Dear ISCA members,
The election for nine new ISCA Board members is now complete. The
results are as follows:
338 valid ballots were received during the election period, and the
following nine candidates were elected as ISCA Board members for a
period of four years from September 2009 (members are listed
alphabetically):
Jean-Francois BONASTRE (France)
Nick CAMPBELL (Ireland)
Keikichi HIROSE (Japan)
David HOUSE (Sweden)
Haizhou LI (Singapore)
Douglas O'SHAUGHNESSY (Canada)
Michael PICHENY (USA)
Yannis STYLIANOU (Greece)
Isabel TRANCOSO (Portugal)
Many thanks to all of you who took part in the election.
On behalf of the ISCA Board, I would also like to encourage you to
attend the ISCA General Assembly which will take place in Brighton in
conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2009. The General Assembly is open to all
members of ISCA and provides an excellent opportunity for you to
actively participate in the meeting and propose suggestions to help
make our association even better.
Looking forward to seeing you in Brighton.
Best regards,
Bernd Möbius
ISCA Treasurer

As SPLC is moving into it's 9 th year of existence, the The ISCA Speaker and Language Characterization (SpLC) SIG plans to hold elections again during the next Odyssey Workshop to replace its current Chairpersons Joe Campbell and Doug Reynolds after a long turn resulting in a very active and growing SIG group.

The SpLC's current Board Members are: Lukáš Burget & Honza Černocký (Brno University of Technology), Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France), Niko Brümmer (Agnitio, South Africa), Joseph Campbell, & Douglas Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA), Alvin Martin (NIST, USA), and Kay Berkling (Inline Internet Online Dienste GmbH, Germany).The SpLC's Secretary and Liaison Representative is now Kay Berkling (Germany), who replaced Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau (France). 
The SpLC's main activity is to support the Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop that takes place every other year and has been a steady and important asset to the field.

A successful Speaker Odyssey workshop was held in 2008 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, co-hosted by 'Spescom DataVoice' and 'Stellenbosch University Digital Signal Processing Group' and co-chaired by Niko Brümmer and Prof. Johan du Preez.

The series of Speaker and Language Characterization Workshop has moved on to be hosted by Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic as the 7^th workshop in taking place June 28^th -July 1^st 2010. Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capital of Moravia. The city has a local airport and can be easily reached from international airports of Prague (200 km) and Vienna (130 km). Odyssey will take place in the scenic campus of BUT's Faculty of Information Technology featuring middle-age Cartesian monastery and modern lecture halls (see _http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/_) .

While enjoying this setting, four days of intensive program will await the participants. Judging by the 2008 workshop, the program will include lots of speaker recognition and classification with some language identification. As our website (http://_www.speakerodyssey.com <http://www.speakerodyssey.com/>_) states, topics of interest include speaker and language recognition verification, identification, segmentation, and clustering): text-dependent and -independent speaker recognition; multispeaker training and detection; speaker characterization and adaptation; features for speaker recognition; robustness in channels; robust classification and fusion; speaker recognition corpora and evaluation; use of extended training data; speaker recognition with speech recognition; forensics; speaker and language confidence estimation.

In 2010, we also look forward to receiving submissions in multimodality, and multimedia speaker recognition; dialect, and accent recognition; speaker synthesis and transformation; biometrics; human recognition of speaker and language; and commercial applications.

As usual, the NIST 2010 Speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) workshop will precede Odyssey and will take place also in Brno, 24-25 June 2010. For participants attending both the NIST workshop and Odyssey, social activities will be organized on the weekend 26-27 June.

ISCA grants are available to enable students and young scientists to participate and we expect to have a large student participation due to the convenient location.

Kay Berkling

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

Call for Papers

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:
---------------
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:
--------------
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

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.
La maîtrise de l’anglais est exigée pour évoluer dans un groupe à envergure internationale.
Vos qualités d’analyse et de synthèse, votre sens du service et de l’engagement client vous permettront de relever le challenge que nous vous proposons.

PhD Position in The Auckland University - New Zealand Speech recognition for Healthcare Robotics Description:  This project is the speech recognition component of a larger project for a speech enabled command module with verbal feedback software to facilitate interaction between aged people and robots. Including: speech generation and empathetic speech expression by the robot, speech recognition by the robot. For more details please refer to the link:  https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/display/csihealthbots/Speech+recognition+PhD

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POSITION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION, PROCESSING AND SYNTHESIS =========================================================================

The position is available immediately in the Speech group of the Analysis/Synthesis team at Ircam.
The Analysis/Synthesis team undertakes research and development
centered on new and advanced algorithms for analysis, synthesis and
transformation of audio signals, and, in particular, speech.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
A full-time position is open for research and development of advanced statistics
and signal processing algorithms in the field of speech recognition,
transformation and synthesis.
http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn.html  (projects Rhapsodie, Respoken,
Affective Avatars, Vivos, among others)
The applications in view are, for example,
- Transformation of the identity, type and nature of a voice
- Text-to-Speech and expressive Speech Synthesis
- Synthesis from actor and character recordings.
The principal task is the design and the development of new algorithms
for some of the subjects above and in collaboration with the other
members of the Speech group. The research environment is Linux, Matlab
and various scripting languages like Perl. The development environment
is C/C++, for Windows in particular.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE:
O Excellent experience of research in statistics, speech and signal processing
O Experience in speech recognition, automatic segmentation (e.g. HTK)
O Experience of C++ development
O Good knowledge of UNIX and Windows environments
O High productivity, methodical work, and excellent programming style.

AVAILABILITY:
The position is available in the Analysis/Synthesis team of the Research
and Ddevelopment department of Ircam to start as soon as possible.

DURATION:
The initial contract is for 1 year, and could be prolonged.

EEC WORKING PAPERS:
In order to be able to begin immediately, the candidate SHALL HAVE valid EEC working papers.

SALARY:
According to formation and experience.

TO APPLY:
Please send your CV describing in a very detailed way the level of knowledge,
expertise and experience in the fields mentioned above (and any other
relevant information, recommendations in particular) preferably by email to:

 Xavier.Rodet@ircam.fr (Xavier Rodet, Head of the Analysis/Synthesis team)

Or by fax: (33 1) 44 78 15 40, attention of Xavier Rodet

Or by post to: Xavier Rodet, IRCAM, 1 Place Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France 

 Several Ph.D. Positions and Ph.D. or Postdoc Scholarships, Universität Bielefeld

-       speech synthesis and/or recognition

-       discourse prosody

-       laboratory phonology

-       speech and language rhythm research

-       multimodal speech (technology)

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PhD POSITION in MACHINE TRANSLATION AND SPEECH UNDERSTANDING (starting
09/09)
=============================================================================

The PORT-MEDIA (ANR CONTINT 2008-2011) is a cooperative project
sponsored by the French National Research Agency, between the University
of Avignon, the University of Grenoble, the University of Le Mans, CNRS
at Nancy and ELRA (European Language Resources Association).  PORT-MEDIA
will address the multi-domain and multi-lingual robustness and
portability of spoken language understanding systems. More specifically,
the overall objectives of the project can be summarized as:
- robustness: integration/coupling of the automatic speech recognition
component in the spoken language understanding process.
- portability across domains and languages: evaluation of the genericity
and adaptability of the approaches implemented in the
understanding systems, and development of new techniques inspired by
machine translation approaches.
- representation: evaluation of new rich structures for high-level
semantic knowledge representation.

The PhD thesis will focus on the multilingual portability of speech
understanding systems. For example, the candidate will investigate
techniques to fast adapt an understanding system from one language to
another and creating low-cost resources with (semi) automatic methods,
for instance by using automatic alignment techniques and lightly
supervised translations. The main contribution will be to fill the gap
between the techniques currently used in the statistical machine
translation and spoken language understanding fields.

The thesis will be co-supervised by Fabrice Lefèvre, Assistant Professor
at LIA (University of Avignon) and Laurent Besacier, Assistant Professor
at LIG (University of Grenoble). The candidate will spend 18 months at
LIG then 18 months at LIA.

The salary of a PhD position is roughly 1,300€ net per month. Applicants
should hold a strong university degree entitling them to start a
doctorate (Masters/diploma or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
(Computer Science, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, etc).
The applicants should be fluent in English. Competence in French is
optional, though applicants will be encouraged to acquire this skill
during training. All applicants should have very good programming skills.

For further information, please contact Fabrice Lefèvre (Fabrice.Lefevre
at univ-avignon.fr) AND Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr).

====================================================================================
Sujet de thèse en Traduction Automatique et Compréhension de la Parole
(début 09/09)
====================================================================================

Le projet PORT-MEDIA (ANR CONTINT 2008-2011) concerne la robustesse et
la portabilité multidomaine et multilingue des systèmes de compréhension
de l'oral. Les partenaires sont le LIG, le LIA, le LORIA, le LIUM et
ELRA (European Language Ressources Association). Plus précisément, les
trois objectifs principaux du projet concernent :
-la robustesse et l'intégration/couplage du composant de reconnaissance
automatique de la parole dans le processus de compréhension.
-la portabilité vers un nouveau domaine ou langage : évaluation des
niveaux de généricité et d'adaptabilité des approches implémentées dans
les systèmes de compréhension.
-l’utilisation de représentations sémantiques de haut niveau pour
l’interaction langagière.

Ce sujet de thèse concerne essentiellement la portabilité multilingue
des différents composants d’un système de compréhension automatique ;
l’idée étant d’utiliser, par exemple, des techniques d’alignement
automatique et de traduction pour adapter rapidement un système de
compréhension d’une langue vers une autre, en créant des ressources à
faible coût de façon automatique ou semi-automatique. L'idée forte est
de rapprocher les techniques de traduction automatique et de
compréhension de la parole.

Cette thèse est un co-encadrement entre deux laboratoires (Fabrice
Lefevre, LIA & Laurent Besacier, LIG). Les 18 premiers mois auront lieu
au LIG, les 18 suivants au LIA.

Le salaire pour un etudiant en thèse est d'environ 1300€ net par mois.
Nous recherchons des étudiants ayant un Master (ou équivalent) mention
Recherche dans le domaine de l'Informatique, et des compétences dans les
domaines suivants : traitement des langues écrites et/ou parlées,
apprentissage automatique...

Pour de plus amples informations ou candidater, merci de contacter
Fabrice Lefèvre (Fabrice.Lefevre at univ-avignon.fr) ET Laurent Besacier
(Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr).

-------------------------- 

Sujet de thèse : Caractérisation et identification automatique de dialectes
Directeur de thèse : Régine André-Obrecht
Encadrement : Jérôme Farinas
Lieu : IRIT (Toulouse)
Sélection : aura lieu devant l'Ecole Doctorale MITT lee 24 et 25 juin 2009
Connaissances et compétences requises : informatique (traitement automatique de la parole), linguistique (phonologe, prosodie)
Description :
Le recherche en traitement automatique de la parole s'intéresse de plus en plus au traitement de grandes collections de données, dans des conditions de parole spontanée et conversationnelle. Les performances sont dépendantes de toutes les variabilités de la parole. Une de ces variabilités concerne l'appartenance dialectale du locuteur, qui induit de la variabilité tant au niveau de la prononciation phonétique, mais également au niveau de la morphologie des mots et de la prosodie. Nous proposons de réaliser un sujet de recherche sur la caractérisation automatique dialectale des locuteurs, en vue de diriger l'adaptation des systèmes de reconnaissance de la parole : la sélection de modèles acoustiques et prosodiques adaptées permettront d'améliorer des performances dans des conditions de reconnaissance indépendante du locuteur. La réalisation d'un tel système devra s'appuyer sur les avancées récentes en identification de la langue au niveau de la modélisation acoustique par exploration de réseaux de phonèmes et proposer une modélisation fine basée sur la micro et macro prosodie. Les bases de données disponibles au sein du projet sur la phonologie du français contemporain (http://www.projet-pfc.net/) permettront de disposer d'un large éventail de données sur les variances de prononciation. Le système final sera évalué lors des campagnes internationales organisées par le NIST sur la vérification de la langue, qui prennent maintenant en compte les variances dialectales (mandarin, anglais, espagnol et hindi) : http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/lre/.

Thèse : allocation MENRT (+ possibilité monitorat)

DeadLine: 15 juin 2009 (les candidats sélectionnés par les encadrants devront faire une présentation orale vers le 23 juin devant l’école doctorale : contacter senac@irit.fr pour plus de précisions)

Date : à partir de Septembre 2009

Durée : 3 ans

Intitulé du sujet de thèse proposé :

Méthodes d’analyse et de structuration de contenus audiovisuels pour des services de télévision à la demande

Lieu : Laboratoire IRIT – UPS UMR 5505 (Toulouse III)

Nom, prénom et courriel des encadrants : Hervé Bredin bredin@irit.fr et Christine Sénac senac@irit.fr

Description du projet :

La télévision vit actuellement une transformation profonde, portée par la numérisation de sa diffusion et par l’apparition de nouveaux canaux de distribution de l’offre de contenus audiovisuels.  Citons en particulier les services de vidéo à la demande et la généralisation des « set-top box » permettant l’enregistrement de plusieurs chaînes de télévision en simultanée et sur une longue durée (jusqu’à une semaine en continu). Cette profusion de contenus (des millions d’heures de télévision sont disponibles) rend indispensables des fonctionnalités de recherche et de navigation automatiques dans ces catalogues numériques.

Les enregistrements récurrents (quotidiens ou hebdomadaires), effectués classiquement sur ce type de dispositifs, permettent de constituer des "collections". Ces collections peuvent être gérées comme un ensemble homogène de contenus présentant tous les mêmes caractéristiques structurelles, stylistiques, etc. On peut donc penser que l'identification automatique de ces caractéristiques communes doit permettre de déployer des services adaptés tels que le résumé automatique permettant de prendre connaissance rapidement de l'intégralité d'une collection ou d'un enregistrement particulier de celle-ci.

Le caractère novateur de ce programme de recherche réside dans l’application de techniques de résumé automatique adaptées à une collection, permettant ainsi de délimiter un cadre d’exploitation précis et par conséquent de définir clairement un plan d’évaluation.

Cette question pose un triple problème : celui de la réalisation d'une procédure automatique et sans connaissance a priori sur la nature de la collection permettant d'identifier les caractéristiques communes (on pourra s'appuyer sur les résultats préliminaires décrits dans [1]) ; celui de la définition d'un mécanisme de constitution automatique de résumé exploitant l'information de ces caractéristiques communes ; et celui de l'évaluation qualitative du service correspondant.

L’équipe SAMoVA possède une très grande expérience dans la structuration, l’analyse et la modélisation de documents audiovisuels. En témoignent les différentes participations aux campagnes d’évaluation internationales (telles que TRECVid [2] ou Ester) et au projet Quaero [3]. L’étudiant pourra en outre mener des expérimentations sur la plateforme OSIRIM [4] qui, d'ici sa phase de mise en exploitation prévue pour juin 2009, permettra en particulier d'acquérir en simultané plus de 15 flux audiovisuels. Il sera ainsi possible de publier des résultats validés sur des quantités de données rivalisant avec seulement 4 ou 5 autres laboratoires dans le monde (INA, IRISA en France, ou Carnegie Mellon aux USA, etc.). Les publications pourront être soumises à des conférences de renommée internationale telles que ACM Multimedia, IEEE ICASSP, CBMI, etc.

[1] Siba Haidar, Philippe Joly, Bilal Chebaro. Mining for Video Production Invariants to Measure Style Similarity. Dans / In : International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, Vol. 21 N. 7, p. 747-763, juillet / july 2006. 

[2] H. Bredin, D. Byrne, H. Lee, N. O’Connor, and G. J. Jones. Dublin City University at TRECVid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarisation Task, in TRECVID 2008, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2008.

[3] http://www.quaero.org/

[4] http://www.irit.fr/OSIRIM/

Compétences requises:

Cette thèse s’adresse aux étudiants en possession d’un master en informatique ayant de bonnes bases en mathématiques appliquées. Il serait également souhaitable d’avoir des bases en traitement du signal ou de l’image.

PhD position in Automatic Speech Recognition
=====================================

Starting in september-october 2009.

The ASH (Attelage de Systèmes Hétérogènes) project is a project funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency). Three French academic laboratories are involved: LIUM (University of Le Mans), LIA (University of Avignon) and IRISA (Rennes).

The main objective of the ASH project is to define and experiment an original methodological framework for the integration of heterogeneous automatic speech recognition systems. Integrating heterogeneous systems, and hence heterogeneous sources of knowledge, is a key issue in ASR but also in many other applicative fields concerned with knowledge integration and multimodality.

Clearly, the lack of a generic framework to integrate systems operating with different viewpoints, different knowledges and at different levels is a strong limitation which needs to be overcome: the definition of such a framework is the fundamental challenge of this work.

By defining a rigorous and generic framework to integrate systems, significant scientific progresses are expected in automatic speech recognition. Another objective of this project is to enable the efficient and reliable processing of large data streams by combining systems on the y.
At last, we expect to develop an on-the-fly ASR system as a real-time demonstrator of this new approach.

The thesis will be co-supervised by Paul Deléglise, Professeur at LIUM, Yannick Estève, Assistant Professor  at LIUM and Georges Linarès, Assistant Professor at LIA. The candidate will work at Le Mans (LIUM), but will regularly spend a few days in Avignon (LIA)

Applicants should hold a strong university degree entitling them to start a doctorate (Masters/diploma or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, etc).

The applicants for this PhD position should be fluent in English or in French. Competence in French is optional, though applicants will be encouraged to acquire this skill during training. This position is funded by the ANR.

Strong software skills are required, especially Unix/linux, C, Java, and a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

Contacts:
Yannick Estève: yannick.esteve@lium.univ-lemans.fr
Georges Linarès: georges.linares@univ-avignon.fr 

Proposition de sujet de thèse 2009
Ecole Doctorale EDISCE (http://www-sante.ujf-grenoble.fr/edisce/)
Financement ANR (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/~schwartz/Multistap/Multistap.html)

Analyse de scènes de parole : le problème du liage audio-visuo-moteur à la lumière de données comportementales et neurophysiologiques


Deux questions importantes traversent les recherches actuelles sur le traitement cognitif de la parole : la question de la multisensorialité (comment se combinent les informations auditives et visuelles dans le cerveau) et celle des interactions perceptuo-motrices.

Une question manquante est selon nous celle du « liage » (binding) : comment dans ces processus de traitement auditif ou audiovisuel, le cerveau parvient-il à « mettre ensemble » les informations pertinentes, à éliminer les « bruits », à construire les « flux de parole » pertinents avant la prise de décision ? Plus précisément, les objets élémentaires de la scène de parole sont les phonèmes, et des modules spécialisés auditifs, visuels, articulatoires contribuent au processus d'identification phonétique, mais il n'a pas été possible jusqu'à présent d'isoler leur contribution respective, ni la manière dont ces contributions sont fusionnées. Des expériences récentes permettent d'envisager le processus d'identification phonétique comme étant de nature non hériarchique, et essentiellement instancié par des opérations associatives. La thèse consistera à développer d’autres paradigmes expérimentaux originaux, mais aussi à mettre en place des expériences de neurophysiologie et neuroimagerie (EEG, IRMf) disponibles au laboratoire et dans son environnement Grenoblois, afin de déterminer la nature et le fonctionnement des processus de groupement audiovisuel des scènes de parole, en relation avec le mécanismes de production.

Cette thèse se réalisera dans le cadre d’un projet ANR « Multistap » (Multistabilité et groupement perceptif dans l’audition et dans la parole » http://www.icp.inpg.fr/~schwartz/Multistap/Multistap.html). Ce projet fournira à la fois le support de financement pour la bourse de thèse, et un environnement stimulant pour le développement des recherches, en partenariat avec des équipes de spécialistes d’audition et de vision, de Paris (DEC ENS), Lyon (LNSCC) et Toulouse (Cerco).

Responsables
Jean-Luc Schwartz (DR CNRS, HDR) : 04 76 57 47 12,
Frédéric Berthommier (CR CNRS) : 04 76 57 48 28
Jean-Luc.Schwartz, Frederic.Berthommier@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr

Thèse Cifre indexation de données multimédia
These
DeadLine: 01/11/2009
merialdo@eurecom.fr
http://bmgroup.eurecom.fr/
The Multimedia Communications Department of EURECOM, in partnership with the travel service provider company AMADEUS, invites applications for a PhD position on multimedia indexing. The goal of the thesis is to study new techniques to organize large quantities of multimedia information, specifically images and videos, for improving services to travelers. This includes managing images and videos from providers as well as from users about places, locations, events, etc… The approach will be based on the most recent techniques in multimedia indexing, and will benefit from the strong research experience of EURECOM in this domain, joint to the industrial experience of AMADEUS.
We are looking for very good and motivated students, with a strong knowledge in image and video processing, statistical and probabilistic modeling, for the theoretical part, and a good C/C++ programming ability for the experimental part. English is required. The successful candidate will be employed by AMADEUS in Sophia Antipolis, and will strongly interact with the researchers at EURECOM.
Applicants should email a resume, letter of motivation, and all relevant information to.
Prof. Bernard Merialdo
merialdo@eurecom.fr
The project will be conducted within AMADEUS (http://www.amadeus.com/), a world leader in provision of solutions to the travel industry to manage the distribution and selling of travel services. The company is the leading Global Distribution System (GDS) and the biggest processor of travel bookings in the world. Their main development center is located in Sophia Antipolis, France, and employs more than 1200 engineers. The research will be supervised by EURECOM (http://www.eurecom.fr), a graduate school and research center in communication systems, whose activity includes corporate, multimedia and mobile communications. EURECOM currently counts about 20 professors, 10 post-docs, 170 MS and 60 PhD students, and is involved in many European research projects and joint collaborations with industry. EURECOM is also located in Sophia-Antipolis, a major European technology park for telecommunications research and development in the French Riviera.
http://gdr-isis.org/rilk/gdr/Kiosque/poste.php?jobid=3267

PhD POSITION in MACHINE TRANSLATION AND SPEECH UNDERSTANDING (starting 09/09)
=============================================================================

The PORT-MEDIA (ANR CONTINT 2008-2011) is a cooperative project sponsored by the French National Research Agency, between the University of Avignon, the University of Grenoble, the University of Le Mans, CNRS at Nancy and ELRA (European Language Resources Association).  PORT-MEDIA will address the multi-domain and multi-lingual robustness and portability of spoken language understanding systems. More specifically, the overall objectives of the project can be summarized as:
- robustness: integration/coupling of the automatic speech recognition component in the spoken language understanding process.
- portability across domains and languages: evaluation of the genericity and adaptability of the approaches implemented in the
understanding systems, and development of new techniques inspired by machine translation approaches.
- representation: evaluation of new rich structures for high-level semantic knowledge representation.

The PhD thesis will focus on the multilingual portability of speech understanding systems. For example, the candidate will investigate techniques to fast adapt an understanding system from one language to another and creating low-cost resources with (semi) automatic methods, for instance by using automatic alignment techniques and lightly supervised translations. The main contribution will be to fill the gap between the techniques currently used in the statistical machine translation and spoken language understanding fields.

The thesis will be co-supervised by Fabrice Lefèvre, Assistant Professor at LIA (University of Avignon) and Laurent Besacier, Assistant Professor at LIG (University of Grenoble). The candidate will spend 18 months at LIG then 18 months at LIA.

The salary of a PhD position is roughly 1,300€ net per month. Applicants should hold a strong university degree entitling them to start a doctorate (Masters/diploma or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, etc). The applicants should be fluent in English. Competence in French is optional, though applicants will be encouraged to acquire this skill during training. All applicants should have very good programming skills.

For further information, please contact Fabrice Lefèvre (Fabrice.Lefevre at univ-avignon.fr) AND Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr).

====================================================================================
Sujet de thèse en Traduction Automatique et Compréhension de la Parole (début 09/09)
====================================================================================

Le projet PORT-MEDIA (ANR CONTINT 2008-2011) concerne la robustesse et la portabilité multidomaine et multilingue des systèmes de compréhension de l'oral. Les partenaires sont le LIG, le LIA, le LORIA, le LIUM et ELRA (European Language Ressources Association). Plus précisément, les trois objectifs principaux du projet concernent :
-la robustesse et l'intégration/couplage du composant de reconnaissance automatique de la parole dans le processus de compréhension.
-la portabilité vers un nouveau domaine ou langage : évaluation des niveaux de généricité et d'adaptabilité des approches implémentées dans les systèmes de compréhension.
-l’utilisation de représentations sémantiques de haut niveau pour l’interaction langagière.

Ce sujet de thèse concerne essentiellement la portabilité multilingue des différents composants d’un système de compréhension automatique ; l’idée étant d’utiliser, par exemple, des techniques d’alignement automatique et de traduction pour adapter rapidement un système de compréhension d’une langue vers une autre, en créant des ressources à faible coût de façon automatique ou semi-automatique. L'idée forte est de rapprocher les techniques de traduction automatique et de compréhension de la parole.

Cette thèse est un co-encadrement entre deux laboratoires (Fabrice Lefevre, LIA & Laurent Besacier, LIG). Les 18 premiers mois auront lieu au LIG, les 18 suivants au LIA.

Le salaire pour un etudiant en thèse est d'environ 1300€ net par mois. Nous recherchons des étudiants ayant un Master (ou équivalent) mention Recherche dans le domaine de l'Informatique, et des compétences dans les domaines suivants : traitement des langues écrites et/ou parlées, apprentissage automatique...

Pour de plus amples informations ou candidater, merci de contacter Fabrice Lefèvre (Fabrice.Lefevre at univ-avignon.fr) ET Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr). 

Two post-doctoral positions in the framework of the Carnegie Mellon
University-Portugal program are available at the Spoken Language Systems
Lab (www.l2f.inesc-id.pt), INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal.
Positions are for a fixed term contract of length up to two and a half
years, renewable in one year intervals, in the scope of the research
projects PT-STAR (Speech Translation Advanced Research to and from
Portuguese) and REAP.PT (Computer Aided Language Learning – Reading
Practice), both financed by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology).
The starting date for these positions is September 2009, or as soon as
possible thereafter.
Candidates should send their CVs (in .pdf format) before July 15th, to
the email addresses given below, together with a motivation letter.
Questions or other clarification requests should be emailed to the same
addresses.
======== PT-STAR (project CMU-PT/HuMach/0039/2008) ========
Topic: Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation
Description: We seek candidates with excellent knowledge in statistical
approaches to machine translation (and if possible also speech
technologies) and strong programming skills. Familiarity with the
Portuguese language is not at all mandatory, although the main source
and target languages are Portuguese/English.
Email address for applications: lcoheur at l2f dot inesc-id dot pt
======== REAP.PT (project CMU-PT/HuMach/0053/2008) ========
Topic: Computer Aided Language Learning
Description: We seek candidates with excellent knowledge in automatic
question generation (multiple-choice synonym questions, related word
questions, and cloze questions) and/or measuring the reading difficulty
of a text (exploring the combination of lexical features, grammatical
features and statistical models). Familiarity with a romance language is
recommended, since the target language is Portuguese.
Email address for applications: nuno dot mamede at inesc-id dot pt

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

A new book series is going to be announced in a few weeks by a major publisher under the (tentative) title of  Mathematics, Computing, Language, and the Life: Frontiers in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Theory  SERIES DESCRIPTION:  Language theory, as originated from Chomsky's seminal work in the fifties last century and in parallel to Turing-inspired automata theory, was first applied to natural language syntax within the context of the first unsuccessful attempts to achieve reliable machine translation prototypes. After this, the theory proved to be very valuable in the study of programming languages and the theory of computing.  In the last 15-20 years, language and automata theory has experienced quick theoretical developments as a consequence of the emergence of new interdisciplinary domains and also as the result of demands for application to a number of disciplines, most notably: natural language processing, computational biology, natural computing, programming, and artificial intelligence.  The series will collect recent research on either foundational or applied issues, and is addressed to graduate students as well as to post-docs and academics.  TOPIC CATEGORIES:  A. Theory: language and automata theory, combinatorics on words, descriptional and computational complexity, semigroups, graphs and graph transformation, trees, computability B. Natural language processing: mathematics of natural language processing, finite-state technology, languages and logics, parsing, transducers, text algorithms, web text retrieval C. Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and programming: patterns, pattern matching and pattern recognition, models of concurrent systems, Petri nets, models of pictures, fuzzy languages, grammatical inference and algorithmic learning, language-based cryptography, data and image compression, automata for system analysis and program verification D. Bio-inspired computing and natural computing: cellular automata, symbolic neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, DNA computing, molecular computing, biomolecular nanotechnology, circuit theory, quantum computing, chemical and optical computing, models of artificial life E. Bioinformatics: mathematical biology, string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics, mathematical evolutionary genomics, language processing of biological sequences, digital libraries  The connections of this broad interdisciplinary field with other areas include: computational linguistics, knowledge engineering, theoretical computer science, software science, molecular biology, etc.  The first volumes will be miscellaneous and will globally define the scope of the future series.  INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE:  Contributions are requested for the first five volumes. In principle, there will be no limit in length. All contributions will be submitted to strict peer-review. Collections of papers are also welcome.  Potential contributors should express their interest in being considered for the volumes by April 25, 2009 to carlos.martinvide@gmail.com  They should specify:  - the tentative title of the contribution, - the authors and affiliations, - a 5-10 line abstract, - the most appropriate topic category (A to E above).  A selection will be done immediately after, with invited authors submitting their contribution for peer-review by July 25, 2009.  The volumes are expected to appear in the first months of 2010.

Samy Bengio, Google Inc., Mountain View (CA), USA, bengio@google.com 

  Jeudi 18 juin 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe 

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Blaise POTARD
LORIA, Nancy

Inversion acoustique-articulatoire et animation de tête parlante

L'inversion acoustique-articulatoire (c'est-à-dire la détermination du mouvement des articulateurs – lèvres, langue, mâchoire, larynx— à partir du signal acoustique de parole) est un problème ancien mais toujours d'actualité. Les premières approches se basaient sur l'analyse par synthèse, en utilisant des modèles simplifiés du comportement acoustique de l'appareil vocal humain. Depuis le milieu des années 90 environ, du fait de l'amélioration des techniques d'imagerie médicale qui permettent d'enregistrer des corpus de données articulatoires conséquents, la plupart des approches utilisent désormais des techniques d'apprentissages – HMM, réseau de neurones, réseau bayésiens...— sur de gros corpus de données, qui permettent d'obtenir d'excellents résultats, mais souvent uniquement pour locuteur donné. La flexibilité des méthodes utilisant l'analyse par synthèse, en particulier leur capacité à s'adapter à différents locuteurs, reste cependant appréciable.
Je présenterai dans cet exposé la technique d'inversion par tabulation développée au cours de ma thèse, et expliquerai comment elle peut s'adapter à l'inversion sur un corpus de données naturelles. Je présenterai également une méthode d'inversion alternative basée sur la régulation variationnelle ne nécessitant pas une trajectoire initiale proche de la solution cherchée. Je présenterai ensuite mes travaux actuels sur l'animation par HMM de la tête parlante virtuelle développée au LORIA.

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

Jeudi 25 juin 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe
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Michèle Olivieri
Laboratoire Bases, Corpus et Langage, Nice - Sophia Antipolis

Le THESOC et ses exploitations

Le Thesaurus Occitan ou THESOC est une base de données multimédias dont le but est de rassembler toutes les données dialectales recueillies en domaine d'oc, afin de les rendre accessibles au public (1), aux chercheurs et aux pédagogues. Centralisé à Nice dans le cadre de l’UMR 6039 du CNRS « Bases, Corpus, Langage » (BCL), sous la direction de Jean-Philippe Dalbera, il s’agit d’un programme inter-universitaire qui associe différentes équipes. Développé depuis 1992, le THESOC contient notamment :
- des données linguistiques et péri-linguistiques issues d’enquêtes de terrain : cartes et carnets d’enquêtes des Atlas linguistiques (2), monographies, enregistrements sonores, documents iconographiques ;
- des données linguistiques procédant d’analyses déjà réalisées : lemmatisations, morphologie, étymologie, microtoponymie ;
- des données bibliographiques ;
- des outils d’analyse : représentations cartographiques, instruments d’analyse diachronique, procédures de cartographie comparative, instruments d’analyse morphologique.
Les données brutes figurant dans la base ont toutes une caractéristique commune : elles procèdent de sources orales et sont précisément localisées, ce qui constitue une condition essentielle pour l’étude de la variation diatopique. En outre, le THESOC permet de faire entendre les sons enregistrés au cours des enquêtes, ce qui garantit la réalité des faits considérés et transcrits.
Il s’agit enfin d’un objet à géométrie variable qui envisage toutes sortes d’exploitations grâce à des menus spécifiques, qui intègre toutes sortes de documents, de telle sorte que le THESOC se présente comme un outil offrant à la fois (mais toujours séparément) des données linguistiques quasi brutes, des données ayant fait l'objet d'analyses et de traitements et des outils d'investigation.
Nous évoquerons alors les travaux de recherche menés par l'équipe de dialectologie de BCL, qui s'appuient sur les données et les outils du THESOC et permettent de renouveler les points de vue et les perspectives en linguistique générale. D'abord, nous présenterons succinctement les découvertes de Jean-Philippe Dalbera (3) en matière d'étymologie et de reconstruction lexicale à l'aide de quelques exemples. Puis, nous montrerons comment l'étude de la microvariation dialectale permet de mieux appréhender le changement morpho-syntaxique, en examinant la question des clitiques sujets dans les langues romanes (4).

1. Le THESOC est accessible en consultation sur Internet à l’adresse : http://thesaurus.unice.fr.
2. Atlas Linguistiques de la France par régions, éditions du C.N.R.S.
3. Dalbera, Jean-Philippe, 2006, Des dialectes au langage : Une archéologie du sens, Paris, Champion.
4. Oliviéri, Michèle. 2009. “Syntactic Parameters and Reconstruction.” In: G.A. Kaiser & E.-M. Remberger (eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on „Null-Subjects, Expletives, and Locatives in Romance“. Konstanz: Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz (= Arbeitspapier 123), 27-46 (http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/publ/PDF/ap123.pdf).

Salle de réunion du Département Parole et Cognition (B314)
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Jeudi 9 juillet 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe
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Iiro Jääskeläinen
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Helsinki

Titre à venir

Résumé à venir

Salle de réunion du Département Parole et Cognition (B314)
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Jeudi 30 juillet 2009, 13h30 – Séminaire externe
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James Bonaiuto
University of Southern California

Titre à venir

Résumé à venir

Salle de réunion du Département Parole et Cognition (B314)
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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   

**** NOTE: Deadline for 2-page submissions           ****
**** (posters and demos) has been extended to May 7. **** 

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 

Speaker Odyssey moving from South Africa to Czech Republic for 2010

A successful Speaker Odyssey workshop was held in 2008 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, co-hosted by ‘Spescom DataVoice’ and ‘Stellenbosch University Digital Signal Processing Group’ and co-chaired by Niko Brümmer and Prof. Johan du Preez.

The series of Speaker and Language Characterization Workshop has moved on to be hosted by Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic as the 7^th workshop in taking place June 28^th -July 1^st 2010. Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capital of Moravia. The city has a local airport and can be easily reached from international airports of Prague (200 km) and Vienna (130 km). Odyssey will take place in the scenic campus of BUT’s Faculty of Information Technology featuring middle-age Cartesian monastery and modern lecture halls (see _http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/_) .

While enjoying this setting, four days of intensive program will await the participants. Judging by the 2008 workshop, the program will include lots of speaker recognition and classification with some language identification. As our website (http://_www.speakerodyssey.com <http://www.speakerodyssey.com/>_) states, topics of interest include speaker and language recognition verification, identification, segmentation, and clustering): text-dependent and -independent speaker recognition; multispeaker training and detection; speaker characterization and adaptation; features for speaker recognition; robustness in channels; robust classification and fusion; speaker recognition corpora and evaluation; use of extended training data; speaker recognition with speech recognition; forensics; speaker and language confidence estimation.

In 2010, we also look forward to receiving submissions in multimodality, and multimedia speaker recognition; dialect, and accent recognition; speaker synthesis and transformation; biometrics; human recognition of speaker and language; and commercial applications.

As usual, the NIST 2010 Speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) workshop will precede Odyssey and will take place also in Brno, 24-25 June 2010. For participants attending both the NIST workshop and Odyssey, social activities will be organized on the weekend 26-27 June.

ISCA grants are available to enable students and young scientists to participate and we expect to have a large student participation due to the convenient location.

Conference
International avec Actes
Special issue on Scalable audio-content analysis
Eurasip Journal on audio, speech, and music processing
01/07/2009 - //
 
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/si/saca.html
The amount of easily-accessible audio, either 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 labeled. 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.
Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/guidelines.html. 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 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews September 1, 2009
Publication Date December 1, 2009
Lead Guest Editor
* Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University, PA 15213, USA
Guest Editors
* Paris Smaragdis, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Inc. Newton, MA 02466, USA
* Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, CA 94305-8180, USA
* Chung-Hsien Wu, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
* Liming Chen, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Ecole Centrale de Lyon University of Lyon, 69006 Lyon, France
* Hyoung-Gook Kim, Intelligent Multimedia Signal Processing Lab, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 139-701, South Korea
Conference  International avec Actes Special issue on Scalable audio-content analysis Eurasip Journal on audio, speech, and music processing 01/07/2009 - // DeadLine: 20090701 XXX YYY ZZZ http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/si/saca.html  The amount of easily-accessible audio, either 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 labeled. 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.  Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/guidelines.html. 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 1, 2009     First Round of Reviews	September 1, 2009     Publication Date	December 1, 2009  Lead Guest Editor      * Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University, PA 15213, USA  Guest Editors      * Paris Smaragdis, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Inc. Newton, MA 02466, USA     * Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, CA 94305-8180, USA     * Chung-Hsien Wu, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan     * Liming Chen, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Ecole Centrale de Lyon University of Lyon, 69006 Lyon, France     * Hyoung-Gook Kim, Intelligent Multimedia Signal Processing Lab, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 139-701, South Korea

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 participation:
16th International ECSE Summer School in
Novel Computing (Joensuu, FINLAND)
=========================================

University of Joensuu, Finland, announces the 16th International ECSE Summer School in Novel Computing:

           http://cs.joensuu.fi/ecse/

The summer school includes three independent courses, one in June and two in August:

June 8-10
    Jean-Luc LeBrun: Scientific Writing Skills
    http://www.scientific-writing.com/
    "Publish or perish, reviewers decide.
    Be cited or not, readers decide"

    Registration deadline: May 20, 2009

August 10-14 -- two parallel courses:
    Douglas A. Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
    "Speaker and Language Recognition"

    Paul De Bra (Eindhoven Univ Technology)
    "Platforms for Stories-Based Learning
    in Future Schools"

    Early registration deadline: June 15, 2009

In addition to high-quality lectures, the summer school offers an inspiring learning environment and relaxed social program, including the Finnish sauna, in the middle of North Carelia region. Joensuu is located next to the Russian border and about 400 km North-East from the capital of the country. It is a vivid student city with over 6000 students in the University of Joensuu and 3500 in North Karelia Polytechnic. The European Forest Institute, The University and many other institutes and export enterprises such as Abloy, LiteonMobile and John Deere give Joensuu an international flavour.

The summer school is organized by the Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland (http://cs.joensuu.fi). The research areas of the department include speech and image processing, educational technology, color research, and psychology of programming.

More information:

WWW:    http://cs.joensuu.fi/ecse/
e-mail: ecse09@cs.joensuu.fi 

 
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

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2009

13th-14th September, at Queen Mary University of London


*Overview and goals*

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) is an annual workshop designed for post-graduate students, post-docs and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop has three main goals:
- to offer an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research
- to provide young researchers with career advice from senior researchers and professionals from both academic and industrial backgrounds
- to develop a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field.

(Important note: There is no age restriction to participating in the workshop; the word 'young' is meant to indicate that it is targeted towards researchers who are at a relatively early stage in their career.)


*Topics and sessions*
Potential roundtable discussion topics include: best practices for conducting and evaluating user studies of spoken dialogue systems, the prosody of conversation, methods of analysis for dialogue systems, conversational agents and virtual characters,cultural adaptation of dialogue strategies, and user modelling.

YRRSDS’09 will feature:

- a senior researcher panel (both academia and industry)
- a demo and poster session
- a special session on frameworks and grand challenges for dialogue system evaluation
- a special session on EU projects related to spoken dialogue systems.

Previous workshops were held in Columbus (ACL 2008), Antwerp (INTERSPEECH 2007), Pittsburgh (INTERSPEECH 2006) and Lisbon (INTERSPEECH 2005).


*Workshop date*

YRRSDS'09 will take place on September 13th and 14th, 2009 (immediately after Interspeech and SIGDial 2009).


*Workshop location*

The 2009 YRRSDS will be held at Queen Mary University of London, one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. Queen Mary’s Mile End campus began life in 1887 as the People's Palace, a philanthropic endeavour to provide east Londoners with education and social activities, and is located in the heart of London's vibrant East End.


*Grants*

YRRSDS 2009 will be supported this year by ISCA, the International Speech Communication Association. ISCA will consider applications for a limited number of travel grants. Applications should be send directly to grants@isca-speech.org, details of the application process and forms are available from http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html.We are also negotiating with other supporters the possibility of offering a limited number of travel grants to students.


*Endorsements*

SIGDial, ISCA, Dialogs on Dialogs


*Sponsors*

Orange, Microsoft Research, AT&T


*Submission process*

Participants will be asked to submit a 2-page position paper based on a template provided by the organising committee. In their papers, authors will include a short biographical sketch, a brief statement of research interests, a description of their research work, and a short discussion of what they believe to be the most significant and interesting issues in spoken dialogue systems today and in the near future. Participants will also provide three suggestions for discussion topics.
Workshop attendance will be limited to 50 participants. Submissions will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. Submissions will be collated and made available to participants. We also plan to publish the position papers and presentations from the workshop on the web, subject to any sponsor or publisher constraints.

*Important Dates*

- Submissions open: May 15, 2009
- Submissions deadline: June 30, 2009
- Final notification: July 31, 2009

- Registration begins: TBD
- Registration deadline: TBD

- Interspeech: 6-10 September 2009
- SIGDial: 11-12 September, 2009
- YRR:  13-14 September, 2009

*More information on related websites*

- Young Researchers' Roundtable website: http://www.yrrsds.org/
- SIGDIAL 2009 conference website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop10/
- Interspeech 2009 website: http://www.interspeech2009.org/

*Organising Committee*

- David Díaz Pardo de Vera, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
- Milica Gašić, Cambridge University, UK
- François Mairesse, Cambridge University, UK
- Matthew Marge, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Joana Paulo Pardal, Technical University Lisbon, Portugal
- Ricardo Ribeiro, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal

*Local Organisers*

- Arash Eshghi, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Christine Howes, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Gregory Mills, Queen Mary University of London, UK

*Scientific Advisory Committee*

- Hua Ai, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- James Allen, University of Rochester, USA
- Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA
- Philippe Bretier, Orange Labs, France
- Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
- Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Luis Hernández Gómez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
- Carlos Gómez Gallo, University of Rochester, USA
- Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Nuno Mamede, Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID, Portugal
- David Martins de Matos, Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID, Portugal
- João Paulo Neto, Voice Interaction, Portugal
- Tim Paek, Microsoft Research
- Antoine Raux, Honda Research, USA
- Robert J. Ross, Universitat Bremen, Germany
- Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Mary Swift, University of Rochester, USA
- Isabel Trancoso, Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID, Portugal
- Tim Weale, The Ohio State University, USA
- Jason Williams, AT&T, USA
- Sabrina Wilske, Lang Tech and Cognitive Sys at Saarland University, Germany
- Andi Winterboer, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Craig Wootton, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Steve Young, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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) 

First Call for Papers

Student Research Workshop

14-15 September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria

associated with the International Conference RANLP-2009

/RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING/

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/stud-ranlp09

The International Conference RANLP 2009 would like to invite students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing work at the Student Research Workshop. This will provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss your work in progress or completed projects to an international research audience and receive feedback from senior researchers. The research being presented can come from any topic area within natural language processing and computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

Anaphora Resolution, Complexity, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse, Evaluation, Finite-State Technology, Formal Grammars and Languages, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Lexical Knowledge Acquisition, Lexicography, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Morphology, Natural Language Generation, Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Interraction, Natural Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Texts, Ontologies, Opinion Mining, Parsing, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Phonology, Post-Editing, Pragmatics and Dialogue, Question Answering, Semantics, Speech Recognition, Statistical Methods, Sublanguages and Controlled Languages, Syntax, Temporal Processing, Term Extraction and Automatic Indexing, Text Data Mining, Text Segmentation, Text Simplification, Text Summarisation, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Translation Technology, Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Word Sense Disambiguation.

All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions during the main conference days: 14-16 September 2009. The articles will be issued in special Student Session electronic proceedings.

            Important Dates

Submission deadline: 25 July
Acceptance notification: 20 August
Camera-ready deadline: 1 September

      Submission Requirements

All papers must be submitted in .doc or .pdf format and must be 4-8 pages long (including references). For format requirements please refer to the main RANLP website at http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009, Submission Info Section. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme Committee, who will feature both experienced researchers and PhD students nearing the completion of their PhD studies. The final decisions will be made based on these reviews. The submissions will have to specify the student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD).

            Programme Committee

To be announced in the Second Call for Papers.

            Organising Committee

Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Ivelina Nikolova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Natalia Konstantinova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

            For More Information

51st International Symposium ELMAR-2009
28-30 September 2009 Zadar, CROATIA
Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2009
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS IEEE Region 8 EURASIP - European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing IEEE Croatia Section IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY IEEE Xplore
INSPEC TOPICS --> Image and Video Processing --> Multimedia Communications --> Speech and Audio Processing --> Wireless Commununications --> Telecommunications --> Antennas and Propagation --> e-Learning and m-Learning --> Navigation Systems --> Ship Electronic Systems --> Power Electronics and Automation --> Naval Architecture --> Sea Ecology --> Special Sessions Proposals - A special session consist of 5-6 papers which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints
KEYNOTE TALKS
* Prof. Gregor Rozinaj,Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA: -Title to be announced soon.
* Mr. David Wood, European Broadcasting Union, Geneva, SWITZERLAND: What strategy and research agenda for Europe in 'new media'?
SUBMISSION
Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in conference proceedings available at the conference and abstracted/indexed in the IEEE Xplore and INSPEC database. More info is available here: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/ IMPORTANT: Web-based (online) paper submission of papers in PDF format is required for all authors. No e-mail, fax, or postal submissions will be accepted. Authors should prepare their papers according to ELMAR-2009 paper sample, convert them to PDF based on IEEE requirements, and submit them using web-based submission system by March 16, 2009.
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 11, 2009
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 21, 2009
Preliminary program available online by: June 11, 2009
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 18, 2009
Accommodation deadline: September 10, 2009
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
PROGRAM CHAIR
Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Juraj Bartolic, Croatia David Broughton, United Kingdom Paul Dan Cristea, Romania Kresimir Delac, Croatia Zarko Cucej, Slovenia Marek Domanski, Poland Kalman Fazekas, Hungary Janusz Filipiak, Poland Renato Filjar, Croatia Borko Furht, USA Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom Mislav Grgic, Croatia Sonja Grgic, Croatia Yo-Sung Ho, Korea Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Austria Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA Tomislav Kos, Croatia Murat Kunt, Switzerland Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom Rastislav Lukac, Canada Lidija Mandic, Croatia Gabor Matay, Hungary Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia Borivoj Modlic, Croatia Marta Mrak, United Kingdom Fernando Pereira, Portugal Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic Ramjee Prasad, Denmark Kamisetty R. Rao, USA Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom Mubarak Shah, USA Shiguang Shan, China Thomas Sikora, Germany Karolj Skala, Croatia Marian S. Stachowicz, USA Ryszard Stasinski, Poland Luis Torres, Spain Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic Stamatis Voliotis, Greece Nick Ward, United Kingdom Krzysztof Wajda, Poland Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia
CONTACT INFORMATION Assoc.Prof. Mislav Grgic, Ph.D. FER, Unska 3/XII HR-10000 Zagreb CROATIA Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851 Fax: + 385 1 6129 717 E-mail: elmar2009 (at) fer.hr For further information please visit: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

            APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference October 5 - 7, 2009
                       Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan
2009 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference is the inaugural event supported by the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). The APSIPA is a new association and it promotes all aspects of research and education on signal processing, information technology, and communications. The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition, classification, communications, networking, computing, system design, security, implementation, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, and social areas. The topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to:
Signal Processing Track
1.1 Audio, speech, and language processing
1.2 Image, video, and multimedia signal processing
1.3 Information forensics and security
1.4 Signal processing for communications
1.5 Signal processing theory and methods
Sapporo and Conference Venue: One of many nice cities in Japan, Sapporo is always recognized as a quite beautiful and well-organized city. With a population of 1,800,000, Hokkaido's largest/capital city, Sapporo, is fully serviced by a network of subway, streetcar, and bus lines connecting to its full
compliment of hotel accommodations. Sapporo has already played host to international meetings, sports events, and academic societies. There are a lot of flights from/to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka et al. and overseas cities. With all the amenities of a major city yet in balance with its natural surroundings, this beautiful northern capital, Sapporo, is well-equipped to offer a new generation of conventions.
Important Due Dates and Author's Schedule:
Proposals for Special Session: March 1, 2009
Proposals for Forum, Panel and Tutorial Sessions: March 20, 2009
Deadline for Submission of Full-Papers: March 31, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2009
Deadline for Submission of Camera Ready Papers: August 1, 2009
Conference dates: October 5 - 7, 2009
Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit either long papers, up to 10 pages in length, or short papers up to four pages in length, where long papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings will be published, available, and maintained at the APSIPA website.
Detail Information: WEB Site : http://www.gcoe.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/apsipa2009/
Organizing Committee:
Honorary Chair : Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
General co-Chairs : Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Hokkaido University, Japan K. J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland,USA
Technical Program co-Chairs : Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Takao Onoye, Osaka University, Japan               

Call for Papers 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing - MMSP'09   October 5-7, 2009 Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   We would like to invite you to submit your work to MMSP-09, the eleventh IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. We also would like to advise you of the upcoming paper submission deadline on April, 17th.  This year MMSP will introduce a new type of paper award: the “top 10%” paper award. While MMSP papers are already very well regarded and highly cited, there is a growing need among the scientific community for more immediate quality recognition. The objective of the top 10% award is to acknowledge outstanding quality papers, while at the same time keeping the wider participation and information exchange allowed by higher acceptance rates. MMSP will continue to accept as many as high quality papers as possible, with acceptance rates in line with other top events of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This new award will be granted to as many as 10% of the total paper submissions, and is open to all accepted papers, whether presented in oral or poster form.     The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.   Organized in Rio de Janeiro, MMSP-09 provides excellent conditions for brainstorming on, and sharing the latest advances in multimedia signal processing and technology in one of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the world.   Scope: Papers are solicited on the following topics (but not limited to)   Systems and applications - Teleconferencing, telepresence, tele-immersion, immersive environments - Virtual classrooms and distance learning - Multimodal collaboration, online multiplayer gaming, social networking - Telemedicine, human-human distance collaboration - Multimodal storage and retrieval   Multimedia for communication and collaboration - Ad hoc broadband sensor array processing - Microphone and camera array processing - Automatic sensor calibration, synchronization - De-noising, enhancement, source separation, - Source localization, spatialization   Scene analysis for immersive telecommunication and human collaboration - Audiovisual scene analysis - Object detection, identification, and tracking - Gesture, face, and human pose recognition - Presence detection and activity classification - Multimodal sensor fusion   Coding - Distributed/centralized source coding for sensor arrays - Scalable source coding for multiparty conferencing - Error/loss resilient coding for telecommunications - Channel coding, error protection and error concealment   Networking - Voice/video over IP and wireless - Quality monitoring and management - Security - Priority-based QoS control and scheduling - Ad-hoc and real time communications - Channel coding, packetization, synchronization, buffering   A thematic emphasis for MMSP-09 is on topics related to multimedia processing and interaction for immersive telecommunications and collaboration.  Papers on these topics are encouraged.   Schedule - Papers (full paper, 4 pages, to be received by): April 17, 2009 - Notification of acceptance by: June 13, 2009 - Camera-ready paper submission by: July 6, 2009   More information is available at http://www.mmsp09.org   ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/or one of the IEEE Technical Societies.   To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wellekens&LN=CONF and be certain to include your IEEE member number.  If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact k.n.luu@ieee.org

Call for Papers

2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and

Acoustics

Mohonk Mountain House

New Paltz, New York

October 18-21, 2009

http://www.waspaa2009.com

The 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and

Acoustics (WASPAA'09) will be held at the Mohonk Mountain House in New

Paltz, New York, and is sponsored by the Audio & Electroacoustics committee

of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The objective of this workshop is to

provide an informal environment for the discussion of problems in audio and

acoustics and the signal processing techniques leading to novel solutions.

Technical sessions will be scheduled throughout the day. Afternoons will be

left free for informal meetings among workshop participants.

Papers describing original research and new concepts are solicited for

technical sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Acoustic Scenes

- Scene Analysis: Source Localization, Source Separation, Room Acoustics

- Signal Enhancement: Echo Cancellation, Dereverberation, Noise Reduction,

Restoration

- Multichannel Signal Processing for Audio Acquisition and Reproduction

- Microphone Arrays

- Eigenbeamforming

- Virtual Acoustics via Loudspeakers

* Hearing and Perception

- Auditory Perception, Spatial Hearing, Quality Assessment

- Hearing Aids

* Audio Coding

- Waveform Coding and Parameter Coding

- Spatial Audio Coding

- Internet Audio

- Musical Signal Analysis: Segmentation, Classification, Transcription

- Digital Rights

- Mobile Devices

* Music

- Signal Analysis and Synthesis Tools

- Creation of Musical Sounds: Waveforms, Instrument Models, Singing

- MEMS Technologies for Signal Pick-up

Submission of four-page paper: April 15, 2009

Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2009

Early registration until:  September 1, 2009

Workshop Committee

General Co-Chair:

Jacob Benesty

Université du Québec

INRS-EMT

Montréal, Québec, Canada

benesty@emt.inrs.ca

General Co-Chair:

Tomas Gaensler

mh acoustics

Summit, NJ, USA

tfg@mhacoustics.com

Technical Program Chair:

Yiteng (Arden) Huang

WeVoice Inc.

Bridgewater, NJ, USA

arden_huang@ieee.org

Technical Program Chair:

Jingdong Chen

Bell Labs

Alcatel-Lucent

Murray Hill, NJ, USA

jingdong@research.bell-labs.com

Finance Chair:

Michael Brandstein

Information Systems

Technology Group

MIT Lincoln Lab

Lexington, MA, USA

msb@ll.mit.edu

Publications Chair:

Eric J. Diethorn

Multimedia Technologies

Avaya Labs Research

Basking Ridge, NJ, USA

ejd@avaya.com

Publicity Chair:

Sofiène Affes

Université du Québec

INRS-EMT

Montréal, Québec, Canada

affes@emt.inrs.ca

Local Arrangements Chair:

Heinz Teutsch

Multimedia Technologies

Avaya Labs Research

Basking Ridge, NJ, USA

teutsch@avaya.com

Far East Liaison:

Shoji Makino

NTT Communication Science

Laboratories, Japan

maki@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp

Call for Papers

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ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop

Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009)

***Submission Deadline Extended to Monday, June 15, 2009***

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http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/SSCS2009/

Multimedia content often contains spoken audio as a key component. Although speech is generally acknowledged as the quintessential carrier of semantic information, spoken audio remains underexploited by multimedia retrieval systems. In particular, the potential of speech technology to improve information access has not yet been successfully extended beyond multimedia content containing scripted speech, such as broadcast news. The SSCS 2009 workshop is dedicated to fostering search research based on speech technology as it expands into spoken content domains involving non-scripted, less-highly conventionalized, conversational speech characterized by wide variability of speaking styles and recording conditions. Such domains include podcasts, video diaries, lifelogs, meetings, call center recordings, social video networks, Web TV, conversational broadcast, lectures, discussions, debates, interviews and cultural heritage archives. This year we are setting a particular focus on the user and the use of speech techniques and technology in real-life multimedia access systems and have chosen the theme "Speech technology in the multimedia access framework."

The development of robust, scalable, affordable approaches for accessing multimedia collections with a spoken component requires the sustained collaboration of researchers in the areas of speech recognition, audio processing, multimedia analysis and information retrieval. Motivated by the aim of providing a forum where these disciplines can engage in productive interaction and exchange, Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS) workshops were held in conjunction with SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam and with SIGIR 2008 in Singapore. The SSCS workshop series continues with SSCS 2009 held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009 in Beijing. This year the workshop will focus on addressing the research challenges that were identified during SSCS 2008: Integration, Interface/Interaction, Scale/Scope, and Community.

We welcome contributions on a range of trans-disciplinary issues related to these research challenges, including:

***Integration***

-Information retrieval techniques based on speech analysis (e.g., applied to speech recognition lattices)

-Search effectiveness (e.g., evidence combination, query/document expansion)

-Self-improving systems (e.g., unsupervised adaptation, recursive metadata refinement)

-Exploitation of audio analysis (e.g., speaker emotional state, speaker characteristics, speaking style)

-Integration of higher-level semantics, including cross-modal concept detection

-Combination of indexing features from video, text and speech

***Interface/Interaction***

-Surrogates for representation or browsing of spoken content

-Intelligent playback: exploiting semantics in the media player

-Relevance intervals: determining the boundaries of query-related media segments

-Cross-media linking and link visualization deploying speech transcripts

***Scale/Scope***

-Large-scale speech indexing approaches (e.g., collection size, search speed)

-Dealing with collections containing multiple languages

-Affordable, light-weight solutions for small collections, i.e., for the long tail

***Community***

-Stakeholder participation in design and realization of real world applications

-Exploiting user contributions (e.g., tags, ratings, comments, corrections, usage information, community structure)

Contributions for oral presentations (8-10 pages) poster presentations (2 pages), demonstration descriptions (2 pages) and position papers for selection of panel members (2 pages) will be accepted. Further information including submission guidelines is available on the workshop website: http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/SSCS2009/

Important Dates:

Monday, June 15, 2009 (Extended Deadline) Submission Deadline

Saturday, July 10, 2009 Author Notification

Friday, July 17, 2009 Camera Ready Deadline

Friday, October 23, 2009 Workshop in Beijing

For more information: m.a.larson@tudelft.nl

SSCS 2009 Website: http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/SSCS2009/

ACM Multimedia 2009 Website: http://www.acmmm09.org

On behalf of the SSCS2009 Organizing Committee:

Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Joachim Kohler, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

Roeland Ordelman, Sound & Vision and University of Twente, The Netherlands

Wessel Kraaij, TNO and Radboud University, The Netherlands

CALL FOR ICMI-MLMI 2009 WORKSHOPS   NEW DATES!!

http://icmi2009.acm.org
Boston MA, USA

Paper submission May 22, 2009Author notification July 20, 2009 Camera-ready due August 20, 2009 Conference Nov 2-4, 2009 Workshops Nov 5-6, 2009 conference: 2-4 November 2009
 

The ICMI and MLMI conferences will jointly take place in the Boston
area during November 2-6, 2009. The main aim of ICMI-MLMI 2009 is to
further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal
interaction, methods and systems. The joint conference will focus on
major trends and challenges in this area, and work to identify a
roadmap for future research and commercial success.  The main
conference will be followed by a number of workshops, for which we
invite proposals.

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops is under the
control of the workshop organizers.  Workshops will take place on 5-6
November 2009, and may be of one or two days duration.
Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content,
specify the workshop format, be present to moderate the discussion and
panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the
workshop.

Proposals should specify clearly the workshop's title, motivation,
impact, expected outcomes,  potential invited speakers and the workshop
URL. The proposal should also name the main workshop organizer, and
co-organizers,  and should provide brief bios of the organizers.

Submit workshop proposals, as pdf, by email to
  workshops-icmi2009@acm.org

JPC3

Troisièmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique

Appel à Communication
**4-5 décembre 2009, Aix-en-Provence, France

_http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~jpc3/ <http://www.lpl-aix.fr/%7Ejpc3/>
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*
Ces journées s’inscrivent dans la lignée des premières et deuxièmes journées d’études de phonétique clinique, qui s’étaient tenues respectivement à Paris en 2005 et Grenoble en 2007. La phonétique clinique réunit des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, ingénieurs, médecins et orthophonistes, différents corps de métiers complémentaires qui poursuivent le même objectif : une meilleure connaissance des processus d’acquisition et de dysfonctionnement de la parole et de la voix. Cette approche interdisciplinaire vise à optimiser les connaissances fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée chez le sujet sain et à mieux comprendre, évaluer, diagnostiquer et remédier aux troubles de la parole et de la voix chez le sujet pathologique.

Les communications porteront sur les études phonétiques de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant. Les *thèmes* du colloque incluent, de façon non limitative :

   Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé    Perturbations du système perceptif    Troubles cognitifs et moteurs    Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique    Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologique    Evaluation et traitement des pathologies de la parole et de la voix
*Les contributions sélectionnées seront présentées sous l’une des deux formes suivantes :*

   Communication longue: 20 minutes, pour l’exposé de travaux aboutis    Communication courte: 8 minutes pour l’exposé d'observations
   cliniques, de travaux préliminaires, de problématiques émergentes
   afin de favoriser au mieux les échanges interdisciplinaires entre
   phonéticiens et cliniciens.
*Format de soumission:
*Les soumissions aux JPC se présentent sous la forme de résumés rédigés en français, d’une longueur maximale d’une page A4, police Times New Roman, 12pt, interligne simple. Les résumés devront être soumis au format PDF à l’adresse suivante: _soumission.jpc3@lpl-aix.fr


_*Date limite de soumission: 15 mai 2009
Date de notification auteurs : 1er juillet 2009

*Pour toute information complémentaire, contactez les organisateurs:
_org.jpc3@lpl-aix.fr

_/L’inscription aux JPC3 (1^er juillet 2009) sera ouverte à tous, publiant ou non publiant.