============================================================================ ISCApad number 50 July 8th, 2002 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, 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 second week of August. TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *Journals *Job openings *Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) *Future ISCA supported events *Future Speech Science and technology events ============================================================================= ISCA NEWS ========= -Information on on-going theses could be very useful for thesis supervizors, researchers as well as PhD students.A list of speech theses is available at http://HLTheses.elsnet.org ( see below the Call for Submissions of HLT) - ISCApad publish now a list of accepted papers for publication in Speech Communication. These papers can be viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HLTheses: Info and Call for Submissions --------------------------------------- OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT -------------------- HLTheses is a web-site devoted to current research in Human Language Technology (HLT). It is an ELSNET initiative, co-sponsored by ISCA and EACL, aiming to aid HLT researchers and promote their research by providing information on relevant PhDs worldwide. HLTheses contains extended PhD abstracts (completed and on-going), CVs and contact information of PhD authors and researchers. The site intends to reference all PhD theses related to HLT worldwide, thus serving as a state-of-the-art guide and a place where researchers can find others who work in similar areas. You can visit the site at http://HLTheses.elsnet.org Presently, only a small number of abstracts are available for viewing on the HTLheses, but we expect it to increase very soon. CALL FOR PhD ABSTRACTS ---------------------- HLTheses invites all researchers holding or pursuing a PhD in any area of Human Language Technology (HLT) to submit extended abstracts of their PhD theses (and brief CVs) in order to be listed in the HLTheses repository. The PhDs need not be completed. On-going PhD abstracts are equally eligible. PhDs presented in HLTheses are expected to create a great impact, since HLTheses will initiate a large promotional campaign. HLTheses intends to provide additional annual printed volumes containing the theses completed every year, sorted by research area. Detailed submission information is available at: http://hltheses.elsnet.org/information/subminfo/howsubmthes.htm Please feel free to contact me if you need any additional information. Best regards, Nikos Fakotakis Maria Vasiliou HLTheses Editor-in-Chief HLTheses Staff Member ============================================================================== JOURNALS ============ -Papers accepted for future publication in Speech Communication. Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications and then on Speech Communication. The list of Papers in press appear and a .pdf file for each paper is available. 1. Evaluation of an ERB frequency scale noise reduction for hearing aids: a comparative study, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 18 June 2002 Thomas Fillon and Jacques Prado 2. A theoretical comparison of information transmission in the peripheral auditory system: normal and impaired frequency discrimination, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 18 June 2002 Lisa G. Huettel and Leslie M. Collins 3. Spectral contrast enhancement: algorithms and comparisons, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 Jun Yang, Fa-Long Luo and Arye Nehorai 4. Microphone arrays for hearing aids: an overview, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 Bernard Widrow and Fa-Long Luo 5. Robust compensation with adaptive feedback cancellation in hearing aids, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 Boaz Rafaely, Ngwa A. Shusina and Joanna L. Hayes 6. Introduction to the Special Issue on Speech Processing for Hearing Aids, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 Fa-Long Luo, Bernard Widrow and Chaslav Pavlovic 7. Speech enhancement using sub-band adaptive Griffiths-Jim signal processing, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 D. R. Campbell and P. W. Shields 8. Band-limited feedback cancellation with a modified filtered-X LMS algorithm for hearing aids, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 June 2002 Hsiang-Feng Chi, Shawn X. Gao, Sigfrid D. Soli and Abeer Alwan 9. Towards improving speech detection robustness for speech recognition in adverse conditions, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 9 June 2002 Lamia Karray and Arnaud Martin =============================================================================== JOB OPENINGS ================ -Senior speech scientists and tenure track assistant professor positions available at IDIAP Martigny Switzerland http://www.idiap.ch/cgi-bin/w3-msql/open-positions/open-positionsNF.html and http://admwww.epfl.ch/pres/signal_inf.html for further information. ============================================================================== FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKHOPS (ITRW) ================================================== 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. - ITRW on Advanced ASR for Telecom Applications Palais des Papes, Avignon, France, 27-29 November 2002 NEW WEBSITE: http://lands.let.kun.nl/SMADA (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) -ITRW on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval Macau, prior to ICASSP 2003 in Hong Kong. April 4-5, 2003 (see ISCApad49) http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/MSDR -ISCA and IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, Tokyo, April 14th-16th ,2003 (after ICASSP 2003 in Hong Kong). http://www.crl.go.jp/pub/orc-speech/sspr03.html (see ISCApad49) - First ITRW on AUDITORY QUALITY OF SYSTEMS Akademie Mont-Cenis, Germany, 23-25 April 2003 Contact person: Ute Jekosch Institute of Communication Acoustics Ruhr-University Bochum D-44780 Bochum, Germany Email: jekosch@ika.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Phone: +49 234 322 2495 Fax: +49 234 321 4165 Web: http://www.ika.ruhr-uni-bochum.de =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ -3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 11 and 12, 2002 Just following the 40th Anniversary ACL. (see ISCApad46) -10th ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication. Evaluation and Assessment of Text and Speech Systems Odense, Denmark, 15-26 July 2002 http://www.summerschool2002.nis.sdu.dk (see ISCApad47) - ICSLP 2002: SATELLITE WORKSHOPS: * ICVPB: Workshop on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Theme: physiology research on the larynx and voice Dates: Sept. 13-16, 2002 *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 ISCApad47) * IEEE 2002 WORKSHOP ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS (see ISCApad 45) 11-13 September 2002, Santa Monica, CA Dedicated to the memory of Michael Macon Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society http://www.research.att.com/conf/ttsworkshop/ for more information, please see: http://www.icslp2002.org/information/satellite_workshops.html -International Symposium on chinese spoken language, Taiwan, August 23-24,2002. A satellite event of Coling 2002 (see ISCApad49) http://www.cm.nctu.edu.tw -7th ICSLP 2002 (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing) September 16 - 20, 2002 Adams Mark Hotel and Conference Center Denver, Colorado http://www.icslp2002.org (see ISCApad43) -At ICSLP 2002, Special session on "NOISE ROBUST RECOGNITION - Robust Algorithms and a Comparison of their Performance on the "Aurora 2 & 3" Databases" ICSLP Special Session: day TBD in 17-20 Sept 2002 http://www.icslp2002.org/papers/index.html (see ISCApad 45) -International Symposium on Past, Present and Future of the Speech Transmission Index honouring the work of Herman Steeneken and Tammo Houtgast 24 and 25 October 2002, Soesterberg, The Netherlands http://wwww.sti-symposium.org (see ISCApad46) - COST275 Workshop on " The Advent of Biometrics on the Internet" Rome, Italy, 7-8 November 2002 http://www.fub.it/cost275 Responsible: Aladdin Ariyaeeinia, Herts University, UK (see ISCApad49) ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== -Final Call for Papers: Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2002) NOTE: Special Theme on Generation for Spoken Language PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2002. Simultaneous submission to other conferences permissible. Conference web site: http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ (see ISCApad45) -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) -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 ISCApad41) -EDILOG 2002 Call for papers SIXTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE Edinburgh University Sept 4th-6th 2002 http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: May 10th Acceptance notice: July 5th Final version due: August 9th Conference: Sept 4th-6th (see ISCApad46) -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 attached files and ISCApad47) http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/ -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) -LangTech 2002 , technologies of spoken and written language. Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin, Sept 26-27,2002 (see ISCApad47) -UKROBRAZ-2002 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT The Sixth All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (UKROBRAZ-2002) The Conference will be held from the 8 to 12 of October 2002 in NAS Cybernetics Centre (40 Academician Hlushkov Ave, Kyjiv 03680, Ukraine) Deadline 1st August 2002 (see ISCApad46) - WECOL 2002 Western Conference on Linguistics UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER November 1-3, 2002 Abstract deadline: Friday, May 3, 2002 (see ISCApad48) http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/wecol2002.htm -8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Center for applied linguistics Santiago de Cuba January 20-24, 2003 Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu (see ISCApad46) -XVII International Congress of Linguists, 24-27 July 2003 Prague, Czeck Republic. http://www.cil17.org -ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003 http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/defaultvella.htm Deadline: September 15,2002 (see ISCApad49) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------