============================================================================ ISCApad number 65 October,13th 2003 ============================================================================ 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). 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 ========= -Bid for Interspeech/Eurospeech 2007 Organization of Interspeech 2007: Eurospeech CALL FOR PROPOSALS Individuals or organisations interested in organizing Eurospeech 2007 should submit by 31 October 2003 a brief preliminary proposal, including: * The name and position of the proposed general chair and other principal organizers. * The proposed period in September 2007 when the conference would be held * The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference and any other sponsoring institutions * The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity) * Information on transportion and housing for conference participants * Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental) * The commercial conference organizer (if any) * A preliminary budget Guidelines for the preparation of the proposal are available at . Additional information can be provided by Julia Hirschberg, conf@isca-speech.org . Proposals should be submitted by email to the above address. Candidates fulfilling basic requirements will be asked to submit a detailed proposal by 29 February 2004. Julia Hirschberg Columbia University Department of Computer Science 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, M/C 0401 450 CS Building New York, NY 10027 email: julia@cs.columbia.edu phone: (212) 939-7114 FAX: (212) 666-0140 AT&T Labs - Research Shannon Laboratory, Rm. E165 180 Park Avenue Florham Park NJ 07932 email: julia@research.att.com phone: (973) 360-8330 fax: (973) 360-8092 -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 -Members of AFCP can freely become ISCA members. Details on http://www.isca-speech.org Membership or http://www.AFCP_parole.org -Nominees Sought for National Science Foundation Distinguished Teaching Scholars Awards The National Science Foundation Director’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS) recognizes and rewards six to eight individuals annually who are both meritorious scholars (including those in the social and behavioral sciences) and exemplary teachers as evidenced by their ability to integrate their research and educational activities and to approach research and education in a scholarly manner. This year, for the first time, the program involves a two-step process. Nominations are due November 19, 2003, for the first step. A select group of individuals from the first round nominees will be invited to submit proposals by February 25, 2004. The URL for the solicitation is: . For more information, please contact: Herbert Levitan telephone: (703) 292-4627 email: hlevitan@nsf.gov ============================================================================== 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 (have also a look at http://www;isca-speech.org Jobs as well as http://www.elsnet.org Jobs) ============ 1. TWO POSITIONS at Institut Eurecom . Department: Multimedia Communications . Description: Eurecom () is an international teaching and research institute , founded in 1991 as a joint initiative by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST- Paris). It welcomes students from several engineering schools and universities ENST Paris, ENST Brittany, INT Evry, EPFL, ETHZ (Zurich), Helsinki University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino...They receive an education in Communications Systems (Networking, Multimedia, Security, Mobile Communications, Web services...) Professors, lecturers and PhD students conduct research in these domains. Speech processing is under the responsibility of Professor Chris Wellekens in the Dpt Multimedia Communications. Spoken languages at the Institute are french and english for the lectures. English is the usual language for research exchanges. Speech research involves speaker identification using speaker clustering or eigenvoices, phonemic variabilities of lexicons, optimal feature extraction, Bayesian networks and variational techniques, navigation in audio databases (segmentation in speakers, wordspotting,...) First Job description: POST DOC or RESEARCH ENGINEER A European project STREP/ 6th FP in the last phase of negotiation with the Commission. Eight labs and companies are partners: Multitel (B), Eurecom (F), France Telecon R/D (F), University of Oldenburg (D), Babeltechnologies (B), Loquendo (I), Politecnico di Torino (I), LIA (F). The aim of the project is to analyse the reasons why recognizers are unable to reach the human recognition rates even in the case of lack of semantic content. All weaknesses will be analyzed at the level of feature extraction, phone and lexical models. Focus will be put on intrinsic variabilities of speech in quiet and noisy environment as well as in read and spontaneous speech. The analysis will not be restricted to tests on several databases with different features and models but will go into the detailed behavior of the algorithms and models. Suggestions of new solutions will arise and be experimented. The duration of the project is for 3 years. The Speech group is looking for a Post-doc student who acquired a hands-on practice of speech processing. He/she must have an excellent practice of signal and speech analysis as well as a good knowledge of optimal classification using Bayesian criteria. He/she must be open-minded to original solutions proposed after a rigourous analysis of the low level phenomena in speech processing. Fluency in english is mandatory (write, understand and speak). He/she should be able to represent Eurecom at the periodical meetings. Ability to work in a small team is also required. The project is planned to start in January 2004. Application. -send a detailed resume (give details on your activity since your PhD graduation) -send a copy of your thesis report (either as a a printed document or as a CDROM) DO NOT attach your thesis in an e-mail! -send a copy of your diploma -send the names and email addresses of two referees. -send the list of your publications (you must have several) to Professor Chris J. Wellekens, Dpt of Multimedia Communications, 2229 route des Cretes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France 2nd Job description at Eurecom: Ph.D. STUDENT A European project STREP/ 6th FP in the last phase of negotiation with the Commission. Eight labs and companies are partners: Multitel (B), Eurecom (F), France Telecon R/D (F), University of Oldenburg (D), Babeltechnologies (B), Loquendo (I), Politecnico di Torino (I), LIA (F). The aim of the project is to analyse the reasons why recognizers are unable to reach the human recognition rates even in the case of lack of semantic content. All weaknesses will be analyzed at the level of feature extraction, phone and lexical models. Focus will be put on intrinsic variabilities of speech in quiet and noisy environment as well as in read and spontaneous speech. The analysis will not be restricted to tests on several databases with different features and models but will go into the detailed behavior of the algorithms and models. Suggestions of new solutions will arise and be experimented. The duration of the project is for 3 years. The Speech group is looking for a top level PhD student who has a good knowledge of speech processing. Preference is for a student who worked in speech in his/her predoctoral school or worked on a speech project for his graduation project. He/she must have an excellent practice of signal and speech analysis as well as a good knowledge of optimal classification using Bayesian criteria. Fluency in english is mandatory (write, understand and speak). Ability to work in a small team is also required. The project is planned to start in January 2004. Application. -send a detailed resume -send a copy of your graduation project report or Master thesis (either as a printed document or as a CDROM) DO NOT attach your report in an e-mail! -send a copy of your diploma -send the names and email addresses of two referees. -send the list of your publications (if any) to Professor Chris J. Wellekens, Dpt of Multimedia Communications, 2229 route des Cretes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, FRANCE Additional informations Contact Professor Chris Wellekens at christian.wellekens@eurecom.fr . () 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 metropolitan area. Priority will be given to applications received by July 1st, 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, xerox of graduate transcripts, names and contact information for 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) 20,000 N.W. Walker Road Beaverton, Oregon 97006 FAX: (503) 748-1875; Ph: (503) 748-1248 For general CHCC information & publications, see: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CHCC. For further information or to apply via email, 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/. 4. The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Lectureship in Speech Technology Job Description You will be highly-qualified and have expertise in spoken language processing, particularly speech recognition, speech synthesis or speech signal processing. You should demonstrate a world-class research record and both interest and ability in teaching. You will be expected to develop and participate in research activities at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, which is a collaborative activity of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the School of Informatics. Informal enquiries to Professor Steve Renals (s.renals@ieee.org) or (srenals@inf.ed.ac.uk), tel. 0131 650 4589. Further particulars are available from http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=2187 or from: Human Resources The University of Edinburgh 9 - 16 Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1HT e-mail: jobs@ed.ac.uk telephone: +44 (0) 131 650 9601 Please quote Ref: 312684 ================================================================================= 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. A score function of splitting band for two-band speech model, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 September 2003 Eun-Kyoung Kim, Woo-Jin Han and Yung-Hwan Oh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Modification of pitch using DCT in the source domain, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 September 2003 R. Muralishankar, A. G. Ramakrishnan and P. Prathibha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Topic transitions and durational prosody in reading aloud: production and modeling, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 3 October 2003 Caroline L. Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Detecting and extracting named entities from spontaneous speech in a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue context: How May I Help You?sm,tm, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 23 September 2003 Frédéric Béchet, Allen L. Gorin, Jeremy H. Wright and Dilek Hakkani Tür -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. A comprehensive study of task-specific adaptation of speech recognition models, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Ananth Sankar and Ashvin Kannan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Piecewise-linear transformation-based HMM adaptation for noisy speech, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Zhipeng Zhang and Sadaoki Furui ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Word perception in fast speech: artificially time-compressed vs. naturally produced fast speech, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Esther Janse -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. A method for analysing the perceptual relevance of glottal-pulse parameter variations, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 R. van Dinther, A.Kohlrausch and R. Veldhuis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Noise adaptive speech recognition based on sequential noise parameter estimation, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Kaisheng Yao, Kuldip K. Paliwal and Satoshi Nakamura -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Generating non-native pronunciation variants for lexicon adaptation, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Silke Goronzy, Stefan Rapp and Ralf Kompe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. A fast HMM match algorithm for very large vocabulary speech recognition, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2003 Alexander Seward -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Quantitative measurement of prosodic strength in Mandarin, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 September 2003 Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. Maximum a posteriori adaptation of HMM parameters based on speaker space projection, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 September 2003 Dong Kook Kim and Nam Soo Kim -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 September 2003 Jerome R. Bellegarda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. Jacobian environmental adaptation, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 September 2003 Christophe Cerisara, Luca Rigazio and Jean-Claude Junqua -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. A score function of splitting band for two-band speech model, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 September 2003 Eun-Kyoung Kim, Woo-Jin Han and Yung-Hwan Oh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Changes in syllable magnitude and timing due to repeated correction, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2002 Caroline Menezes, Bryan Pardo, Donna Erickson and Osamu Fujimura ============================================================================== FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES ================================ -Interspeech (ICSLP)-2004 , Jeju, KOREA, OCTOBER 5-9, 2004 -ICASSP 2004, Montreal, CANADA, MAY 17-21, 2004 -Interspeech (Eurospeech)-2005, Lisbon, Portugal,September 4-8, 2005 -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. - 2004: A Speaker Odyssey, http://www.odyssey04.org/ UPMadrid 31May/4June 2004 - Affective Dialog Systems (ADS'04) Kloster Irsee, Germany June 14-16, 2004 http://www.sigmedia.org/ADS04 (see attached document) -NOLISP'05: Non linear speech processing, April 19-22 April 2005, Barcelona, Spain organized by Cost 277 Contact person: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (faundez@eupmt.es) (see attached documents ) =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ - 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) - LangTech 2003 24-25 November 2003 Paris Hotel Meridien Montparnasse http://www.lang-tech.org (see ISCApad 62) - 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)) - International Symposium on Tonal Aspect of Languages: Emphasis on Tone Languages (Tonal Symposium China 2004), March 28-30, 2004, Beijing, R.P.China A satellite of Speech Prosody 2004 Organizer: The Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Symposium website: http:\\www.tal2004.com - 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 ISCApad 63) - LREC2004 Lisbon (Portugal) 24-30 May 2004 Chairman: Khaled Choukri choukri@elda.fr http://www.lredc-conf.org (see ISCApad 62) ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== -2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering Oct 26-29, 2003 Beijing China Submission deadline June 30, 2003 http://www.cie-china.org/nlpke2003 http://www.caaai.org.cn -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 - Seminar of AFCP/I3 « Journée Parole Expressive » Expressive Speech Workshop Official language is french. English is subsidiary. Salle des Conférences - Maison des Langues Université Stendhal - Domaine Universitaire - Grenoble - France 20 novembre 2003 (see attached document) - 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 - The 1st International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing organized by the Asia Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP) Website: www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/ Main Conference: March 22-24, 2004 Workshops: March 25, 2004 Sanya, Hainan island, China http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/ (see attached document) - HLT/NAACL 2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics http://www.hlt-naacl04.org May 2-7, 2004 Boston, Mass USA (see ISCApad 64) - EUSIPCO 2004. 12th European Signal Processing Conference. September 7-10, 2004 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 ISCApad 63) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------