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An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on NON-LINEAR SPEECH PROCESSING (NOLISP'09)
25/06/2009 - DeadLine: 2009-03-15
Vic Catalonia Espagne
http://nolisp2009.uvic.cat
After the success of NOLISP'03 held in Le Croisic, NOLISP'05 in Barcelona and NOLISP'07 in Paris, we are pleased to present NOLISP'09 to be held at the University of Vic (Catalonia, Spain) on June 25-27, 2009. The workshop will feature invited lectures by leading researchers as well as contributed talks. The purpose of NOLISP'09 is to present and discuss novel ideas, works and results related to alternative techniques for speech processing, which depart from mainstream approaches. Prospective authors are invited to submit a 3 to 4 page paper proposal in English, which will be evaluated by the Scientific C! ommittee. Final papers will be due one month after the workshop to be included in the CD-ROM proceedings. Contributions are expected (but not restricted to) the following areas: Non-linear approximation and estimation Non-linear oscillators and predictors Higher-order statistics Independent component analysis Nearest neighbours Neural networks Decision trees Non-parametric models Dynamics of non-linear systems Fractal methods Chaos modelling Non-linear differential equations All fields of speech processing are targeted by the workshop, namely: Speech production, speech analysis and modelling, speech coding, speech synthesis, speech recognition, speaker identification/verification, speech enhancement/separation, speech perception, etc. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science (LNCS). LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form. All contributions should be original, and must not have been previously published, nor be under review for presentation elsewhere. A special issue of Speech Communication (Elsevier) on “Non-Linear and Non-Conventional Speech Processing” will be also published after the workshop Detailed instructions for submission to NOLISP'09 and further informations will be available at the conference Web site (http://nolisp2009.uvic.cat).
IMPORTANT DATES:
* March 15, 2009 - Submission (full papers)
* April 30, 2009 - Notification of acceptance
* September 30, 2009 - Final (revised) paper

Chiba, Japan
Conference Website
ISCA is pleased to announce that INTERSPEECH 2010 will take place in Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, September 26-30, 2010. The event will be chaired by Keikichi Hirose (Univ. Tokyo), and will have as a theme "Towards Spoken Language Processing for All - Regardless of Age, Health Conditions, Native Languages, Environment, etc."

Interspeech 2011

Palazzo dei Congressi,  Italy, August 27-31, 2011.

Organizing committee

Piero Cosi (General Chair),

Renato di Mori (General Co-Chair),

Claudia Manfredi (Local Chair),

Roberto Pieraccini (Technical Program Chair),

Maurizio Omologo (Tutorials),

Giuseppe Riccardi (Plenary Sessions).

More information www.interspeech2011.org

SENIOR STAFF OPENING AT THE ICSI SPEECH GROUP

The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) invites applications for a senior staff position in its speech research group. Successful applicants must have significant post-PhD experience, and a world-class research reputation.  Candidates must also have demonstrated ability to grow and manage a strong research effort. A successful track record with obtaining funding for the chosen area is essential. 

The ICSI Speech Group (including its predecessor, the ICSI Realization Group) has been a source of novel approaches to speech processing since 1988. ICSI’s speech group is well known for its efforts in speech recognition (particularly in neural network approaches and novel forms of feature extraction), as well as in speaker recognition, diarization, and speech understanding. It has close ties to research efforts in machine translation on the Berkeley campus, and to the STAR lab at SRI for the complete range of its research. It also works closely with several European labs, particularly IDIAP in Switzerland and to the University of Edinburgh.

ICSI is an independent not-for-profit Institute located a few blocks from the Berkeley campus of the University of California. It is closely affiliated with the University, and particularly with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department. Students, faculty, and administrative colleagues from the University all play a key role at the Institute. In addition to its Speech Group, areas of current strength in the Institute include: Artificial Intelligence (primarily in natural language), Internet research (primarily in architecture and internet security), and Algorithms (primarily associated with problems in bioinformatics and networking). We also have new activities in Computer Vision and Computer Architecture. See http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu to learn more about ICSI.

Applications should include a cover letter, a vita, the names of at least 3 references (with both postal and email addresses), and a research statement. Applications should be sent by email to speechjob@icsi.berkeley.edu and by postal mail to

Nelson Morgan (re Senior Search)

ICSI

1947 Center Street, Suite 600

Berkeley, CA 94704

ICSI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.

12 PhD Positions and 2 Post Doc Positions available in

the Marie Curie International Training Network on

Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning (SCALE)

SCALE is a cooperative project between

·        IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, Switzerland (Prof Herve Bourlard)

·        Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Prof Lou Boves, Dr Louis ten Bosch, Dr-ir Bert Cranen, Dr O. Scharenborg)

·        RWTH Aachen, Germany (Prof Hermann Ney, Dr Ralf Schlüter)

·        Saarland University, Germany (Prof Dietrich Klakow, Dr John McDonough)

·        University of Edinburgh, UK (Prof Steve Renals, Dr Simon King, Dr Korin Richmond, Dr Joe Frankel)

·        University of Sheffield, UK (Prof Roger Moore, Prof Phil Green, Dr Thomas Hain, Dr Guido Sanguinetti) .

Companies like Motorola or Philips Speech Recognition Systems/Nuance are associated partners of the program.

Each PhD position is funded for three years and degrees can be obtained from the participating academic institutions. 

Distinguishing features of the cooperation include:

·        Joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from two partner institutions

·        While staying with one institution for most of the time, the program includes a stay at a second partner institution either from academic or industry for three to nine month 

·        An intensive research exchange program between all participating institutions

PhD and Post Doc projects will be in the area of

·        Automatic Speech Recognition

·        Machine learning

·        Speech Synthesis

·        Signal Processing

·        Human speech recognition

The salary of a PhD position is roughly 33.800€ per year. There are additional mobility (up to 800€/month) and travel allowances (yearly allowance). Applicants should hold a strong university degree which would entitle them to embark on a doctorate (Masters/diploma or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, and should be in the first four years of their research careers. As the project is funded by a EU mobility scheme, there are also certain mobility requirements.

Each Post Doc position is funded for two years. The salary is approximately 52000€ per year. Applicants must have a doctoral degree at the time of recruitment or equivalent research experience. The research experience may not exceed 5 years at the time of appointment.

Women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadlines for applications:

January 1, 2009

April 1, 2009

July 1, 2009

September 1, 2009.

After each deadline all submitted applications will be reviewed and positions awarded until all positions are filled.

Applications should be submitted at http://www.scale.uni-saarland.de/ .

To be fully considered, please include:

- a curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, disciplines covered

(e.g. list of courses ), publications, and other relevant experience

- a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or thesis,

preferably in English)

- copies of high school and university certificates, and transcripts

- two references (e-mailed directly to the SCALE office

(Diana.Schreyer@LSV.Uni-Saarland.De) before the deadline)

- a statement of research interests, previous knowledge and activities

in any of the relevant research areas.

In case an application can only be submitted by regular post, it should

be sent to:

SCALE office

Diana Schreyer

Spoken Language Systems, FR 7.4

C 71 Office 0.02

Saarland University

P.O. Box 15 11 50

D-66041 Saarbruecken

Germany

If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow

(Dietrich.Klakow@LSV.Uni-Saarland.De).

Assistant Professor Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago  ########################################################  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (http://www.tti-c.org) is a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute, dedicated to basic research and graduate education in computer science.  TTI-C opened for operation in 2003 and by 2010 plans to have 12 tenured and tenure track faculty and 18 research (3-year) faculty. Regular faculty will have a teaching load of at most one course per year and research faculty will have no teaching responsibilities.  Applications are welcome in all areas of computer science, but TTI-C is currently focusing on a number of areas including speech and language processing.  For all positions we require a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. candidacy, with the degree conferred prior to date of hire.  Applications received after December 31 may not get full consideration.  Applications can be submitted online at http://www.tti-c.org/facultyapplication

Poste d'ingénieur CDD : environnement intelligent

Ingenieur - CDD

DeadLine: 15/02/2008

olivier.pietquin@supelec.fr

http://ims.metz.supelec.fr/spip.php?article99

Un poste d'ingénieur CDD de 18 mois est ouvert sur le campus de Metz de Supélec. Le candidat s’intégrera au sein de l’équipe « Information, Multimodalité & Signal » (http://ims.metz.supelec.fr). Cette équipe composée de 15 personnes est active dans les domaines du traitement numérique du signal et de l’information (traitement statistique du signal, apprentissage numérique, méthodes d’inspiration biologique), de la représentation des connaissances (fouille de données, analyse et apprentissage symbolique) et du calcul intensif et distribué. Le poste vise un profil permettant l’implémentation matérielle intégrée des méthodes développées au sein de l’équipe dans des applications liées aux environnements intelligents ainsi que leur maintenance. Le campus de Metz s’est en effet doté d’une plateforme en vraie grandeur reproduisant une pièce intelligente intégrant caméras, microphones, capteurs infrarouges, interfaces homme-machine (interface vocale, interface cerveau-machine), robo!

 ts et moyens de diffusion d’information. Il s’agira de réaliser une plateforme intégrée permettant de déployer des démonstrations rapidement dans cet environnement et de les maintenir.

Profil recherché :

– diplôme d’ingénieur en informatique, ou équivalent universitaire

– expérience de travail dans le cadre d’équipes multidisciplinaires,

– une bonne pratique de l’anglais est un plus.

Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur le site de l'équipe (http://ims.metz.supelec.fr)

Faire acte de candidature (CV+lettre) auprès de O. Pietquin : olivier.pietquin@supelec.fr.

http://gdr-isis.org/rilk/gdr/Kiosque/poste.php?jobid=3010

2009 PhD Research Fellowships 

=============================

The Adaptive Multimodal Information and  Interface  Research Lab

(casa.disi.unitn.it) at University of Trento (Italy) has several

PhD Research fellowships in the following areas:

                Statistical Machine Translation                

                Natural Language Processing    

                Automatic Speech Recognition

                Machine Learning

                Spoken/Multimodal Conversational Systems

We are looking for students with _excellent_ academic records

and relevant technical background. Students with EE, CS Master degrees

( or equivalent ) are welcome as well other related disciplines will

be considered. Prospective students are encouraged to look at the lab

website to search for current and past research projects.

PhD research fellowships benefits are described in the graduate school

website (http://ict.unitn.it/disi/edu/ict).

The  applicants should be fluent in _English_. The Italian language

competence is optional and applicants are encouraged to acquire

this skill during training. All applicants should have very good

programming skills. University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

The selection of candidates will be open until positions are filled.

Interested applicants should send their CV along with their

statement of research interest, transcript records and three reference

letters to :

                Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

        Email: riccardi@disi.unitn.it

-------------------

About University of Trento and Information Engineering and Computer

 Science Department

The University of Trento is constantly ranked as

 premiere Italian graduate university institution (see www.disi.unitn.it).

Please visit the DISI Doctorate school website at http://ict.unitn.it/edu/ict

DISI Department

DISI has a strong focus on Interdisciplinarity with professors from

different faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical

Engineering, Economics, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science)

 with international background.

DISI aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the

various research areas in order to develop innovative methods and

technologies, applications and advanced services.

English is the official language.

--

Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

Marie Curie Excellence Leader

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

University of Trento

Room D11, via Sommarive 14

38050 Povo di Trento, Italy

tel  : +39-0461 882087

email: riccardi@dit.unitn.it

The Evaluation and Language Distribution Agency (ELDA) is offering a 6-month to 1-year internship in Human Language Technology for the Arabic language, with a special focus on Machine Translation (MT) and Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR). The internship is organised in the framework of the European project MEDAR (MEDiterranean ARabic language and speech technology). She or he will work in ELDA offices in Paris and the main work will consist of the development and adaptation of MT and MLIR open source software for Arabic.

http://www.medar.info
http://www.elda.org

Qualifications:
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The applicant should have a high-quality degree in Computer Science. Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl and Eclipse are required.
The applicant should have a good knowledge of Linux and open source software.

Interest in Speech/Text Processing, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or Cognitive Science is a plus.
Proficiency in written English is required.


Starting date:
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February 2009.


Applications
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Applications in the first instance should be made by email to
Djamel Mostefa, Head of Production and Evaluation department, ELDA,  email: mostefa _AT_ elda.org

Please include a cover letter and  your CV 

Ph.D. position

in the field of

Multimodal Dialog Systems

is to be filled immediately with a salary according to TV-L, E13.

The responsibilities include basic research in the area of multimodal dialog systems, especially multimodal human-robot interaction and learning robots, within application targeted research projects in the area of multimodal Human-machine interaction.  Set in a framework of internationally and industry funded research programs, the successful candidate(s) are expected to contribute to the state-of-the art of modern spoken dialog systems, improving natural interaction with robots.

We are an internationally renowned research group with an excellent infrastructure. Current research projects for improving Human-Machine and Human-to-Human interaction are focus on dialog management for Human-Robot interaction.

Within the framework of the International Center for Advanced Communication Technology (interACT), our institute operates in two locations, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany and at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.  International joint and collaborative research at and between our centers is common and encouraged, and offers great international exposure and activity. 

Applicants are expected to have:

• an excellent university degree (M.S, Diploma or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related fields
• excellent programming skills 
• advanced knowledge in at least one of the fields of Speech and Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, or Machine Learning

For candidates with Bachelor or Master’s degrees, the position offers the opportunity to work toward a Ph.D. degree.

In line with the university's policy of equal opportunities, applications from qualified women are particularly encouraged. Handicapped applicants will be preferred in case of the same qualification.

Questions may be directed to: Hartwig Holzapfel, Tel. 0721 608 4057, E-Mail: hartwig@ira.uka.de,  http://isl.ira.uka.de

The application should be sent to Professor Waibel, Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Adenauerring 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Two post-doc positions on sparse representations at IRISA, Rennes,  Post-Doc DeadLine: 28/02/2009 stephanie.lemaile@irisa.fr  Two postdoc positions are opened in the METISS team at INRIA, Rennes, France, in the area of data analysis / signal processing for large-scale data.   INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control plays a leading role in the development of Information and Communication Science and Technology (ICST) in France.  The METISS project team gathers more than 15 researchers and engineers for research in audio signal and speech modelling and processing.  The positions are opened in the context of the European project SMALL (Sparse Models, Algorithms and Learning for Large-scale data), within the FET-Open program of FP7, and of the ECHANGE project (ECHantillonnage Acoustique Nouvelle GEnération), funded by the french ANR.  The objective of the SMALL project is to build a theoretical framework with solid foundations, as well as efficient algorithms, to discover and exploit structure in large-scale multimodal or multichannel data, using sparse signal representations. The SMALL consortium is made of 5 academic partners located in four countries (France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Israel). INRIA is the scientific coordinator of the SMALL project.   INRIA is also the coordinator of the ECHANGE project, which gathers three academic partners (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert & Institut Jacques Louis Lions from Université Paris 6, and INRIA).  The objective of ECHANGE is to design a theoretical and experimental framework based on sparse representations and compressed sensing to measure and process large complex acoustic fields through a limited number of acoustic sensors.  DESCRIPTION The postdocs will work on theoretical, algorithmic and practical aspects of sparse representations of large-dimensional data, with a particular emphasis on acoustic fields, for various applications such as compressed sensing, source separation and localization, and signal classification.   REQUESTED PROFILE: Candidates should hold a Ph.D in Signal/Image Processing, Machine Learning, or Applied Mathematics.  Previous experience in sparse representations (time-frequency and time-scale transforms, pursuit algorithms, support vector machines and related approaches) is desirable, as well as a strong taste for the mathematical aspects of signal processing.     ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  For additional technical information, please contact :  remi.gribonval@inria.fr    DURATION OF THE CONTRACT The positions, funded for at least 2 years (up to three years), will be renewed on a yearly basis depending on scientific progress and achievement. The gross minimum salary will be 28287 € annually (~ 1923 € net per month) and will be adjusted according to experience. The usual funding support of any French institution (medical insurance, etc.) will be provided.   TENTATIVE RECRUITING DATE  01.03.2009  as soon as possible  PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT  INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique  (France) - Websites: : http://www.irisa.fr/ / http://www.inria.fr   SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR  Rémi GRIBONVAL - SMALL/ECHANGE project leader -  METISS Project-Team - INRIA-Bretagne Atlantique -  Email: remi.gribonval@inria.fr -  phone: +33 2 99 84 25 06   APPLICATIONS TO BE SENT TO  Please send application files (a motivation letter, a full resume, a statement of research interests, a list of  publications, and up to five reference letters) to  Stéphanie Lemaile, SMALL/ECHANGE administrative assistant.  Email: stephanie.lemaile@irisa.fr  Deadline: end of february 2009.    http://gdr-isis.org/rilk/gdr/Kiosque/poste.php?jobid=3051

AT&T Labs - Research : Research Staff

AT&T Labs - Research is seeking exceptional candidates for
Research Staff positions. AT&T is the premiere broadband, IP,
entertainment, and wireless communications company in the U.S.
and one of the largest in the world. Our researchers are
dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and
deploying innovative services. We also explore fundamental
research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level
candidates at all levels of experience are encouraged to apply.
Candidates must demonstrate excellence in research, a
collaborative spirit and strong communication and software
skills. Areas of particular interest are

    * Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
    * Acoustic and language modeling
    * Robust speech recognition
    * Signal processing
    * Adaptive learning
    * Pronunciation modeling
    * Natural language understanding
    * Voice and multimodal search

AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. All qualified
candidates will receive full and fair consideration for
employment. Application instructions are available on our
website at http://www.research.att.com. Click on "Join us". 

2009 PhD Research Fellowships 

The Adaptive Multimodal Information and  Interface  Research Lab

(casa.disi.unitn.it) at University of Trento (Italy) has several

PhD Research fellowships in the following areas:

                Statistical Machine Translation                

                Natural Language Processing    

                Automatic Speech Recognition

                Machine Learning

                Spoken/Multimodal Conversational Systems

We are looking for students with _excellent_ academic records

and relevant technical background. Students with EE, CS Master degrees

( or equivalent ) are welcome as well other related disciplines will

be considered. Prospective students are encouraged to look at the lab

website to search for current and past research projects.

PhD research fellowships benefits are described in the graduate school

website (http://ict.unitn.it/disi/edu/ict).

The  applicants should be fluent in _English_. The Italian language

competence is optional and applicants are encouraged to acquire

this skill during training. All applicants should have very good

programming skills. University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

The selection of candidates will be open until positions are filled.

Interested applicants should send their CV along with their

statement of research interest, transcript records and three reference

letters to :

                Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

        Email: riccardi@disi.unitn.it

-------------------

About University of Trento and Information Engineering and Computer

 Science Department

The University of Trento is constantly ranked as

 premiere Italian graduate university institution (see www.disi.unitn.it).

Please visit the DISI Doctorate school website at http://ict.unitn.it/edu/ict

DISI Department

DISI has a strong focus on Interdisciplinarity with professors from

different faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical

Engineering, Economics, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science)

 with international background.

DISI aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the

various research areas in order to develop innovative methods and

technologies, applications and advanced services.

English is the official language.

--

Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

Marie Curie Excellence Leader

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

University of Trento

Room D11, via Sommarive 14

38050 Povo di Trento, Italy

tel  : +39-0461 882087

email: riccardi@dit.unitn.it

 Un poste de maître de conférences en informatique (section 27) 27MCF0031 est à pouvoir à l'université Paris Descartes.
L’objectif de ce recrutement est de renforcer la thématique de recherche en traitement de la parole pour la détection et la remédiation d’altérations de la voix. On attend du candidat une solide expérience en traitement automatique de la parole (reconnaissance, synthèse, …).
Pour l'enseignement, tous les diplômes de l'UFR mathématiques et informatique sont concernés : la Licence MIA, le Master Mathématique et Informatique, le Master MIAGE. 

Contact: Marie-José Carat

Professeur d'Informatique
CRIP5 - Diadex (Dialogue et indexation)

Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères - 75270 Paris cedex 06
< mailto:Marie-Jose.Caraty@ParisDescartes.fr>

Tél  : (33/0) 1 42 86 38 48 

UNIVERSITE PARIS 3 (SORBONNE NOUVELLE) Poste n° 3743

07-Sciences du langage : linguistique et phonétique générales ...
Informatique et Traitemant Automatique des Langues
PARIS 75005
Vacant
Adresse d'envoi du
dossier :
17, RUE DE LA SORBONNE
Bureau du personnel enseignant
PR - 7eme - 0743
75005 - PARIS
Contact administratif :
N° de téléphone :
N° de Fax :
Email :
MARTINE GRAFFAN
GESTION MCF
01 40 46 28 96 01 40 46 28 92
01 43 25 74 71
Martine.Graffan@univ-paris3.fr
Date de prise de fonction : 01/09/2009
Mots-clés :
Profil enseignement :
Composante ou UFR :
Référence UFR :
Institut de linguistique et phonetique generales et appliquees  

0751982X 

Laboratoire5 : 

EA2290 - SYSTEMES LINGUISTIQUES, ENONCIATION ET DISCURSIVITE
(SYLED)
UMR7018 - LABORATOIRE DE PHONETIQUE ET PHONOLOGIE
EA1483 - RECHERCHE SUR LE FRANCAIS CONTEMPORAIN
UMR7107 - LABORATOIRE DES LANGUES ET CIVILISATIONS A TRADITION
ORALE (LACITO)
Informations Complémentaires
Enseignement :
Profil :
L’enseignement interviendra dès la 1ère année de la filière de la Licence des Sciences
du Langage jusqu’au Doctorat des Sciences du Langage, spécialité TAL. La formation en
Traitement Automatique des Langues peut bien entendu aussi trouver des applications dans
un Master de Sciences du Langage, spécialité Langage, Langues, Modèles et un Doctorat de
Sciences du Langage d’autres spécialités.
Le poste permettra l’encadrement d’enseignements associant Sciences du Langage et
Traitement Automatique des Langues, orientés à la fois vers la poursuite d’études en Master
et Doctorat et vers la professionnalisation, en préparant à des métiers des Industries de la
Langue.
Département d’enseignement : UFR de Linguistique e Phonétique Générales et
Appliquées
Lieu(x) d’exercice : 19, rue des Bernardins 75005 - PARIS
Equipe pédagogique :
Nom directeur département : Madame Martine VERTALIER
Tél. directeur département. : 01 44 32 05 79
Email directeur département : Martine.Vertalier@univ-paris3.fr
URL département. : /
Recherche :
Profil :
Développement et encadrement des recherches en TAL, recherche sur « grands
corpus » oraux et/ou écrits dans des langues diverses, éventuellement fouille de données,
induction de grammaires, mais aussi en synergie, au sein des équipes de recherche
constituées, avec les composantes travaillant sur d’autres domaines de recherche, par un
apport de ressources théoriques et technologiques. Le Professeur inscrira sa recherche dans
l’Ecole Doctorale 268 de Paris3 en priorité dans l’équipe fondatrice des filières de formation
et de recherche décrites ci-dessus : le SYLED, en particulier sa composante CLA2t (Centre de
Lexicométrie et d’Analyse Automatique des Textes), ou dans une équipe dont les enseignants
chercheurs contribuent à l’enseignement et à la recherche à l’ILPAG (Laboratoire de
Phonéthique et Phonologie ) ; UMR 7107 Laboratoire des Langues et Civilisations à Tradition
Orale (LACITO).
Lieu(x) d’exercice :
1- EA 2290 SYLED 19 , rue des Bernardins 75005-PARIS
2- UMR 7018 Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologie 19, rue des Bernardins
75005-PARIS
3- EA 1483 Recherche sur le Français Contemporain 19, rue des Bernardins
75005-PARIS
4- UMR 7107 LACITO CNRS 7, rue G. Môquet 94800-VILLEJUIF
Nom directeur laboratoire : 1- M. André SALEM 01 44 32 05 84
2- Me Jacqueline VAISSIERE et Me Annie RIALLAND 01 43 26 57 17
3- Me Anne SALAZAR-ORVIG 01 44 32 05 07
4- Me Zlatka GUENTCHEVA 01 49 58 37 78
Email directeur laboratoire : syled@univ-paris3.fr -
jacqueline.vaissiere@univ-paris3.fr - anne.salazar-orvig@univ-paris3.fr - lacito@vjf.cnrs.fr 

Poste MCF, 221 : Linguistique : pathologie des acquisitions langagières
Université Paris X, Nanterre, Département des Sciences du langage
Contact : Anne Lacheret, anne@lacheret.com

Préférence accordée aux candidats et candidates à double profil :
linguistique et orthophonie ou discipline connexe. 

Ingénieur Etude & Développement (H/F)

POSTE BASE DANS LE NORD PAS DE CALAIS (62)

Fort d’une croissance continue de ses activités, soutenue par un investissement permanent en R&D, notre CLIENT, leader Européen du traitement de l’information recrute un Ingénieur Développement (h/f) spécialisé en sémantique, traitement automatique du langage naturel, outils de traduction automatique et de recherche d’informations cross-lingue et système de gestion de ressources linguistique multilingues (dictionnaires, lexiques, mémoires de traduction, corpus alignés).

Passionné(e) par l’application des technologies les plus avancées au traitement industriel de l’information, vos missions consistent à concevoir, développer et industrialiser les chaînes de traitement documentaire utilisées par les lignes de production pour le compte des clients de l’entreprise.

De formation supérieure en informatique (BAC+5 ou équivalent), autonome et créatif, nous vous proposons d’intégrer une structure dynamique et à taille humaine où l’innovation est permanente au service de la production et du client.

Vous justifiez idéalement de 2/3 ans d'expérience dans la programmation orientée objet et les processus de développement logiciel. La pratique de C++ et/ou Java est indispensable.
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Special Issue on "Emergent Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing"

      Computer Speech and Language, Elsevier       Deadline for paper submission: September 26, 2008.  http://speechlab.ifsc.usp.br/call/csl.pdf                        =

Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
**SIGNAL MODELS AND REPRESENTATION OF MUSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS**
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tap http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tap/sp_issue/audioCFP.pdf
-- Submission deadline: 15 December, 2008
-- Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2009
--Final manuscript due: 1st July, 2009
--Tentative publication date: 1st September, 2009
Guest editors
Dr. Bertrand David (Telecom ParisTech, France) bertrand.david@telecom-paristech.fr
Dr. Laurent Daudet (UPMC University Paris 06, France) daudet@lam.jussieu.fr
Dr. Masataka Goto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) m.goto@aist.go.jp
Dr. Paris Smaragdis (Adobe Systems, Inc, USA) paris@adobe.com
The non-stationary nature, the richness of the spectra and the mixing of diverse sources are common characteristics shared by musical and environmental audio scenes. It leads to specific challenges of audio processing tasks such as information retrieval, source separation, analysis-transformation-synthesis and coding. When seeking to extract information from musical or environmental audio signals, the time-varying waveform or spectrum are often further analysed and decomposed into sound elements. Two aims of this decomposition can be identified, which are sometimes antagonist: to be together adapted to the particular properties of the signal and to the targeted application. This special issue is focused on how the choices of a low level representation (typically a time-frequency distribution with or without probabilistic framework, with or without perceptual considerations), a source model or a decomposition technique may influence the overall performance. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* factorizations of time-frequency distribution
* sparse representations
* Bayesian frameworks
* parametric modeling
* subspace-based methods for audio signals
* representations based on instrument or/and environmental sources signal models
* sinusoidal modeling of non-stationary spectra (sinusoids, noise, transients)
Typical applications considered are (non exclusively):
* source separation/recognition
* mid or high level features extraction (metrics, onsets, pitches, …)
* sound effects * audio coding * information retrieval
* audio scene structuring, analysis or segmentation * ...

 "Speech Communication" special issue on "Speech and Face to Face Communication 
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505597/description

Speech communication is increasingly studied in a face to face perspective:
- It is interactive: the speaking partners build a complex communicative act together
involving linguistic, emotional, expressive, and more generally cognitive and social
dimensions;
- It involves multimodality to a large extent: the “listener” sees and hears the speaker who
produces sounds as well as facial and more generally bodily gestures;
- It involves not only linguistic but also psychological, affective and social aspects of
interaction. Gaze together with speech contribute to maintain mutual attention and to
regulate turn-taking for example. Moreover the true challenge of speech communication is
to take into account and integrate information not only from the speaker but also from the
entire physical environment in which the interaction takes place.

The present issue proposes to synthetize the most recent developments in
this topic considering its various aspects from complementary perspectives: cognitive and
neurocognitive (multisensory and perceptuo-motor interactions), linguistic (dialogic face to
face interactions), paralinguistic (emotions and affects, turn-taking, mutual attention),
computational (animated conversational agents, multimodal interacting communication
systems).

There will be two stages in the submission procedure.

- First stage (by DECEMBER 1ST): submission of a one-to-two page abstract describing the
contents of the work and its relevance to the "Speech and Face to Face Communication" topic
by DECEMBER 1ST. The guest editors will then make a selection of the most relevant
proposals in December.

- Second stage (by MARCH 1ST): the selected contributors will be invited to submit a full
paper by MARCH 1ST. The submitted papers will then be peer reviewed through the regular
Speech Communication journal process (two independent reviews). Accepted papers will then
be published in the special issue.

Abstracts should be directly sent to the guest editors:
Marion.Dohen@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr, Gerard.Bailly@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr, Jean-Luc.Schwartz@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SCALABLE AUDIO-CONTENT ANALYSIS

The amount of easily-accessible audio, whether in the form of large
collections of audio or audio-video recordings, or in the form of
streaming media, has increased exponentially in recent times.
However this audio is not standardized: much of it is noisy,
recordings are frequently not clean, and most of it is not labelled.
The audio content covers a large range of categories including
sports, music and songs, speech, and natural sounds. There is
therefore a need for algorithms that allow us make sense of these
data, to store, process, categorize, summarize, identify and
retrieve them quickly and accurately.

In this special issue we invite papers that present novel approaches
to problems such as (but not limited to):

Audio similarity
Audio categorization
Audio classification
Indexing and retrieval
Semantic tagging
Audio event detection
Summarization
Mining

We are especially interested in work that addresses real-world
issues such as:

Scalable and efficient algorithms
Audio analysis under noisy and real-world conditions
Classification with uncertain labeling
Invariance to recording conditions
On-line and real-time analysis of audio.
Algorithms for very large audio databases.

We encourage theoretical or application-oriented papers that
highlight exploitation of such techniques in practical systems/products.

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music
Processing manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due: June 1st, 2009
First Round of Reviews: September 1, 2009
Publication Date: December 1st, 2009

Guest Editors:

1) Bhiksha Raj
Associate professor

School of computer science
Carnegie Mellon university

2) Paris Smaragdis
Senior Research Scientist
Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Inc.
Newton, MA, USA

3) Malcolm Slaney
Principal Scientist
Yahoo! Research
Santa Clara, CA
and
(Consulting) Professor
Stanford CCRMA

4) Chung-Hsien Wu
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Computer Science & Infomation Engineering
National Cheng Kung University,
Tainan, TAIWAN

5) Liming Chen
Professor and head of the Dept. Mathematics & Informatics
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
University of Lyon
Lyon, France

6) Professor Hyoung-Gook Kim
Intelligent Multimedia Signal Processing Lab.
Kwangwoon University, Republic of Korea 

Atypical Speech
Call for Papers

Research in speech processing (e.g., speech coding, speech enhancement, speech recognition, speaker recognition, etc.) tends to concentrate on speech samples collected from normal adult talkers. Focusing only on these “typical speakers” limits the practical applications of automatic speech processing significantly. For instance, a spoken dialogue system should be able to understand any user, even if he or she is under stress or belongs to the elderly population. While there is some research effort in language and gender issues, there remains a critical need for exploring issues related to “atypical speech”. We broadly define atypical speech as speech from speakers with disabilities, children's speech, speech from the elderly, speech with emotional content, speech in a musical context, and speech recorded through unique, nontraditional transducers. The focus of the issue is on voice quality issues rather than unusual talking styles.

In this call for papers, we aim to concentrate on issues related to processing of atypical speech, issues that are commonly ignored by the mainstream speech processing research. In particular, we solicit original, previously unpublished research on:
• Identification of vocal effort, stress, and emotion in speech
• Identification and classification of speech and voice disorders
• Effects of ill health on speech
• Enhancement of disordered speech
• Processing of children's speech
• Processing of speech from elderly speakers
• Song and singer identification
• Whispered, screamed, and masked speech
• Novel transduction mechanisms for speech processing
• Computer-based diagnostic and training systems for speech dysfunctions
• Practical applications

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing manuscript format described at the journal site

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at

http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due
April 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews
July 1, 2009
Publication Date
October 1, 2009

Guest Editors
•

Georg Stemmer, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, 80333 Munich, Germany
•

Elmar Nöth, Department of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
•

Vijay Parsa, National Centre for Audiology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6G 1H1 

•

Audiovisual synthesis from text

•

Facial animation from audio

•

Trajectory formation systems

•

Evaluation methods for audiovisual synthesis

•

Perception of audiovisual asynchrony in speech and music

•

Control of speech and facial expressions

One page abstractJanuary 1, 2009
Preselection of papersFebruary 1, 2009
Manuscript dueMarch 1, 2009
First round of reviewsMay 1, 2009
Camera-ready papersJuly 1, 2009
Publication dateSeptember 1,2009

Guest Editors

CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION

NON-NATIVE SPEECH PERCEPTION IN ADVERSE CONDITIONS: IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE, IMPERFECT SIGNAL

Much work in phonetics and speech perception has focused on doubly-optimal conditions, in which the signal reaching listeners is unaffected by distorting influences and in which listeners possess native competence in the sound system. However, in practice, these idealised conditions are rarely met. The processes of speech production and perception thus have to account for imperfections in the state of knowledge of the interlocutor as well as imperfections in the signal received. In noisy settings, these factors combine to create particularly adverse conditions for non-native listeners.

The purpose of the Special Issue is to assemble the latest research on perception in adverse conditions with special reference to non-native communication. The special issue will bring together, interpret and extend the results emerging from current research carried out by engineers, psychologists and phoneticians, such as the general frailty of some sounds for both native and non-native listeners and the strong non-native disadvantage experienced for categories which are apparently equivalent in the listeners’ native and target languages.

Papers describing novel research on non-native speech perception in adverse conditions are welcomed, from any perspective including the following. We especially welcome interdisciplinary contributions.

• models and theories of L2 processing in noise
• informational and energetic masking
• role of attention and processing load
• effect of noise type and reverberation
• inter-language phonetic distance
• audiovisual interactions in L2
• perception-production links
• the role of fine phonetic detail

GUEST EDITORS

Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri (Department of English, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain).
garcia.lecumberri@ehu.es

Martin Cooke (Ikerbasque and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain).
m.cooke@ikerbasque.org

Anne Cutler (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Sydney, Australia).
anne.cutler@mpi.nl


DEADLINE

Full papers should be submitted by 31st July 2009

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors should consult the “guide for authors”, available online at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/specom, for information about the preparation of their manuscripts. Papers should be submitted via http://ees.elsevier.com/specom, choosing “Special Issue: non-native speech perception” as the article type. If you are a first time user of the system, please register yourself as an author. Prospective authors are welcome to contact the guest editors for more details of the Special Issue. 

Call for Papers IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing  Special Issue on Speech Processing for Natural Interaction                   with Intelligent Environments  With the advances in microelectronics, communication technologies and smart materials, our environments are transformed to be increasingly intelligent by the presence of robots, bio-implants, mobile devices, advanced in-car systems, smart house appliances and other professional systems. As these environments are integral parts of our daily work and life, there is a great interest in a natural interaction with them. Also, such interaction may further enhance the perception of intelligence. "Interaction between man and machine should be based on the very same concepts as that between humans, i.e. it should be intuitive, multi-modal and based on emotion," as envisioned by Reeves and Nass (1996) in their famous book "The Media Equation". Speech is the most natural means of interaction for human beings and it offers the unique advantage that it does not require carrying a device for using it since we have our "device" with us all the time.  Speech processing techniques are developed for intelligent environments to support either explicit interaction through message communications, or implicit interaction by providing valuable information about the physical ("who speaks when and where") as well as the emotional and social context of an interaction. Challenges presented by intelligent environments include the use of distant microphone(s), resource constraints and large variations in acoustic condition, speaker, content and context. The two central pieces of techniques to cope with them are high-performing "low-level" signal processing algorithms and sophisticated "high-level" pattern recognition methods.  We are soliciting original, previously unpublished manuscripts directly targeting/related to natural interaction with intelligent environments. The scope of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:  * Multi-microphone front-end processing for distant-talking interaction * Speech recognition in adverse acoustic environments and joint          optimization with array processing * Speech recognition for low-resource and/or distributed computing          infrastructure * Speaker recognition and affective computing for interaction with          intelligent environments * Context-awareness of speech systems with regard to their applied          environments * Cross-modal analysis of speech, gesture and facial expressions for          robots and smart spaces * Applications of speech processing in intelligent systems, such as          robots, bio-implants and advanced driver assistance systems.  Submission information is available at http://www.ece.byu.edu/jstsp. Prospective authors are required to follow the Author's Guide for manuscript preparation of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing at http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tsp. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the standard IEEE process.  Manuscript submission due:    		 		  		 		  Jul. 3, 2009 First review completed:       		 		  		 		  Oct. 2, 2009 Revised manuscript due:      		 		  		 		  Nov. 13, 2009 Second review completed:      		 		  		 		  Jan. 29, 2010 Final manuscript due:         		 		  		 		  Mar. 5, 2010  Lead guest editor:         Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark             zt@es.aau.dk  Guest editors:         Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, University of Paderborn, Germany             haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de         Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan             furui@cs.titech.ac.jp         James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA             glass@mit.edu         Maurizio Omologo, FBK-IRST, Italy             omologo@fbk.eu

CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Special Issue on Voice Transformation
With the increasing demand for Voice Transformation in areas such as
speech synthesis for creating target or virtual voices, modeling various
effects (e.g., Lombard effect), synthesizing emotions, making more natural
dialog systems which use speech synthesis, as well as in areas like
entertainment, film and music industry, toys, chat rooms and games, dialog
systems, security and speaker individuality for interpreting telephony,
high-end hearing aids, vocal pathology and voice restoration, there is a
growing need for high-quality Voice Transformation algorithms and systems
processing synthetic or natural speech signals.
Voice Transformation aims at the control of non-linguistic information of
speech signals such as voice quality and voice individuality. A great deal
of interest and research in the area has been devoted to the design and
development of mapping functions and modifications for vocal tract
configuration and basic prosodic features.
However, high quality Voice Transformation systems that create effective
mapping functions for vocal tract, excitation signal, and speaking style
and whose modifications take into account the interaction of source and
filter during voice production, are still lacking.
We invite researchers to submit original papers describing new approaches
in all areas related to Voice Transformation including, but not limited to,
the following topics:
* Preprocessing for Voice Transformation
(alignment, speaker selection, etc.)
* Speech models for Voice Transformation
(vocal tract, excitation, speaking style)
* Mapping functions
* Evaluation of Transformed Voices
* Detection of Voice Transformation
* Cross-lingual Voice Transformation
* Real-time issues and embedded Voice Transformation Systems
* Applications
The call for paper is also available at:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tap/sp_issue/VoiceTransformationCFP.pdf
Prospective authors are required to follow the Information for Authors for
manuscript preparation of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and
Language Processing Signal Processing at
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/periodicals/journals/taslp-author-information/
Manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the standard IEEE process.
Schedule:
Submission deadline: May 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2009
Final manuscript due: October 30, 2009
Publication date: January 2010
Lead Guest Editor:
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
yannis@csd.uoc.gr
Guest Editors:
Tomoki Toda, Nara Inst. of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
tomoki@is.naist.jp
Chung-Hsien Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
chwu@csie.ncku.edu.tw
Alexander Kain, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland Oregon, USA
kaina@ohsu.edu
Olivier Rosec, Orange-France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France
olivier.rosec@orange-ftgroup.com

 Jeudi 2 avril 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe
========================================
Athanassios KATSAMANIS
Computer Vision, Speech Communication & Signal Processing Group
National Technical University of Athens

Titre à préciser

Résumé à venir

Salle de réunion du Département Parole et Cognition (B314)
3ème étage Bâtiment B ENSE3
961 rue de la Houille Blanche
Domaine Universitaire

Jeudi 23 avril 2009, 15h30 – Séminaire externe – Attention horaire inhabituel !!
========================================
Paolo ZEDDA
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Conservatoire d'Alfortville/Paris

Langue chantée et spéculations phonétiques

La langue chantée nous aide à « comprendre » le fonctionnement articulatoire d'une langue. Elle peut éclaircir et parfois même rectifier quelques notions fondamentales désormais consacrées par la linguistique et la phonétique. La gymnastique articulatoire exercée par les variantes régionales et individuelles (sociolectes et idiolectes) influence directement la qualité de l'émission parlée (et éventuellement chantée !) et facilite ou entrave l'apprentissage phonétique d'une langue « seconde ». Ce dernier peut être l'occasion pour un « bilan de diction » où la langue chantée, grâce à sa capacité de ralentir et mettre en évidence le débit articulatoire, nous aide à trouver un système allophonique de bonne diction qui, loin du danger idéologique des approches puristes, facilite un apprentissage personnalisé de nuances phonétiques d'une langue, permettant aussi un fonctionnement optimal de l'appareil vocal.

web site: http://zeddap.club.fr/paolozsite
Lecture préalable conseillée : http://acedle.u-strasbg.fr/article.php3?id_article=467

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Jeudi 30 avril 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe
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Franz CHOULY
INRIA, Rocquencourt

Résolution numérique des équations RNS/P et simulation d'écoulements fluides

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IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

http://icassp09.com

Sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society

April 19 - 24, 2009

Taipei International Convention Center

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

The 34th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 - 24, 2009. The ICASSP meeting is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 50 lecture and poster sessions on:

Audio and electroacoustics

Bio imaging and signal processing

Design and implementation of signal processing systems

Image and multidimensional signal processing

Industry technology tracks

Information forensics and security

Machine learning for signal processing

Multimedia signal processing

Sensor array and multichannel systems

Signal processing education

Signal processing for communications

Signal processing theory and methods

Speech and language processing

Taiwan: The Ideal Travel Destination. Taiwan, also referred to as Formosa – the Portuguese word for "graceful" – is situated on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of mainland Asia, across the Taiwan Strait from Mainland China. To the north lie Okinawa and the main islands of Japan, and to the south is the Philippines. ICASSP 2009 will be held in Taipei, a city that blends traditional culture and cosmopolitan life. As the political, economic, educational, and recreational center of Taiwan, Taipei offers a dazzling array of cultural sights not seen elsewhere, including exquisite food from every corner of China and the world. You and your entire family will be able to fully experience and enjoy this unique city and island. Prepare yourself for the trip of your dreams, as Taiwan has it all: fantastic food, a beautiful ocean, stupendous mountains and lots of sunshine!

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers, including figures and references, to the ICASSP Technical Committee. All ICASSP papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The ICASSP 2009 website www.icassp09.com will provide you with further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

Tutorial and Special Session Proposals: Tutorials will be held on April 19 and 20, 2009. Brief proposals should be submitted by August 4, 2008, to Tsuhan Chen at tutorials@icassp09.com and must include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter, a description of the tutorial, and material to be distributed to participants. Special sessions proposals should be submitted by August 4, 2008, to Shih-Fu Chang at specialsessions@icassp09.com and must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited speakers. Tutorial and special session authors are referred to the ICASSP website for additional information regarding submissions.

General Chair

Lin-shan, Lee

National Taiwan University

General Vice-Chair

Iee-Ray Wei

Chunghwa Telecom Co.,Ltd.

Secretaries General

Tsungnan Lin

National Taiwan University

Fu-Hao Hsing

Chunghwa Telecom Co.,Ltd

Technical Program Chairs

Liang-Gee Chen

National Taiwan University

James R. Glass

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Technical Program Members

Petar Djuric

Stony Brook University

Joern Ostermann

Leibniz University Hannover

Yoshinori Sagisaka

Waseda University

Plenary Sessions

Soo-Chang Pei (Chair)

National Taiwan University

Hermann Ney (Co-chair)

RWTH Aachen

Special Sessions

Shih-Fu Chang (Chair)

Columbia University

Lee Swindlehurst (Co-chair)

University of California, Irvine

Tutorial Chair

Tsuhan Chen

Carnegie Mellon University

Publications Chair

Homer Chen

National Taiwan University

Publicity Chair

Chin-Teng Lin

National Chiao Tung University

Finance Chair

Hsuan-Jung Su

National Taiwan University

Local Arrangements Chairs

Tzu-Han Huang

Chunghwa Telecom Co.,Ltd.

Chong-Yung Chi

National Tsing Hwa University

Jen-Tzung Chien

National Cheng Kung University

Conference Management

Conference Management Services

MEDAR 2009
http://www.medar.info/conference/index.php
2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools
Held under the auspices of the Egyptian minister of CIT, His Excellence Dr. Tarek Kamel
Grand Hyatt Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
22 - 23 April, 2009

Online Registration is now OPEN
http://www.medar.info/conference/registration.php


Important dates

• 9 March 2009: Notification of acceptance
• 15 March 2009: Early registration deadline
• 6 April 2009: Final versions for the proceedings

Conference Schedule

• 21 April 2009: Tutorials at the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University (FCI-CU)
• 22-23 April 2009: Conference at the Grand Hyatt Cairo

Contact: medar@elda.org

3^rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop (AVFA2009)

Madrid (Spain), 18^th - 20^th May 2009

http://www.avfa09.upm.es

     This is the first Call for Papers and Posters for the 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop (AVFA2009) that will be held from May 18^th to 20^th at the Universidad Politécncia de Madrid, Spain.

Motivation

    Speech is the most important means of communication among humans, resulting from a complex interaction among vocal folds vibration at the larynx and voluntary movements of the articulators (i.e., mouth, tongue, velum, jaw, etc.). The function of voice, however, is not limited to speech communication. It also transfers emotions, expresses personality features and reflects situations of stress or pathology. Moreover, it has an aesthetic value in many different professional activities, affecting salesmen, managers, lawyers, singers, actors, etc.

     Although research in speech science has traditionally favoured areas such as synthesis, recognition or speaker verification, the previous facts motivate the current emerging of a new research area related to voice function assessment.

     AVFA2009 aims at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and interactions among researchers in voice assessment beyond the framework of COST Action 2103, thus reaching the whole scientific community.

Topics

     Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Automatic detection of voice disorders
• Automatic assessment & rating of voice quality
• New strategies for parameterization and modelling normal and pathological voices (biomechanical-based parameters, chaos modelling, etc.)
• Databases of vocal disorders
• Inverse filtering
• Signal processing for remote diagnosis
• Speech enhancement for pathological & oesophageal voices
• Objective parameters extraction from vocal fold images using videolaryngoscopy, videokymography, fMRI and other emerging techniques
• Multi-modal analysis of disordered speech
• Robust pitch extraction algorithms for pathological & oesophageal voices
• Emotions in speech
• Speaker adaptation
• Voice Physiology and Biomechanics
• Modelling of Voice Production
• Diagnosis and Evaluation Protocols
• Substitution Voices
• Evaluation of Clinical Treatments
• Analysis of Oesophageal Voices

Submission

    Prospective authors are asked to electronically submit preliminary version of full papers with a maximum length of 4 pages, including figures and tables, in English. Preliminary papers should be submitted as pdf documents, fitted to the linked  template, by the 15^th of January. The submitted documents should include the title and authors' names, affiliations and addresses. In addition, the e-mail address and phone number of the corresponding author should be given. 

    Workshop proceedings will be edited both in paper and CD-ROM. Author registration to the conference is required for accepted papers to be included in the proceedings. The best papers presented at the workshop will be eligible for publication in a referred journal.

Best student paper award

Based on the comments given by the reviewers and the presentation at the conference, the organizing committee will give a best student paper award. The awarded author will be nominated at the closing ceremony of AVFA2009.

Schedule

·        Proposal due 15th January 2009

·        Notification of acceptance 15th February 2009

·        Final papers due 28th February 2009

·        Preliminary program 1st May 2009

·        Workshop 18th May – 20th May 2009

Registration and Information

Registration will be handled via the AVFA2009 web site (http://www.avfa09.upm.es). Please contact the secretariat (avfa09@ics.upm.es) for further information.

Program Committee

• Juan Ignacio Godino Llorente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Co-Chair
• Pedro Gómez Vilda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Co-Chair
• Rubén Fraile, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Scientific Secretariat
• Bartolomé Scola Yurrita, Gregorio Marañón Hospital 

·         Phillippe H. Dejonckere, University Medical Center Utrecht

·         Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete

NAACL-HLT-09: Call for Tutorial Proposals

Proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational linguistics and speech processing, such as processing for purposes of indexing and retrieval, processing for data mining, and so forth, are welcome. Especially encouraged are tutorials that educate the community about advancements in speech and natural language processing occurring in situ with contextual awareness, such as understanding speech, language or gesture in particular physical contexts.

Information on the tutorial instructor payment policy can be found at http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title= Tutorial_teacher_payment_policy

PLEASE NOTE: Remuneration for Tutorial presenters is fixed according to the above policy and does not cover registration fees for the main conference.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Proposals for tutorials should contain:

1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the NAACL-HLT community (not more than 2 pages).
2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a three-hour slot (including a coffee break). In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are available as well.
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise.
4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size.
5. A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., internet access).

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text no later than January 15, 2009 to tutorials.hlt09 "at" gmail "dot" com. The subject line should be: "NAACL HLT 2009: TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".

PLEASE NOTE:

1. Proposals will not be accepted by regular mail or fax, only by email to: tutorials.hlt09 "at" gmail "dot" com.
2. You will receive an email confirmation from us that your proposal has been received. If you do not receive this confirmation 24 hours after sending the proposal, please contact us personally using all the following emails: ciprianchelba "at" google "dot" com,
   kantor "at" scils "dot" rutgers "dot" edu, and
   roark "at" cslu "dot" ogi "dot" edu.

TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES

Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by February 1, 2009, and must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by March 1, 2009. The description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference web site, and a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be given). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the course slides as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial, by April 15, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: January 15, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2009
• Tutorial descriptions due: March 1, 2009
• Tutorial course material due: April 15, 2009
• Tutorial date: May 31, 2009

TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS

• Ciprian Chelba, Google
• Paul Kantor, Rutgers
• Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University

   

Please send inquiries concerning NAACL-HLT-09 tutorials to tutorials.hlt09 "at" gmail "dot" com  

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS EACL 2009, NAACL HLT 2009, AND ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Joint site:  http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/callforworkshops

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for
workshops to be held in conjunction with one of the three flagship
conferences sponsored in 2009 by the Association for Computational
Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2009, EACL 2009, and NAACL HLT 2009.  We solicit
proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. Workshops will
be held at one of the following conference venues:

EACL 2009 is the annual meeting of the European chapter of the ACL. The
conference will be held in Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3 2009;
workshops March 30-31.

NAACL HLT 2009 is the annual meeting of the North American chapter of
the ACL.  It continues the inclusive tradition of encompassing relevant
work from the natural language processing, speech and information
retrieval communities.  The conference will be held in Boulder,
Colorado, USA, from May 31-June 5 2009; workshops will be held June 4-5.

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 combines the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2009) with the 4th International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).  The conference will
be held in Singapore, August 2-7 2009; workshops will be held August 6-7.


    SUBMISSION INFORMATION

In a departure from previous years, ACL-IJCNLP, EACL and NAACL HLT will
coordinate the submission and reviewing of workshop proposals for all
three ACL 2009 conferences.

Proposals for workshops should contain:

    * A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic
      and content.
    * The desired workshop length (one or two days), and an estimate
      of the audience size.
    * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses
      of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their
      research interests and areas of expertise.
    * A budget.
    * A list of potential members of the program committee, with an
      indication of which members have already agreed.
    * A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
    * A description of special requirements for technical needs.
    * A venue preference specification.

The venue preference specification should list the venues at which the
organizers would be willing to present the workshop (EACL, NAACL HLT, or
ACL-IJCNLP).  A proposal may specify one, two, or three acceptable
workshop venues; if more than one venue is acceptable, the venues should
be preference-ordered.  There will be a single workshop committee,
coordinated by the three sets of workshop chairs.  This single committee
will review the quality of the workshop proposals.  Once the reviews are
complete, the workshop chairs will work together to assign workshops to
each of the three conferences, taking into account the location
preferences given by the proposers.

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find general
information on policies regarding attendance, publication, financing,
and sponsorship, as well as on financial support of SIG workshops, at
the following URL:
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/index-policies.html

Please submit proposals by electronic mail no later than September 1
2008, to acl09-workshops at acl09-workshops@uni-konstanz.de with the
subject line: "ACL 2009 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL."


    PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later
than September 23, 2008.  Since the three ACL conferences will occur at
different times, the timescales for the submission and reviewing of
workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be
different for the three conferences. Suggested timescales for each of
the conferences are given below.

ALL CONFERENCES
Sep 1, 2008     Workshop proposal deadline
Sep 23, 2008    Notification of acceptance of workshops

EACL 2009
Sep 30, 2008    Call for papers issued by this date
Dec 12, 2008    Deadline for paper submission
Jan 23, 2009    Notification of acceptance of papers
Feb  6, 2009    Camera-ready copies due
Mar 30-31, 2009 EACL 2009 workshops

NAACL HLT 2009
Dec 10, 2008    Call for papers issued by this date
Mar 6, 2009     Deadline for paper submissions
Mar 30, 2009    Notification of paper acceptances
Apr 12, 2009    Camera-ready copies due
June 4-5, 2009  NAACL HLT 2009 workshops

ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Feb 6, 2009     Call for papers issued issued by this date
May 1, 2009     Deadline for paper submissions
Jun 1, 2009     Notification of acceptances
Jun 14, 2009    Camera-ready copies due
Aug 6-7, 2009   ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshops

Workshop Co-Chairs:

    * Miriam Butt, EACL, University of Konstanz
    * Stephen Clark, EACL, Oxford University
    * Nizar Habash, NAACL HLT, Columbia University
    * Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, NAACL HLT, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
    * Jimmy Lin, ACL-IJCNLP, University of Maryland
    * Yuji Matumoto, ACL-IJCNLP, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

For inquiries, send email to: acl09-workshops at
acl09-workshops@uni-konstanz.de. 

NAACL HLT 09 Call for Demonstrations

The NAACL HLT 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstration Program to be held June 1-3, 2009 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We encourage both the exhibition of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration Program, and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program. We invite proposals for two types of demonstrations:

·        Type I: theater-style, as part of the regular program

·        Type II: poster-style, where demos are to be presented on table-tops in sessions scheduled for a specific time slot.

Submission of a demonstration proposal on a particular topic does not preclude or require a separate submission of a paper on that topic; it is possible that some but not all of the demonstrations will illustrate concepts that are described in companion papers.

Areas of Interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following types of systems, some of which have been demonstrated at recent ACL conferences:

·        End-to-end natural language processing systems

·        User interfaces for monolingual and multilingual information access systems, including retrieval, summarization, and QA engines

·        Voice search interfaces

·        Dialogue and conversational systems

·        Multimodal systems utilizing language technology

·        Language technology on mobile devices

·        Applications using embedded language technology components

·        Meeting capture and analysis systems utilizing language technology

·        Natural language processing systems for medical informatics

·        Assistive applications of language technology

·        Visualization tools

·        Software for evaluating natural language systems and components

·        Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts

·        Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research Reusable components (parsers, generators, speech recognizers, etc.)

·        Tools that assist in the development of other NLP applications (e.g., error analysis)

Format for Submission

Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demonstration Co-Chairs. Please use the main ACL paper formatting guidelines. Please note that no hardware or software will be provided by the local organizer.

·        An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, including title, authors, full contact information, references, and acknowledgements. Please indicate a Type I or Type II demo.

·        A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).

The entire proposal must not be more than four pages.

Submissions Procedure

Proposals must be submitted by February 9, 2009 to the Demonstration Co-Chairs. Submissions must be received electronically. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Michael Johnston                                         Fred Popowich         

AT&T                                                                      Simon Fraser University

johnston “at” research “dot” att “dot” com   popowich “at” sfu “dot” ca

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints.

Accepted submissions will be allocated four pages in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.

Further Details

Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. Please send any inquiries to the demonstration co-chairs at the email addresses listed above.

Important Dates

All submissions or camera-ready copies are due by 11:59pm EST on the dates specified above.

Second Call For Papers  NAACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity (CALC 2009)  Boulder, Colorado June 4, 2009  http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=CALC-09   It is generally agreed upon that "linguistic creativity" is a unique property of human language. Some claim that linguistic creativity is expressed in our ability to combine known words in a new sentence, others refer to our skill to express thoughts in figurative language, and yet others talk about syntactic recursion and lexical creativity.  For the purpose of this workshop, we treat the term "linguistic creativity" to mean "creative language usage at different levels", from the lexicon to syntax to discourse and text (see also topics, below).  The recognition of instances of linguistic creativity and the computation of their meaning constitute one of the most challenging problems for a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, information retrieval, question answering, and sentiment analysis. Computational systems incorporating models of linguistic creativity operate on different types of data (including written text, audio/speech/sound, and video/images/gestures). New approaches might combine information from different modalities. Creativity-aware systems will improve the contribution Computational Linguistics has to offer to many practical areas, including education, entertainment, and engineering.  Within the scope of the workshop, the event is intended to be interdisciplinary. Besides contributions from an NLP perspective, we also welcome the participation of researchers who deal with linguistic creativity from different perspectives, including psychology, neuroscience, or human-computer interaction.  Topics ======  We are particularly interested in work on the automatic detection, classification, understanding, or generation of:  * neologisms; * figurative language, including metaphor, metonymy, personification, idioms; * new or unconventional syntactic constructions ("May I serve who's next?") and constructions defying traditional parsers (e.g. gapping: "Many words were spoken, and sentiments expressed"); * indirect speech acts (such as curses, insults, sarcasm and irony); * verbally expressed humor; * poetry and fiction; * and other phenomena illustrating linguistic creativity.  Depending on the state of the art of approaches to the various phenomena and languages, preference will be given to work on deeper processing (e.g., understanding, goal-driven generation) rather than shallow approaches (e.g., binary classification, random generation). We also welcome descriptions and discussions of:  * computational tools that support people in using language creatively (e.g. tools for computer-assisted creative writing, intelligent thesauri); * computational and/or cognitive models of linguistic creativity; * metrics and tools for evaluating the performance of creativity-aware systems; * specific application scenarios of computational linguistic creativity; * design and implementation of creativity-aware systems.  Related topics, including corpora collection, elicitation, and annotation of creative language usage, will also be considered, as long as their relevance to automatic systems is clearly pointed out.  Invited Speaker ===============  Nick Montfort, MIT  Submissions ===========  Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Papers are limited to 8 pages. The style files can be found here: [http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/stylefiles.html]. No author information should be included in the papers, since reviewing will be blind. Papers not conforming to these requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be submitted via START [https://www.softconf.com/naacl-hlt09/CALC2009/] in PDF format.  We encourage submissions from everyone. For those how are new to ACL conferences and workshops, or with special needs, we are planning to set up a lunch mentoring program. Let us know if you are interested. Also, a limited number of student travel grants might become available, intended for individuals with minority background and current residents of countries where conference travel funding is usually hard to find.  Important Dates ===============  Submission Deadline:	Feb 27, 2009 Notification Due:	Mar 30, 2009 Final Version Due:	Apr 12, 2009 Workshop:		Jun 04, 2009  Organizers ==========  * Anna Feldman, Montclair State University (anna.feldman@montclair.edu) * Birte Loenneker-Rodman, University of Hamburg, Germany (birte.loenneker@uni-hamburg.de)  Program Committee =================  * Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology; * Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Italy; * Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal; * Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto, Canada; * Eileen Fitzpatrick, Montclair State University; * Pablo Gervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; * Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University; * Jerry Hobbs, ISI, Marina del Rey; * Sid Horton, Northwestern University; * Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada; * Mark Lee, Birmingham, UK; * Hugo Liu, MIT; * Xiaofei Lu, Penn State; * Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia; * Katja Markert, University of Leeds, UK; * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas; * Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands; * Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University; * Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis; * Richard Sproat, Oregon Health and Science University; * Gerard Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; * Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy; * Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University, Germany. 

7ème Atelier International sur Indexation Multimédia Par le Contenu.
7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

Lieu de la manifestation

Following the six successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008), 2009 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) will be held on June 3-5, 2009 at the picturesque city of Chania, in Crete Island, Greece. It will be organized by Image, Video and Multimedia Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens. CBMI 2009 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, such as image processing and information retrieval with current industrial trends and developments. CBMI 2009 is supported by IEEE, EURASIP, University of Athens. The technical program of CBMI 2009 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
Matching and similarity search
Construction of high level indices
Multimedia content extraction
Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
Content-based search
Multimedia data mining
Metadata generation, coding and transformation
Large scale multimedia database management
Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content
Presentation and visualization tools
User interaction and relevance feedback
Personalization and content adaptation
Evaluation and metrics

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers at the conference web site: http://www.cbmi2009.org/submission. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors.

Important Dates

Venue

CBMI 2009 will be hosted at KAM - Mediterranean Centre of Architecture, Chania, at the island of Crete, one of the most exciting Greek destinations. KAM was settled by Chania municipality in 1996 and is situated since 2002 at Great Arsenali, the old port of Chania.

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NASAL2009
DEUXIEME APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
http://w3.umh.ac.be/~nasal/Workshop/appel.html
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L'équipe Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3)
et
le Laboratoire des Sciences de la Parole de l'Académie Universitaire
Wallonie-Bruxelles (Université de Mons-Hainaut) organisent un colloque
international consacré à la nasalité en phonétique et en phonologie.

Le colloque aura lieu le vendredi 5 juin 2009 de 9h00 à 18h30 au Grand
Amphithéâtre de la Délégation régionale du CNRS, 1919, route de Mende,
F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5.

L'objectif de ce colloque international est de permettre aux chercheurs du
monde entier de se réunir et d'échanger à propos de leurs travaux
récents
concernant la nasalité. Toute proposition de communication concernant la
nasalité est la bienvenue, en particulier les travaux concernant: la
production
(mesures articulatoires, études aérodynamiques, analyses acoustiques,
etc.),
la perception, les aspects phonologiques, les universaux phonétiques, la
modélisation, les langues peu décrites, les aspects pathologiques et
cliniques, l'acquisition du langage et l'apprentissage d'une langue
seconde. Un
intérêt tout particulier sera accordé aux communications traitant de
questions transversales aux champs disciplinaires cités ci-dessus :
multiinstrumentation, liens entre production et perception, comparaisons
inter-langues, relations entre l'organisation des systèmes phonologiques
et les
contraintes phonétiques, points communs et divergences entre acquisition
en L1
et apprentissage en L2, etc.


Conférenciers invités
Patrice S. Beddor, University of Michigan, USA
Didier Demolin, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique
John Hajek, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ian Maddieson, University of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Alain Marchal, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, France
Jacqueline Vaissière, Université de Paris III, France


Comité scientifique
Pierre Badin, Gipsa-Lab, France
Nick Clements, Université de Paris III, France
Bernard Harmegnies, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgique
Sarah Hawkins, University of Cambridge, UK
Marie Huffman, State University of New York Stony Brook, USA
John Kingston, University of Massachussets at Amherst, USA
Christine Matyear, University of Texas at Austin, USA
John Ohala, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Daniel Recasens, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Espana
Ryan Shosted, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Maria Josep Solé, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Espana
Nathalie Vallée, Gipsa-Lab, France
Doug Whalen, Haskins Laboratories, USA


Date limite de soumission
15 février 2009

Modalités de soumission
Envoyer un message avec les coordonnées complètes du premier auteur et le
nom
des éventuels autres auteurs à nasal2009@umh.ac.be avec, en fichier
attaché,
un article anonyme de quatre pages A4 maximum sous la forme d'un fichier
pdf.
Un modèle de fichier Word est téléchargeable sur notre site web.

Notez par ailleurs que tous les intervenants seront invités à soumettre
une
version longue de leur communication (50000 caractères) pour une
éventuelle
publication dans un livre à paraître chez un éditeur international. Date
limite de soumission des papiers: autour du 14 septembre 2009.

Pour plus d'infos, visitez notre site web:
http://w3.umh.ac.be/~nasal/Workshop/appel.html


Pour le comité d'organisation,
V. Delvaux
Chargée de Recherches FNRS
Laboratoire de Phonétique
Service de Métrologie et Sciences du Langage
Université de Mons-Hainaut
18, Place du Parc
7000 Mons
Belgium
+3265373140

TrebleCLEF Summer School on Multilingual Information Access      http://www.trebleclef.eu/summerschool.php  Santa Croce in Fossabanda Pisa, Italy 15-19 June 2009  Objectives  The aim of the Summer School is to give participants a grounding in the core topics that constitute the multidisciplinary area of Multilingual Information Access (MLIA). The School is intended for advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students, post-doctorial researchers plus academic and industrial researchers and system developers with backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Science, Language Technologies and related areas. The focus of the school will be on "How to build effective multilingual information retrieval systems and how to evaluate them".  Programme  The programme of the school will cover the following areas:  .         Multilingual Text Processing  .         Cross-Language Information Retrieval  .         Content and Text-based Image Retrieval, including multilingual approaches  .         Cross-language Speech and Video Retrieval  .         System Architectures and Multilinguality  .         Information Extraction in a Multilingual Context  .         Machine Translation for Multilingual Information processing  .         Interactive Aspects of Cross-Language Information Retrieval  .         Evaluation for Multilingual Systems and Components.  An optional student mentoring session where students can present and discuss with lecturers their research ideas will also be organised.  Location and Dates  The Summer School will be held 15 - 19 June 2009 in the beautiful ex-convent <http://www.fossabanda.it/> Santa Croce in Fossabanda, Pisa. Santa Croce provides the perfect setting for study and discussions in a peaceful, relaxed atmosphere and is just a short walk from the town centre and the famous Piazza dei Miracoli with its Leaning Tower.  Accommodation and Registration  A maximum of 40 registrations will be accepted. Tuition fees are set at 200 Euros up to 30 April and 350 Euros after this date. Tuition fees cover all courses and lectures, course material, lunch and coffee breaks during the School, the Welcome Reception on the evening of Sunday 14 June, and the Social Dinner on Monday 15 June. Accommodation will be on the School site at Santa Croce in Fossabanda.  Financial Support for Students  A number of grants will be made available by TrebleCLEF and by the DELOS Association covering accommodation costs. Students wishing to receive a grant must submit a brief application (maximum 1 page) explaining why attendance at the school would be important for them. The application must be supported by a letter of reference from the student's advisor / supervisor or equivalent.  More information  Further details including the programme of lectures and information on how to register can be found at  <http://www.trebleclef.eu/summerschool.php> http://www.trebleclef.eu/summerschool.php  or contact Carol Peters (carol.peters@isti.cnr.it)

SPECOM 2009 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

    13-th International Conference "Speech and Computer"
                             21-25 June 2009
     Grand Duke Vladimir's palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
                      http://www.specom.nw.ru

(!) Due to many requests the submission deadline has been postponed to Monday, February 9, 2009 (!) 

Organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS)

Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to invite you to the 13-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM'2009, which will be held in June
21-25, 2009 in St.Petersburg. The global aim of the conference is to discuss state-of-the-art problems and recent achievements in Signal Processing and
Human-Computer Interaction related to speech technologies. Main topics of SPECOM'2009 are:
- Signal processing and feature extraction
- Multimodal analysis and synthesis
- Speech recognition and understanding
- Natural language processing
- Spoken dialogue systems
- Speaker and language identification
- Text-to-speech systems
- Speech perception and speech disorders
- Speech and language resources
- Applications for human-computer interaction

The official language of the event is English. Full papers up to 6 pages will be published in printed and electronic proceedings with ISBN.

Imporatnt Dates:
- Submission of full papers: February 1, 2009 (extended)
- Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2009
- Submission of final papers: March 20, 2009
- Early registration: March 20, 2009
- Conference dates: June 21-25, 2009

Scientific Committee:
Andrey Ronzhin, Russia (conference chairman)
Niels Ole Bernsen, Denmark
Denis Burnham, Australia
Jean Caelen, France
Christoph Draxler, Germany
Thierry Dutoit, Belgium
Hiroya Fujisaki, Japan
Sadaoki Furui, Japan
Jean-Paul Haton, France
Ruediger Hoffmann, Germany
Dimitri Kanevsky, USA
George Kokkinakis, Greece
Steven Krauwer, Netherlands
Lin-shan Lee, Taiwan
Boris Lobanov, Belarus
Benoit Macq, Belgium
Jury Marchuk, Russia
Roger Moore, UK
Heinrich Niemann, Germany
Rajmund Piotrowski, Russia
Louis Pols, Netherlands
Rodmonga Potapova, Russia
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
Lawrence Rabiner, USA
Gerhard Rigoll, Germany
John Rubin, UK
Murat Saraclar, Turkey
Jesus Savage, Mexico
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Viktor Sorokin, Russia
Yannis Stylianou, Greece
Jean E. Viallet, France
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Christian Wellekens, France

The invited speakers of SPECOM'2009 are:
- Prof. Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), lecture "Towards Natural Acoustic Interfaces for Automatic Speech Recognition"
- Prof. Mikko Kurimo (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), lecture "Unsupervised decomposition of words for speech recognition and retrieval"

The conference venue is House of Scientists (former Grand Duke Vladimir's palace) located in the very heart of the city, in the neighborhood
of the Winter Palace (Hermitage), the residence of Russian emperor, and the Peter's and Paul's Fortress. Independently of the scientific actions
we will provide essential possibilities for acquaintance with cultural and historical valuables of  Saint-Petersburg, the conference will be hosted
during a unique and wonderful period known as the White Nights.

Contact Information:
SPECOM'2009 Organizing Committee,
SPIIRAS, 39, 14-th line, St.Petersburg, 199178, RUSSIA
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru 

at Johns Hopkins University invites one page research proposals for a

NSF-sponsored, Six-week Summer Research Workshop on

Machine Learning for Language Engineering

to be held in Baltimore, MD, USA,

June 22 to July 31, 2009.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2008.

One-page proposals are invited for the 15^th annual NSF sponsored JHU summer workshop.  Proposals should be suitable for a six-week team exploration, and should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) including speech recognition, machine translation, information retrieval, text summarization and question answering.  This year, proposals in related areas of Machine Intelligence, such as Computer Vision (CV), that share techniques with HLT are also being solicited.  Research topics selected for investigation by teams in previous workshops may serve as good examples for your proposal. (See http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops.)

Proposals on all topics of scientific interest to HLT and technically related areas are encouraged.  Proposals that address one of the following long-term challenges are particularly encouraged.

Ø  ROBUST TECHNOLOGY FOR SPEECH:  Technologies like speech transcription, speaker identification, and language identification share a common weakness: accuracy degrades disproportionately with seemingly small changes in input conditions (microphone, genre, speaker, dialect, etc.), where humans are able to adapt quickly and effectively. The aim is to develop technology whose performance would be minimally degraded by input signal variations.

Ø  KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM LARGE UNSTRUCTURED TEXT COLLECTIONS: Scaling natural language processing (NLP) technologies—including parsing, information extraction, question answering, and machine translation—to very large collections of unstructured or informal text, and domain adaptation in NLP is of interest.

Ø  VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION: New strategies are needed to parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an image as a set of spatially related components.  Such strategies may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g., generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned image features that have recently become popular for object detection.  They will support both learning and efficient search for the best analysis.

Ø  UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING: Novel techniques that do not require extensive quantities of human annotated data to address any of the challenges above could potentially make large strides in machine performance as well as lead to greater robustness to changes in input conditions.  Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning techniques with applications to HLT and CV are therefore of considerable interest.

An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated no later than October 22, 2008. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to Baltimore to present their ideas to a peer-review panel on November 7-9, 2008.  It is expected that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected for the 2009 workshop.

We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue the selected topics for six weeks.  Authors of successful proposals typically become the team leaders.  Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students.  The senior participants come from academia, industry and government.  Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance, usually by the senior researchers. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, will be rising seniors who are new to the field and have shown outstanding academic promise.

If you are interested in participating in the 2009 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed.  If your proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join us for the organizational meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for further discussions aimed at consensus.  If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the two or three to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available for participation in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu by 4PM EST on Wed, October 15, 2008.

DIAHOLMIA 2009: THE 13TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June, 2009

The SemDial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. DiaHolmia will be the 13th workshop in the SemDial series, and will be organized at the Department of Speech Music and Hearing, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). KTH is Scandinavia's largest institution of higher education in technology and is located in central Stockholm (Holmia in Latin).

WEBSITE: www.diaholmia.org

DATES AND DEADLINES:

Full 8-page papers:
Submission due: 22 March 2009
Notification of acceptance: 25 April 2009
Final version due: 7 May 2009

2-page poster or demo descriptions:
Submission due: 25 April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2009

DiaHolmia 2009: 24-26 June 2009 (Wednesday-Friday)

SCOPE:

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- common ground/mutual belief
- turn-taking and interaction control
- dialogue and discourse structure
- goals, intentions and commitments
- natural language understanding/semantic interpretation
- reference, anaphora and ellipsis
- collaborative and situated dialogue
- multimodal dialogue
- extra- and paralinguistic phenomena
- categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems
- incremental, context-dependent processing
- reasoning in dialogue systems
- dialogue management

Full papers will be in the usual 8-page, 2-column format. There will also be poster and demo presentations. The selection of posters and demos will be based on 2-page descriptions. Selected descriptions will be included in the proceedings.

Details on programme and local arrangements will be announced at a later date.

The best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions to Dialogue & Discourse, the new open-access journal dedicated exclusively to research on language 'beyond the single sentence' (www.dialogue-and-discourse.org).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Nick Campbell (ATR, Japan)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, New York)
Sverre Sjölander (Linköping University, Sweden)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Jan Alexandersson, Srinivas Bangalore, Ellen Gurman Bard, Anton Benz, Johan Bos, Johan Boye, Harry Bunt, Donna Byron, Jean Carletta, Rolf Carlson, Robin Cooper, Paul Dekker, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Raquel Fernández, Claire Gardent, Simon Garrod, Jonathan Ginzburg, Pat Healey, Peter Heeman, Mattias Heldner, Joris Hulstijn, Michael Johnston, Kristiina Jokinen, Arne Jönsson, Alistair Knott, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Staffan Larsson, Oliver Lemon, Ian Lewin, Diane Litman, Susann Luperfoy, Colin Matheson, Nicolas Maudet, Michael McTear, Wolfgang Minker, Philippe Muller, Fabio Pianesi, Martin Pickering, Manfred Pinkal, Paul Piwek, Massimo Poesio, Alexandros Potamianos, Matthew Purver, Manny Rayner, Hannes Rieser, Laurent Romary, Alex Rudnicky, David Schlangen, Stephanie Seneff, Ronnie Smith, Mark Steedman, Amanda Stent, Matthew Stone, David Traum, Marilyn Walker and Mats Wirén

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Jens Edlund
Joakim Gustafson
Anna Hjalmarsson
Gabriel Skantze 

6th WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS > > The sixth IJCAI workshop on "Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue 

Systems" will focus on challenges of novel applications of practical dialogue systems. The venue for IJCAI 2009 is Pasadena Conference Center, California, USA. 

> Topics addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to the 

following, particularly focusing on the challenges offered by these novel applications: 

> >    * What kinds of novel applications have a need for natural language 

dialogue interaction? 

>    * How can authoring tools for dialogue systems be developed such that 

application designers who are not experts in natural language can make use of these systems? 

>    * How can one easily adapt a dialogue system to a new application? >    * Methods for design and development of dialogue systems. >    * What are the extra constraints and resources of a dialogue system for 

these novel applications, that might not be present in a speech or text only dialogue system or even traditional multi-modal interfaces? 

>    * Representation of language resources for dialogue systems. >    * The role of ontologies in dialogue systems >    * Evaluation of dialogue systems, what to evaluate and how. >    * Techniques and algorithms for adaptivity in dialogue systems on 

various levels, e.g. interpretation, dialogue strategy, and generation. 

>    * Robustness and how to handle unpredictability. >    * Architectures and frameworks for adaptive dialogue systems. >    * Requirements and methods for development related to the architecture. > > This is the sixth IJCAI workshop on "Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical 

Dialogue Systems". The first workshop was held at IJCAI in Stockholm in 1999. The second workshop was held at IJCAI 2001 in Seattle, with a focus on multimodal interfaces. The Third workshop was held in Acapulco, in 2003, and focused on the role and use of ontologies in multi-modal dialogue systems. The fourth workshop was held in Edinburgh in 2005, and focused on adaptivity in dialogue systems. The fifth workshop was held in Hyderabad, India, 2007 and focused on dialogue systems for robots and virtual humans. 

> > Who should attend > > This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners that 

work on the development of communication models that support robust and efficient interaction in natural language, both for commercial dialogue systems and in basic research. 

> > It should be of interest also for anyone studying dialogue and multimodal 

interfaces and how to coordinate different information sources. This involves theoretical as well as practical research, e.g. empirical evaluations of usability, formalization of dialogue phenomena and development of intelligent interfaces for various applications, including such areas as robotics. 

> > Workshop format > > The workshop will be kept small, with a maximum of 40 participants. 

Preference will be given to active participants selected on the basis of their submitted papers. 

> > Each paper will be given ample time for discussion, more than what is 

customary at a conference. As said above, we encourage contributions of a critical or comparative nature that provide fuel for discussion. We also invite people to share their experiences of implementing and coordinating knowledge modules in their dialogue systems, and integrating dialogue components to other applications. 

> > Important Dates > >    * Submission deadline: March 6, 2009 >    * Notification date: April 17, 2009 >    * Accepted paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009 >    * Workshop July, 2009 > > Submissions > > Papers may be any of the following types: > >    * Regular Papers papers of length 4-8 pages, for regular presentation >    * Short Papers with brief results, or position papers, of length up to 

4 pages for brief or panel presentation. 

>    * Extended papers with extra details on system architecture, background 

theory or data presentation, of up to 12 pages, for regular presentation. 

> > Papers should include authors names and affiliation and full references 

(not anonymous submission). All papers should be formatted according to the AAAI formats: AAAI Press Author Instructions 

> > Submission procedure > > Papers should be submitted by web by registering at the following address: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krpd09 

> > Organizing Committee > > Arne Jönsson (Chair) > Department of Computer and Information Science > Linköping University > S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden > tel: +46 13 281717 > fax: +46 13 142231 > email: arnjo@ida.liu.se > > David Traum (Co-Chair) > Institute for Creative Technologies > University of Southern California > 13274 Fiji Way > Marina del Rey, CA 90405 USA > tel: +1 (310) 574-5729 > fax: +1 (310) 574-5725 > email: traum@ict.usc.edu > > Jan Alexandersson (Co-Chair) > German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH > Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 > D-66 123 Saarbrücken > Germany > tel: +49-681-3025347 > fax: +49-681-3025341 > email: jan.alexandersson@dfki.de > > Ingrid Zukerman (Co-Chair) > Faculty of Information Technolog > Monash University > Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia > tel: +61 3 9905-5202 > fax: +61 3 9905-5146 > email: ingrid@csse.monash.edu.au > > Programme committee > > Dan Bohus, USA > Johan Bos, Italy > Sandra Carberry, USA > Kallirroi Georgila, USA > Genevieve Gorrell, UK > Joakim Gustafson, Sweden > Yasuhiro Katagiri, Japan > Ali Knott, New Zealand > Kazunori Komatani, Japan > Staffan Larsson, Sweden > Anton Nijholt, Netherlands > Tim Paek, USA > Antoine Raux, USA > Candace Sidner, USA > Amanda Stent, USA > Marilyn Walker, UK > Jason Williams, USA > > Web page: http://www.ida.liu.se/~arnjo/Ijcai09ws/ > > Arne Jönsson > Tel: +4613281717

The Multimod 2009 conference - Multimodality of communication in children:
gestures, emotions, language and cognition is being organized jointly by
psychologists and linguists from the Universities of Toulouse (Toulouse II)
and Grenoble (Grenoble III) and will take place in Toulouse (France) from
Thursday 9th July to Saturday 11th July 2009.

The aim of the conference will be to assess research on theories, concepts
and methods relating to multimodality in children.

The invited speakers are :
- Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago, USA),
- Jana Iverson (University of Pittsburg, USA),
- Paul Harris (Harvard University, USA),
- Judy Reilly (San Diego State University, USA),
- Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon (University of Stirling, UK),
- Marianne Gullberg (MPI Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

We invite you to submit proposals for symposia, individual papers or posters
of original, previously unpublished research on all aspects of multimodal
communication in children, including:

- Gestures and language development, both typical and atypical
- Emotional development, both typical and atypical
- Multimodality of communication and bilingualism
- Gestural and/or emotional communication in non-human and human primates
- Multimodality of communication and didactics
- Multimodality of communication in the classroom
- Multimodality of communication and brain development
- Prosodic (emotional) aspects of language and communication development
- Pragmatic aspects of multimodality development

Please visit the conference website
http://w3.eccd.univ-tlse2.fr/multimod2009/ to find all useful Information
about submissions (individual papers, posters and symposia); the deadline
for submissions is December 15th, 2008. 

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 1st Call for Papers

Joint Conference of
the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
and
the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of
the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

August 2 - 7, 2009
Singapore

http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org

Full Paper Submission Deadline:  February 22, 2009 (Sunday)
Short Paper Submission Deadline:  April 26, 2009 (Sunday)

For the first time, the flagship conferences of the Association of
Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Asian Federation of Natural
Language Processing (AFNLP) --the ACL and IJCNLP -- are jointly
organized as a single event. The conference will cover a broad
spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and
computation. ACL-IJCNLP 2009 will include full papers, short papers,
oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials,
and workshops. The conference invites the submission of papers on
original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational
linguistics.

Important Dates:

* Feb 22, 2009    Full paper submissions due;
* Apr 12, 2009    Full paper notification of acceptance;
* Apr 26, 2009    Short paper submissions due;
* May 17, 2009    Camera-ready full papers due;
* May 31, 2009    Short Paper notification of acceptance;
* Jun 7, 2009       Camera-ready short papers due;
* Aug 2-7, 2009   ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Topics of interest:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Phonology/morphology, tagging and chunking, and word segmentation
* Grammar induction and development
* Parsing algorithms and implementations
* Mathematical linguistics and grammatical formalisms
* Lexical and ontological semantics
* Formal semantics and logic
* Word sense disambiguation
* Semantic role labeling
* Textual entailment and paraphrasing
* Discourse, dialogue, and pragmatics
* Language generation
* Summarization
* Machine translation
* Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
* Question answering
* Text mining and natural language processing applications
* NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
* NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
* Spoken language processing
* Speech recognition and synthesis
* Spoken language understanding and generation
* Language modeling for spoken language
* Multimodal representations and processing
* Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
* Speech translation
* Statistical and machine learning methods
* Language modeling for text processing
* Lexicon and ontology development
* Treebank and corpus development
* Evaluation methods and user studies
* Science of annotation

Submissions:

Full Papers: Submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete
evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged
on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance,
relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Each
submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee
members.

Full papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus one
extra page for references, and will be presented orally or as a poster
presentation as determined by the program committee.  The decisions as
to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster
presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality
of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between
full papers presented orally and those presented as poster
presentations.

The deadline for full papers is February 22, 2009 (GMT+8). Submission
is electronic using paper submission software at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/papers

Short papers: ACL-IJCNLP 2009 solicits short papers as well. Short
paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. The
short paper deadline is just about three months before the conference
to accommodate the following types of papers:

* A small, focused contribution
* Work in progress
* A negative result
* An opinion piece
* An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions,
and will be given four pages in the proceedings. While short papers
will be distinguished from full papers in the proceedings, there will
be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented
orally and those presented as poster presentations. Each short paper
submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.
The deadline for short papers is April 26, 2009 (GMT + 8).  Submission
is electronic using paper submission software at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/shortpapers

Format:

Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of
content plus one extra page for references.  Short paper submissions
should also follow the two-column format of ACL-IJCNLP 2009
proceedings, and should not exceed four (4) pages, including
references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or
Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference, which
are available on the conference website under Information for Authors.
Submissions must conform to the official ACL-IJCNLP 2009 style
guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be
electronic in PDF.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith,
1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review.

Multiple-submission policy:

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information at submission time. If
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program
chairs by April 19, 2009 (full papers) or June 7, 2009 (short papers),
indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work.
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 cannot accept for publication or presentation work
that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Mentoring Service:

ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from
regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of
scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to
read the scientific literature in English, have little or no
experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the
ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of
potential mentors will be identified by Mentoring Service Chairs Ng,
Hwee Tou (NUS, Singapore) and Reeder, Florence (Mitre, USA), who will
organize this service for ACL-IJCNLP 2009. If you would like to take
advantage of the service, please upload your paper in PDF format by
January 14, 2009 for long papers and March 18 2009 for short papers
using the paper submission software for mentoring service which will
be available at conference website.

An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor
will get back to you by February 8 for long papers or April 12 for
short papers, at least 2 weeks before the deadline for the submission
to the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 program committee.

Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as
described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to
improve the technical content of their papers.

If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send
a message to Ng, Hwee Tou (nght[at]comp.nus.edu.sg) or Reeder,
Florence (floreederacl[at]yahoo.com).

General Conference Chair:
Su, Keh-Yih (Behavior Design Corp., Taiwan; kysu[at]bdc.com.tw)

Program Committee Chairs:
Su, Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;
sujian[at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
Wiebe, Janyce (University of Pittsburgh, USA; janycewiebe[at]gmail.com)

Area Chairs:
Agirre, Eneko (University of Basque Country, Spain; e.agirre[at]ehu.es)
Ananiodou, Sophia (University of Manchester, UK;
      sophia.ananiadou[at]manchester.ac.uk)
Belz, Anja (University of Brighton, UK; a.s.belz[at]itri.brighton.ac.uk)
Carenini, Giuseppe (University of British Columbia, Canada;
carenini[at]cs.ubc.ca)
Chen, Hsin-Hsi (National Taiwan University, TaiWan, hh_chen[at]csie.ntu.edu.tw)
Chen, Keh-Jiann (Sinica, Tai Wan, kchen[at]iis.sinica.edu.tw)
Curran, James (University of Sydney, Australia; james[at]it.usyd.edu.au)
Gao, Jian Feng (MSR, USA; jfgao[at]microsoft.com)
Harabagiu, Sanda (University of Texas at Dallas, USA, sanda[at]hlt.utdallas.edu)
Koehn, Philipp (University of Edinburgh, UK; pkoehn[at]inf.ed.ac.uk)
Kondrak, Grzegorz (University of Alberta, Canada; kondrak[at]cs.ualberta.ca)
Meng, Helen Mei-Ling (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
      hmmeng[at]se.cuhk.edu.hk )
Mihalcea, Rada (University of Northern Texas, USA; rada[at]cs.unt.edu)
Poesio, Massimo(University of Trento, Italy; poesio[at]disi.unitn.it)
Riloff, Ellen (University of Utah, USA; riloff[at]cs.utah.edu)
Sekine, Satoshi (New York University, USA; sekine[at]cs.nyu.edu)
Smith, Noah (CMU, USA; nasmith[at]cs.cmu.edu)
Strube, Michael (EML Research, Germany; strube[at]eml-research.de)
Suzuki, Jun (NTT, Japan; jun[at]cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)
Wang, Hai Feng (Toshiba, China; wanghaifeng[at]rdc.toshiba.com.cn) 

 
Call for papers (submission deadline Friday 17 April 2009)
 
Special Session : "Machine Learning for Adaptivity in Spoken Dialogue Systems"
at Interspeech 2009, Brighton U.K., http://www.interspeech2009.org/
Session chairs: Oliver Lemon, Edinburgh University,
and Olivier Pietquin, Supélec - IMS Research Group
In the past decade, research in the field of Spoken Dialogue Systems
(SDS) has experienced increasing growth, and new applications include
interactive mobile search, tutoring, and troubleshooting systems
(e.g. fixing a broken internet connection). The design and
optimization of robust SDS for such tasks requires the development of
dialogue strategies which can automatically adapt to different types
of users (novice/expert, youth/senior) and noise conditions
(room/street). New statistical learning techniques are emerging for
training and optimizing adaptive speech recognition, spoken language
understanding, dialogue management, natural language generation, and
speech synthesis in spoken dialogue systems. Among machine learning
techniques for spoken dialogue strategy optimization, reinforcement
learning using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially
Observable MDP (POMDPs) has become a particular focus.
We therefore solicit papers on new research in the areas of:
- Adaptive dialogue strategies and adaptive multimodal interfaces
- User simulation techniques for adaptive strategy learning and testing
- Rapid adaptation methods
- Reinforcement Learning of dialogue strategies
- Partially Observable MDPs in dialogue strategy optimization
- Statistical spoken language understanding in dialogue systems
- Machine learning and context-sensitive speech recognition
- Learning for adaptive Natural Language Generation in dialogue
- Corpora and annotation for machine learning approaches to SDS
- Machine learning for adaptive multimodal interaction
- Evaluation of adaptivity in statistical approaches to SDS and user
simulation.
Important Dates--
Full paper submission deadline: Friday 17 April 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: Wednesday 17 June 2009
Conference dates: 6-10 September 2009

IDP 09 : CALL FOR PAPERS

Discourse – Prosody Interface

Paris, September 9-10-11, 2009

The third round of the “Discourse – Prosody Interface” Conference will be hosted by the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR 7110 / LLF), the Equipe CLILLAC-ARP (EA 3967) and the Linguistic Department (UFRL) of the University of Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), on September 9-10-11, 2009 in Paris. The first round was organized by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 6057 /LPL) in September 2005, in Aix-en-Provence. The second took place in Geneva in September 2007 and was organized by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva, in collaboration with the École de Langue et Civilisation Françaises at the University of Geneva, and the VALIBEL research centre at the Catholic University of Louvain.

The third round will be held at the Paris Center of the University of Chicago, 6, rue Thomas Mann, in the XIIIth arrondissement, near the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand (BNF).

The Conference is addressed to researchers in prosody, phonology, phonetics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and also psycholinguistics, who are particularly interested in the relations between prosody and discourse. The participants may develop their research programmes within different theoretical paradigms (formal approaches to phonology and semantics/ pragmatics, conversation analysis, descriptive linguistics, etc.). For this third edition, spécial attention will be given to research work that propose a formal analysis of the Discourse- Prosody interface.

So as to favour convergence among contributions, the IDP09 conference will focus on :

* Prosody, its parts and discourse :

- How to analyze the interaction between the different prosodic subsystems (accentuation,

intonation, rhythm; register changes or voice quality)?

- How to model the contribution of each subsystem to the global interpretation of discourse?

- How to describe and analyze prosodic facts, and at which level (phonetic vs. phonological) ?

* Prosodic units & discourse units

- What are the relevant units for discourse or conversation analysis ? What are their prosodic

properties ?

- How the embedding of utterances in discourse is marked syntactically or prosodically ?

What consequence of the modelling of syntax & prosody ?

* Prosody and context(s)

- What is the contribution of the context in the analysis of prosody in discourse?

- How can the relations between prosody and context(s) be modelled?

* Acquisition of the relations between prosody & discourse in L1 and L2

- How are the relations between prosody & discourse acquired in L1, in L2 ?

- Which methodological tools could best describe and transcribe these processes ?

Guest speakers :

* Diane Blakemore (School of Languages, University of Salford, United Kingdom)

* Piet Mertens (Department of Linguistics, K.U Leuven, Belgium)

* Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin,

Germany)

Conference will be held in English or French. Studies can be about any language.

Submission will be made by uploading an anonymous two pages abstract (plus an extra page for references and figures) in A4 and with Times 12 font, written in either English or French as PDF file at the following address : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idp09 .

Author’s name and affiliation should be given as requested, but not in the PDF file.

If you have any question concerning the submission procedure or you encounter any problem,

please send an email at the following address : idp09@linguist.jussieu.fr

Authors may submit as many proposals as they wish.

The proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee.

Schedule

• Submission deadline: April, 26th, 2009

• Notification of acceptation: June, 8th, 2009

• Conference (IDP 09): September 9th-11th, 2009.

Further information is available on the conférence website : http://idp09.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr

International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology for Development
- from promise to practice
 
Venue - The Abbey Hotel, Tintern, UK
Dates - 11-12 September 2009
  
Following on from a successful special session at SLT 2008 in Goa, this workshop invites participants with an interest in SLT4D and who have expertise and experience in any of the following areas:
- Development of speech technology for resource-scarce languages
- SLT deployments in the developing world
- HCI in a developing world context
- Successful ICT4D interventions
  
The aim of the workshop is to develop a "Best practice in developing and deploying speech systems for developmental applications". It is also hoped that the participants will form the core of an open community which shares tools, insights and methodologies for future SLT4D projects. 
  
If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please submit a 2-4 page position paper explaining how your expertise and experience might be applied to SLT4D, formatted according to the Interspeech 2009 guidelines, to Roger Tucker at roger@outsideecho.com by 30th April 2009. 
  
Important Dates:
Papers due: 30th April 2009
Acceptance Notification: 10th June 2009
Early Registration deadline: 3rd July 2009
Workshop: 11-12 September 2009
  
Further details can be found on the workshop website at www.llsti.org/SLT4D-09

RANLP-09 Second Call for Papers and Submission Information
  
 
  
"RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
  
 
  
International Conference RANLP-2009
  
 
  
September 14-16, 2009
  
Borovets, Bulgaria
  
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009
  
 
  
Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  
and 6th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing'
  
(RANLP), we are pleased to announce the 7th RANLP conference to be held in
  
September 2009.
  
 
  
The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
  
speakers plus peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also be an
  
exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.
  
 
  
We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural
  
Language Processing (NLP). The conference topics are announced at the
  
RANLP-09 website. All accepted papers will be published in the full
  
conference proceedings and included in the ACL Anthology. In addition,
  
volumes of RANLP selected papers are traditionally published by John
  
Benjamins Publishers; currently the volume of Selected RANLP-07 papers is
  
under print.
  
 
  
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
  
•       Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine),
  
•       Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh),
  
•       Shalom Lappin (King’s College, London),
  
•       Massimo Poesio (University of Trento and University of Essex).
  
 
  
CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
  
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
  
 
  
CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
  
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  
 
  
The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over
  
the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference
  
website. After the review, the list of all reviewers will be announced at
  
the website as well.
  
 
  
SUBMISSION
  
People interested in participating should submit a paper, poster or demo
  
following the instructions provided at the conference website. The review
  
will be blind, so the article text should not reveal the authors' names.
  
Author identification should be done in additional page of the conference
  
management system.
  
 
  
TUTORIALS 12-13 September 2009:
  
Four half-day tutorials will be organised at 12-13 September 2009. The
  
list of tutorial lecturers includes:
  
•       Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine),
  
•       Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
  
 
  
WORKSHOPS 17-18 September 2009:
  
Post-conference workshops will be organised at 17-18 September 2009. All
  
workshops will publish hard-copy proceedings, which will be distributed at
  
the event. Workshop papers might be listed in the ACL Anthology as well
  
(depending on the workshop organisers). The list of RANLP-09 workshops
  
includes:
  
•       Semantic Roles on Human Language Technology Applications, organised by
  
Paloma Moreda, Rafael Muсoz and Manuel Palomar,
  
•       Partial Parsing 2: Between Chunking and Deep Parsing, organised by Adam
  
Przepiorkowski, Jakub Piskorski and Sandra Kuebler,
  
•       1st Workshop on Definition Extraction, organised by Gerardo Eugenio
  
Sierra Martнnez and Caroline Barriere,
  
•       Evaluation of Resources and Tools for Central and Eastern European
  
languages, organised by Cristina Vertan, Stelios Piperidis and Elena
  
Paskaleva,
  
•       Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains,
  
organised by Nuria Bel, Erhard Hinrichs, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova,
  
•       Natural Language Processing methods and corpora in translation,
  
lexicography, and language learning, organised by Viktor Pekar, Iustina
  
Narcisa Ilisei, and Silvia Bernardini,
  
•       Events in Emerging Text Types (eETTs), organised by Constantin Orasan,
  
Laura Hasler, and Corina Forascu,
  
•       Biomedical Information Extraction, organised by Guergana Savova,
  
Vangelis Karkaletsis, and Galia Angelova.
  
 
  
 
  
IMPORTANT DATES:
  
 
  
Conference paper submission notification: 6 April 2009
  
Conference paper submission deadline: 13 April 2009
  
Conference paper acceptance notification: 1 June 2009
  
Final versions of conference papers submission: 13 July 2009
  
 
  
Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 5 June 2009
  
Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 20 July 2009
  
Final versions of workshop papers submission (suggested): 24 August 2009
  
 
  
RANLP-09 tutorials: 12-13 September 2009 (Saturday-Sunday)
  
RANLP-09 conference: 14-16 September 2009 (Monday-Wednesday)
  
RANLP-09 workshops: 17-18 September 2009 (Thursday-Friday)
  
 
  
For further information about the conference, please visit the conference
  
site http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009.
  
 
  
 
  
THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-09
  
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, Chair of the Org.
  
Committee
  
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
  
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Chair of the Programme
  
Committee
  
Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers)
  
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
  
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop Coordinator)
  
 
  
e-mail: ranlp09 [AT] lml (dot) bas (dot)