============================================================================ ISCApad number 63 August 11th, 2003 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, Please find this second holiday issue of ISCApad. The board will be happy to meet you at Eurospeech and your attendance to the General Assembly will be particularly appreciated. Our young student colleagues are welcome at the student reception: please come with your suggestions and criticisms so that we will be able to grow together. The regular date of issue is the first week of each month. Next will be after Eurospeech. Do not forget to send the information you want to display for the members in time to be included (last week of each month). TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *COurses, internships, data bases, softwares *Job openings *Journals and Books *Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) *Future ISCA supported events *Future Speech Science and technology events ============================================================================= ISCA NEWS ========= - General assembly of members at Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva: do not miss this important event in the life of your association that will be followed by the ISCA student reception. -SynSIG questionnaire is still available in the attached files (details in Iscapad 62- July 2003) -New Membership Scheme in 2003. See in ISCAPad 57 or on ISCA Web.(http://www.isca-speech.org) -ISCApad publishes now a list of accepted papers for publication in Speech Communication. These papers can be also viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication. -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 ============================================================================== COURSES, DATABASES, SOFTWARES ============================= -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 =========================================================================== JOB OPENINGS ============ 1._Postdoral and PhD positions at Eurecom at Sophia Antipolis (France) The Department of Multimedia Communications of EURECOM Sophia Antipolis (France: http://www.eurecom.fr) is looking for future participation in the European STREP project DIVINES (currently under negotiation and planned to start in December 2003 for a duration of 3 years) -one post doc student having an excellent experience in signal processing, speech analysis and speech recognition. Post docs candidates should send a copy of their thesis and the name and email-address of their thesis advisor. -one PhD student to work on the analysis and improvement of feature extraction, phonetic and acoustic modeling of speech signal. Collaboration with companies and labs from Italy, Germany, Belgium and France is planned. The candidates should be fluent in english and a basic knowledge of french will help live in France! Please send your application to Professor Chris J. Wellekens, Dpt Multimedia Communications, Institut Eurecom, 2229 route des Crêtes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis, France. Professor Wellekens (http://www.eurecom.fr/~welleken) will attend Eurospeech in Geneva and will be happy to meet candidates. As a member of ISCA board, he will attend the General Assembly and the student reception. 2._Postdoctoral Positions in Multimodal Interaction and Systems Applications are invited from recent PhDs for postdoctoral positions on a new research project that is modeling aspects of multimodal interaction and human performance, as well as designing and prototyping new multimodal systems. Project research areas include user modeling of multimodal interaction, user/system learning and adaptive multimodal processing, collaborative multimodal interaction, multimodal dialogue and processing techniques, mobile and multimodal-multisensor interface design, and other topics. Applicants are encouraged to apply who have a broad interest in issues related to cognitive science and quantitative user modeling, linguistics and natural language processing, machine learning and adaptive interface design, and computational processing and system development of varied multimodal input (e.g., speech, vision, pen). Applicants with experience participating in multidisciplinary team-oriented research also are especially encouraged. This work is being conducted in a state-of-the-art laboratory facility at the Center for Human-Computer Communication (CHCC) at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Priority will be given to applications received by September 1, 2003, although positions will remain open until filled. Postdoctoral salary range and benefits are competitive, and positions are for 1-2 years with renewals possible. To apply, submit a resume, photocopy of graduate transcripts, names and contact information for three (3) references, and a brief statement of research/career interests to: Deb DeShais, Center Administrator Center for Human-Computer Communication (CHCC) Department of Computer Science Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) 20000 N.W. Walker Road Beaverton, Oregon 97006 FAX: (503) 748-1875; Ph: (503) 748-1248 For general CHCC information & publications, see: . For further information or to apply via e-mail, contact: deshais@cse.ogi.edu . Women and minority applicants encouraged to apply. 3._Postdocs at Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding postdoctoral researchers immediately at its Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). Candidates should have previous experience in quantitative approaches to machine learning, speech, language, or other AI domains. Strong computational and mathematical skills are required. CLSP is a leading center for research on speech and language. It specializes in formal and quantitative approaches such as probabilistic modeling, unsupervised machine learning, and grammar formalisms. Our core faculty presently include: Luigi Burzio Cognitive Science Bill Byrne Electrical & Computer Engineering Jason Eisner Computer Science Bob Frank Cognitive Science Fred Jelinek Electrical & Computer Engineering Sanjeev Khudanpur Electrical & Computer Engineering Paul Smolensky Cognitive Science David Yarowsky Computer Science We are looking for postdocs to contribute to one or more of the following long-term projects funded by NSF and/or DoD. Postdocs participating in these highly visible projects can expect to gain considerable research experience in speech and language technology. Speech Recognition * MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives * ASR for Rich Transcription of Conversational Mandarin Machine Translation * Improving Statistical Translation Models Via Text Analyzers Trained from Parallel Corpora Algorithmic Infrastructure * Weighted Dynamic Programming and Finite-State Modeling for Statistical NLP Applicants are invited to email us a CV, a one-page statement of research interests, a list of three references, and a cover letter that briefly summarizes qualifications. Applications may be sent to Sue Porterfield at sec@clsp.jhu.edu (fax to +1 410 516 5050 if email is not possible). Johns Hopkins University is located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Our URL is http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/. ================================================================================= JOURNALS and BOOKS ==================== -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, then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press. The list of papers in press appear and a .pdf file for each paper is available. 1. Boosting and combination of classifiers for natural language call routing systems, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 6 August 2003 Imed Zitouni, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo and Chin-Hui Lee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Quantitative measurement of prosodic strength in Mandarin, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2003 Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Speech emotion recognition using hidden Markov models, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 July 2003 Tin Lay Nwe, Say Wei Foo and Liyanage C. De Silva -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================================== FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES ================================ -Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 1-4, 2003, http://www.eurospeech2003.org (see ISCApad55) see also above CF Demos and CD materials for the Education Arena. -ICSLP-2004 , Jeju, KOREA, OCTOBER 5-9, 2004 -CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the Organization of Interspeech 2007: Eurospeech (see attached files) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. - ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on VOICE QUALITY: FUNCTIONS, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS University of Geneva, 27-29 August 2003 (week before EUROSPEECH03) Organizer: Christophe d'Alessandro LIMSI-CNRS Christophe.D'Alessandro@limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr (see ISCApad58) -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) - ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Audio Visual Speech Processing September 4-7, 2003, St Jorioz France. http://www.icp.inpg.fr/AVSP03/ - DiSS03 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Gotenburg University, September 2003 (to be convenient for participants to Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva). (see ISCApad52) - 2004: A Speaker Odyssey, http://www.odyssey04.org/ UPMadrid 31May/4June 2004 =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ - TSD 2003 International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue, September 8 - 11, 2003 (right after Eurospeech 2003) Hotel Gomel, ½esk? Bud?jovice,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 (see ISCApad55) - 2003 International Workshop on SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM-2003) 27-29 October 2003, Moscow, Russia e-mail: specom2003@linguanet.ru, potapova@linguanet.ru (see ISCApad59) - 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 (see ISCApad54) - Multimodal User Authentication, Santa Barbara, California, USA. December 11-12, 03 http://mmua.cs.ucsb.edu/ - Speech Prosody 2004, the second International Conference on Prosody Date: March 23 (Tuesday) to 26 (Friday), 2004 Venue: Nara New Convention Center, Nara, Japan Contact person: Keikichi HIROSE e-mail: pro-office@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Web: http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2004/ (see ISCApad 56)) - The XXVth Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP) Fes, Morocco, April 19-22 2004. (in conjunction with TALN 2004 (Traitement automatique des langues naturelles)). A call for papers including deadlines will soon circulate. contact: Noel Nguyen (mailto:jep-taln@lpl.univ-aix.fr) URL: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ electronic list: http://mailup.univ-mrs.fr/wws/info/jep-taln (see ISCApad 61) - ICA 2004 International Congress on Acoustics April 4-9, 2004 Kyoto Japan Theme: Acoustic science for quality of life http://www.ica2004.or.jp/ Congress secretariat: Dpt of of Environmental Psychology Graduate School of Human Sciences Osaka University 1-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan Fax: +81 6 6879 8025 Email: secretariat@ica2004.or.jp (see call for papers in attached files) - LREC2004 Lisbon (Portugal) 24-30 May 2004 Chairman: Khaled Choukri choukri@elda.fr http://www.lredc-conf.org (see ISCApad 62 July 2003) ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== -COCOSDA Workshop 2003 - Sunday 31st August 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland In conjunction with EuroSpeech2003: Geneva International Conference Centre (or Centre International de Conférence de Genève (CICG), 15, rue Varembé, 1202 Geneva ) (See ISCApad 62) -2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering Oct 26-29, 2003 Beijing China Submisson deadline June 30, 2003 http://www.cie-china.org/nlpke2003 http://www.caaai.org.cn - 3rd IJCAI Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS August 10, 2003 Acapulco, Mexico http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws-03/ (see ISCApad59) -Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03) Vancouver, BC, Canada November 5-7th, 2003 Further information available at: http://icmi.cs.ucsb.edu Conference Chair: Sharon Oviatt (see ISCAPad57) - 6th NWCL International Conference PROSODY AND PRAGMATICS University of Central Lancashire (Preston) 14 - 16 November 2003 Organized by Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) & Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) (see ISCApad 60) http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk - LangTech 2003 24-25 November 2003 Paris Hotel Meridien Montparnasse http://www.lang-tech.org (see ISCApad 62) - ASRU 2003. Extended DEADLINE for Paper submission is August 8th, 2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. November 30- December4, 2003 http://www.asru2003.org CO-chairs: Jeff Bilmes,, University of Washington Bill Byrne, , Johns Hopkins University - EUSIPCO 2004. 12th European Signal Processing Conference. September 7-10 Vienna, Austria http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004/ Chair: Prof. Wolfgang Mecklenbrauker, Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering Vienna University of Technology Gusshausstrasse 25/389 A-1040 Vienna w.mecklenbraeuker@tuwien.ac.at (see call for papers in attached files) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------