======================================================================= ISCApad number 44 Jan. 14th, 2002 ======================================================================= Dear ISCA members, Here is your first ISCApad 2002. Best wishes for all of you with a lot of fun in research and other speech activities. Concise information is displayed in the body of this mail while detailed information is in the attached files either ext44.doc or ext44.pdf. I draw your attention on 2 calls from HLT2002 for demos AND for papers. The regular date of issue is the first week of each month. Do not forget to send the information you want to display for the members in time to be included (last week of each month). Next issue will appear in the week Feb 4th to 8th . TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *Journals *Job opening *Future events ======================================================================== ISCA NEWS ========= -All members will very soon receive by mail a CD-ROM ISCA (Volume II) containing Proceedings of several ITRW proceedings, the member directory and several informations on ISCA and ISCA activities. - Organizers of ITRW workshops and ISCA and ISCA supported conferences are invited to publish a short report after the event. - Proceedings of the ITRW and ISCA-conferences can be ordered at the secretariat of ISCA info@isca-speech.org. An order form is also available via the ISCA website. - Our Website has been partially damaged by a hacker intrusion. We are working to reload a new and updated version. JOURNALS ======== - Speech Communication Special Issue on Adaptation Methods in Speech Recognition. Submission deadline: March 1st, 2002. Guest editors: Dr Jean Claude Junqua, PSTL, S.Barbara and Prof. Chris Wellekens, Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis (see attached files) -ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) Special Issue on Mobile and adaptive conversational interfaces Submission deadline: June 1st 2002 Gust editors: Sharon Oviatt (oviatt@cse.ogi.edu) and Stephanie Seneff (seneff@s ls.lcs.mit.edu) (see attached files) JOB OPENINGS ============== -ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION at GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, GRAZ, AUSTRIA (see attached files). -RESEARCH POSITIONS IN NATURAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AT NISLAB, DENMARK (see attached files) ======================================================================= FUTURE EVENTS ============= Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements of future events. The full call for participation appears in attached files only once and later referred to a previous issue of ISCApad. See also our Web pages (http://www.isca-speech.org) on conferences and workshops. -ICON-2002: INDIAN CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AU-KBC Centre, Chennai, India March 1-3, 2002 Anna University, KBC Centre, Chennai Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad National Centre for Software Technology, Mumbai (see ISCApad43 attached files) -HLT 2002 March 24-27, 2002 Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, California http://hlt2002.org. (see ISCApad42 and attached files to this mail for 2 announcements) -InSTIL 2002 Symposium http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil Speech Technology in the Learning and Assistive Interface San Diego State University 25-26 March 2002 Advance Notice, Preliminary Registration and Call for Papers InSTIL is a Special Interest Group of CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA and an affiliate of IALLT (see ISCApad41) -ITRW on TEMPORAL INTEGRATION IN THE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH Aix-en-Provence, France, 8-10 April 2002 mailto:tips@lpl.univ-aix.fr http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips (see ISCApad40) -Voice World Europe 9-11 April 2002 Olympia Conference Centre London, UK http://www.voice-world.com/voice2002EU -Speech Prosody 2002 11-13 April 2002, Aix en Provence (France) http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/sp2002/ deadline for 4 page Papers 7 December, 2001 -Pre-conference Workshop at CHI2002 (conference on Human-Computer Interaction), "Robustness in Speech Based Interfaces: Sharing the Tricks of the Trade" Sunday April 21,2002 http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/chi-ws-02/cfp.shtml (see ISCApad43 attached files) -The Fifth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2002 Oriental COCOSDA Workshop 2002 Hua Hin, Prachuapkirikhan, Thailand, 9-11 May 2002 http://kind.siit.tu.ac.th/snlp-o-cocosda2002/ or http://www.links.nectec.or.th/itech/snlp-o-cocosda2002/ (see ISCApad40) -International Conference on Audio,Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2002) Orlando (Florida) May 13-17. Chairman: Fred Taylor (University of Florida Techn.Chairmen: Jose Principe (University of Florida) and Herve Bourlard (IDIAP/ EPFL, Switzerland). http://www.icassp2002.com -First International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding ScaNaLU 2002 May 23-24 2002, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany http://www.eml.org/SCANALU (see ISCApad43 attached files) -LREC 2002 Las Palmas, 27th May 2002-2nd June 2002 (see ISCApad42) http://www.lrec-conf.org - ITRW on MULTI-MODAL DIALOGUE IN MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS(IDS'02) June 17-21, 2002 , Kloster Irsee, Germany http://www.sigmedia.org/ids02 (see ISCApad41) -NATO Advanced study institute on Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception June 23-July 6, 2002, Il Cioccio, Italy Organizing Committee: Pierre L. Divenyi, Director Klára Vicsi, Co-Director (see ISCApad42) -TALN 2002 Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles Palais des Congres de Nancy June 24 - 27 2002 organized by the ATILF Laboratory and the LORIA http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN taln2002@loria.fr (see ISCApad43 attached files) - XXlVèmes Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP 2002) 24-27 juin 2002 NANCY, France Organisées par le LORIA et l'AFCP Co-organisées avec TALN http://www.loria.fr/projets/JEP/ Appel a communications reporte au 11 fevrier 2002. -COLING-2002: Call for Papers 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August, 24 - September, 1, 2002 Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and Tsing Hua University The International Committee on Computational Linguistics URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ (see ISCApad43 attached files) -7th International Workshop Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2002) ROBUST SPEECH UNDERSTANDING (RSU)problem and some closely connected aspects. 02-05 September 2002 St.-Petersburg, Russia Organized by St-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) E-mail: specom@mail.iias.spb.su http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/eng/structure/speech.htm (see ISCApas41) -EUSIPCO-2002 XI European Signal Processing Conference September 3-6, 2002 Toulouse, France http://www.tesa.prd.fr/eusipco2002/ (see ISCApad42) -Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002 (see ISCApad43) http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/ -ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language Technology September 14-15, 2002 Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002/ (see ISCApad42 and attached files to this mail ) -3rd Biennial ICVPB: International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (in conjunction with the 7th ICSLP) Denver, USA, 14-16 September 2002 http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (see ISCApad43) -7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002) September 16 - 20, 2002 Adams Mark Hotel and Conference Center Denver, Colorado http://www.icslp2002.org (see ISCApad43) - ITRW on Advanced ASR for Telecom Applications Palais des Papes, Avignon, France, 27-29 November 2002 Provisional website: http://smada.research.kpn.com (Click on Events and Activities) (see ISCApad40) - MMSP-02 (IEEE Signal Processing Society / ISCA) 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, December 9-11, 2002 http://mmsp02.njit.edu (see ISCApad40) ======================================================================== Professor Christian J. Wellekens Tel: +33 (0) 4 93 00 26 28 Dpt Multimedia Communications Secr:+33 (0) 4 93 00 26 33 EURECOM,2229 route des Cretes BP193 Fax: +33 (0) 4 93 00 26 27 F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~welleken