============================================================================ ISCApad number 54 November 13th, 2002 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, The regular date of issue is the first week of each month. I apaologize for the delay of this issue. 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 first week of NOVEMBER. TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *Job openings *Journals *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 - 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. -Microsoft, AT&T and KTH Offer Speech Analysis Library For Free via Web Download. Goal is to Provide Tools for Research in Speech Recognition, Analysis and Synthesis (see ISCApad53) -ISCA Grants are available for students attending meetings. Even if no information on the grants is advertised on the conference announcement, students may apply. For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org ============================================================================== JOB OPENINGS ============== -The research center TALP of the Technic University of Catalonia (www.talp.upc.es ) offers 8 grants for Phd students on Human Language Technologies. (see attached file at ISCApad53: TALPoffer.pdf) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Laboratory at the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Director Prof. Ioannis Pitas) invites applications from nationals of European Union Member States (Greek nationals are not eligible) or Associated States or any other State that have resided in the European Union for the last five years prior to the appointment for the following vacant research positions: · Postdoctoral researcher(s) · Predoctoral researcher(s). The applicant can preferably work towards a PhD degree during his/her appointment period. The minimal appointment period is one (1) year. Associated States at the date of this posting are: Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel. The applicants will work in the following topics: · Still image analysis and segmentation · Video parsing, segmentation and representation · Mixed media analysis (image-audio-visual) Experience in related topics is highly desirable, especially for Post Doc applicants. The positions are financed by the European Union Research and Training Network (RTN) "Models for Unified Multimedia Information Retrieval'' (MOUMIR). A very good knowledge of English is highly desirable. Prospective applicants should forward their resume (CV) and recommendation letters by fax or email to Prof. Ioannis Pitas Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki 54006, Box 451 GREECE Tel: +30-31-996304 Fax: +30-31-996304 E-mail: pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postdoc opportunities at ENST, Paris and LORIA, Nancy ENST (Paris) and LORIA/ISA and LORIA/Speech Group are involed in a project aiming at assisting second language acquisition. The first stage of this project is to assemble already developed components, a basic 3D face model, 2D vocal-tract model, and an acoustic model of the vocal tract for speech synthesis, to formulate a coherent speaking head. Two postdoc positions are available (one at ENST/Paris and one at LORIA/Nancy): 1) Adaptation of a geometrical model of a face to a new speaker. 2) The second stage is to study strategies to control the speaking head to produce natural speech sounds and face motion. Scientific requirement: The candidate must have a Ph.D and a strong experience in Computer vision and/or Speech processing (articulatory modeling). The candidate wil be working in collaboration with members of the LORIA/Speech,LORIA/ISA and ENST/TSI group. We expect a post-doctoral researcher to work on his/her preferred topics within the interest of the project. We would also appreciate and value his/her own initiatives in the project. Web pages of the teams involved: http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole http://www.loria.fr/isa http://www.enst.fr/ura/ura-OPERA-3-3.html#Heading117 and http://www.enst.fr/ura/ura-OPERA-3-4.html#Heading123 To know more about this position, contact : .Yves Laprie, LORIA, Nancy, France (Yves.Laprie@loria.fr) for the first topic. .Shinji MAEDA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France (maeda@tsi.enst.fr) for the second topic. To apply: The closing date for applications November 22, 2002. The starting date is between december 2002 and january 2003. Applicants should send a full CV and supporting publications and arrange for two letters of reference to be sent to Yves.Laprie@loria.fr: Yves Laprie LORIA 615 rue du jardin botanique 54602 Villers-lès-Nancy FRANCE Tél : +33 3 83 59 20 36 Duration : one year Gross wage (before-tax): 21000 EUR/year --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSITION IN NATURAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS FOR EDUTAINMENT AT NISLAB, DENMARK A position as assistant professor, associate professor, or research assistant with particular emphasis on advanced prototype research and development is available at the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab), the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The position is for one year initially and is extensible for another two years, at least. The successful candidate will join NISLab's interdisciplinary and internationally recognised team in carrying out European collaborative research on the IST/Human Language Technologies leading-edge research project Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment (NICE). The NICE project started in March 2002 and we now want to extend NISLab's development team on the project. NICE aims to develop natural, fun and rich communication between humans and characters in a computer game. The communication combines spoken domain-oriented conversation and 2D gesture input into a 3D dynamic graphics virtual world inhabited by the fairy-tale author H. C. Andersen and animated characters from his fairy-tale universe. NISLab develops the NICE system for English and the chosen applicant will participate in specifying, developing in C++, and testing the system's software for handling the conversation between the user and the system. See http://www.nis.sdu.dk/projects/ for information about NICE and other projects at NISLab. The working language at NISLab is English. Applicants should have a PhD degree or a strong Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar disciplines, and good programming skills in C or C++. Experience in system or component development is highly desirable. PhD enrollment at NISLab is possible for very strong candidates. Location of work: NISLab, the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (www.nis.sdu.dk). Odense is about 90 minutes from Copenhagen by road or train and is Denmark's 3rd largest city. SDU has approx. 14.000 students. The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations). Denmark offers a favourable tax reduction for foreign postdocs. Start: As soon as possible. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2002, 12:00 AM. Applications must be submitted to Prof. Dybkjær preferably by email (see contact details below). Applications must include a CV, a list of publications, two references, and the publications to be particularly taken into account by the Selection Committee. You can use most formats for the latter, such as .ps, .pdf, MS Word, html, Latex etc. or just provide a URL for the papers. For more information, please contact by phone or email: Professor Laila Dybkjær NISLab University of Southern Denmark Forskerparken 10 5230 Odense M Denmark Tel. (+45) 65 50 35 53 (direct) Fax (+45) 63 15 72 24 email: laila@nis.sdu.dk URL: http://www.nis.sdu.dk =============================================================================== JOURNALS ============ _ Call for Papers International Journal of Speech Technology Special Issue on Chinese Spoken Language Technology (see ISCApad 53) - This is to remind you that the deadline for paper submission regarding SSPR-2003 is coming soon (December 20th). The tentative program includes: Keynote and Invited talks by *** Prof. B.-H. Juang (Georgia Inst. Tech.) *** Prof. J. Hirschberg (Columbia Univ.) *** Prof. R. Grishman (NYU) *** Prof. J. Tsujii (Univ. Tokyo) *** Prof. A. Waibel (CMU/Carlsruhe Univ.) *** Prof. M. Beckman (Ohio State Univ.) *** Prof. G. Rigoll (Munich Univ. Tech.) and a Panel Discussion by several members of international scientific committees (see below). There is also a plan for a SPECIAL ISSUE of IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing based on the workshop theme (to be published in early 2004). We invite you to participate in this special event. For further details, please visit the workshop Web page: http://www.sspr2003.com (see attached files) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Some coding properties of speech, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 28 October 2002 V. N. Sorokin 2. Age differences in the influence of metrical structure on phonetic identification, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 October 2002 Shari R. Baum 3. Changes in the perception of synthetic nasal consonants as a result of vowel formant manipulations, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 October 2002 Sue Harding and Georg Meyer 4. Relating articulation and acoustics through a sinusoidal description of vocal tract shape, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 October 2002 Hollis L. Fitch, Joseph J. Kupin, Irving J. Kessler and James DeLuci 5. The voicing feature for stop consonants: recognition experiments with continuously spoken alphabets, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2002 Partha Niyogi and Padma Ramesh ============================================================================== FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES ================================ -Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 1-4, 2003, http://www.eurospeech2003.org -ICSLP-2004 , Jeju, KOREA, OCTOBER 5-9, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ext#.doc or ext#.pdf 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. - CANCELED ITRW on Advanced ASR for Telecom Applications Palais des Papes, Avignon, France, 27-29 November 2002 NEW WEBSITE: http://lands.let.kun.nl/SMADA - 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.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ika/ -ITRW NOLISP 03, Le Croisic, France, May 20-23rd , 2003 Non Linear Speech Processing Contact: nolisp03@irisa.fr (see ISCApad 53) -ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems, August 28-31, 2003 Location: Hotel Roc et Neige http://www.cm.be/images/intersoc/Chateau/chateaug.htm Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland http://www.skiswitzerland.com/chateau/chateau.htm Workshop website: http://www.speech.kth.se/error/ (see ISCApad52) - DiSS03 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Gotenburg University, September 2003 (to be convenient for participants to Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva). (see ISCApad52) =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ - Spoken Language Processing, TIFR, India, January 9-11, 2003. Contact persons: Prof. S.S.Agrawal (shyam_agrawal@indiatimes.com) Dr.Samudravijaya K. (speech@tifr.res.in) http://speech.tifr.res.in/wslp -TSD 2003 International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue, September 8 - 11, 2003 (right after Eurospeech 2003) Hotel Gomel, Èeské Budìjovice,Czech Republic http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003/ Contact person: Ms. Helena Benesova University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science Univerzitni 8 CZ - 306 14 PLZEN Czech Republic Tel: (+420 19) 7491 212, 27 62 50 Fax: (+420 19) 7491 213 - MAVEBA 2003, 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications December 10-12, 2003, Firenze, Italy http://www.maveba.org ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== -IEEE Workshop on Model based Processing and Coding of Audio (MPCA 2002) Leuven, BELGIUM, 15 November 2002 http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/mpca/ - 3ème JOURNÉE «TROUBLES D'APPRENTISSAGE DU LANGAGE ORAL ET ÉCRIT», Aix-en-Provence, le 15 novembre 2002 Contact person: Isabelle Marlien (isabelle.marlien@lpl.univ-aix.fr) (see ISCApad 53) - 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) - Call for papers for Workshop on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems April 3-4, 2003 Nagoya, Japan http://akhisar.sdsu.edu/dspincars - EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003 Main conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ Workshops: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops (see attached files incl. cfp for Workshop-06) -HLT-NAACL 2003 (Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics) http://www.hlt-naacl03.org May 27-June 1, 2003 Edmonton, Canada (see ISCApad52) - PROPOR'2003 6th Workshop on Computacional Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken Universidade do Algarve-FCHS, Faro, Portugal June 26-27, 2003 http://www.ualg.pt/propor -Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, July 14-August 22,2003 The Johns Hopkins University Deadline for proposals: October 15, 2002 (see ISCApad52) -XVII International Congress of Linguists, 24-29 July 2003 Prague, Czeck Republic. http://www.cil17.org -15th ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003 http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ Submission deadline: September 15,2002 (see ISCApad49) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------