ISCApad
number 71
April 27th 2004
Dear ISCA members,
The regular date of issue is the first week of each month.
Do not forget to send the information you want to display for the members in time
to be included (last week of each month). I draw your attention on our secretary's
request
for your help in commenting our new web site (see ISCA News).
Chris Wellekens
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1- ISCA NEWS
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New membership services : online access to the Speech Communication
journal at a discounted rate.
The online subscription gives members access not only to the current year's
volumes but also to the Speech Communication archive dating back to 1995.
If you are interested in subscribing either to the paper version alone or
to the paper version+online access, please indicate this on the renewal form
: (http://www.isca speech.org/Apply_member.html) and will be
billed directly by Elsevier.
Individual, FULL member and STUDENT : paper version only: 85 EUR
Individual, FULL member and STUDENT : paper version + online access: 95 EUR
Institutional Member, paper version only : 600 EUR
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3rd CHRISTIAN BENOIT AWARD : deadline
April 30th, 2004
The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association
Christian Benoit (**). It is given to promising young scientists in the domain
of Speech
Communication. The Award provides financial support for the development of a
multi-media project promoting the work of these young scientists, and is valued
at 7,622 Euros. The first award was delivered to Tony Ezzat from MIT in June
2000, for his research in Audiovisual Speech Synthesis, and the second award
to Johanna Barry from University of Melbourne in September 2002 for her work
on the acquisition of lexical tones in profoundly hearing-impaired speakers
using a cochlear implant. The third award will be delivered this year to ANY
PROJECT IN THE FIELD OF AUDIO VISUAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION. Candidates should
be in the final stages of their doctoral research or within the five years following
their PhD. The Prix Benoît award will offer financial support to develop
a multi-media project which (a) demonstrates the candidate's research in a way
that helps launching that candidate's career, and (b) leverages electronic publishing
technologies intelligently so as to facilitate the widest possible dissemination
of this content.
In the application, the candidate should provide a statement of research interest,
a detailed curriculum vitae, and a description of the proposed multi-media project.
If the project already exists, a copy or link should be provided along with
the application.
Applications should be sent to Pascal Perrier (perrier@icp.inpg.fr
) and received by Friday April 30th, 2004. Electronic submissions
are mandatory.
The successful candidate will be notified by June 1st and invited to make a
brief presentation of his/her work at the ICSLP'2004 Conference in Jeju (Jeju
Island, Korea). Travel expenses for attendance at the Award ceremony will be
provided by the Christian Benoît Association.
For further information, please contact Pascal Perrier.
(**) The Christian Benoît Association is a nonprofit organization, whose
purpose is to facilitate the development of research projects in the field of
speech communication. Established in honor of Christian Benoît, French
CNRS researcher in the field of speech communication who died on the 26th of
April, 1998, at the age of 41, the Award places special emphasis on multimedia
representations of ongoing research
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CALL TO ALL MEMBERS:
ISCA is looking to improve its website
(www.isca-speech.org)
and would very much welcome feedback from its members. If you have a few minutes
to spend browsing through the current site, we'd be very grateful for any feedback
that you could provide on its style and content. Please send your comments by
email to the ISCA Secretary, Valerie Hazan, at the following address: val@phon.ucl.ac.uk
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ISCApad publishes now a list of accepted papers for publication
in Speech Communication. These papers can be also viewed on the website of
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com)
if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication.
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ISCA Grants are available for students attending
meetings.
Even if no information on the grants is advertised on
the conference announcement,students may apply.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org
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German-French
Summerschool on Cognitive and physical models of speech production, perception
and perception-production interaction
sponsored by the German French University (DFH) Saarbrucken. 19th-24th of September
2004 in Lubmin, Germany (Baltic Sea). Contact: sommer_org@zas.gwz-berlin.de
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2- COURSES, DATABASES, SOFTWARES
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Information on on-going theses could be very useful for thesis supervisors,
researchers as well as PhD students.
A list of speech theses is available at http://HLTheses.elsnet.org
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ISCA JOB OPENINGS
Latest opportunities :
- Speech Tech Positions
at Multitel (http://www.multitel.be),
Belgium (Junior
speech technologies engineer, Experienced speech technologies engineer)
- PhD positions at the
Computer Science Dpt of the University of Sheffield (UK) (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~martin/rs2004.pdf)
- Research oppotunities
in the AMI TRAINING PROGRAMME (www.amiproject.org)
; (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~linda/AMI/training.htm)
- New Job Opportunities
at ELRA/ELDA EVALUATION DEPARTMENT (Department director, Junior Engineers) www.elda.fr
or www.elra.info
- Postdoctoral
researcher(s) & Predoctoral researcher(s), The
Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Laboratory, Department
of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
(costas@zeus.csd.auth.gr)
All positions
are on the isca website: http://www.isca-speech.org/jobs
More positions on : http://www.elsnet.org
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4- JOURNAL AND BOOKS
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Call for Papers IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue
on Speech Technology and Systems in Human-Machine Communication
Over the past two decades, significant progresses are made in advancing speech
technologies in multimodal/multimedia and human-machine communication. As the
era of information age continues, the research in speech technologies is further
acclerated by the advance of powerful computing devices, the data driven pattern
recognition methods, and the need to generate machine understandable metadata
for web cotents and other information sources. Although various speech systems
are built and applied in numerous applications, the full potential of speech technologies
in multimodal/multimedia communication still remains to be uncovered. This special
issue is to fill the need of a comprehensive review of new approaches and advances
of speech technologies under the broad perspective of intelligent human-machine
communication. Speech technologies and systems touch upon many essential signal
processing techniques, and they are in the core of multimodal/multimedia communication
research. It is hoped that such a systematic and up-to-date overview of the field,
including tutorials to well established or new techniques, can bring the awareness
and applications of speech technologies closer to the general signal processing
community. Review papers are solicited from the following non-exhaustive list
of topics. The emphasis is on recent advances in current technologies and directions
in furture research. Other related work is also welcome.
Scope of Topics:
+ Novel speech recognition techniques and systems
+ Novel speech understanding techniques and approaches in language modeling
+ Dialogue system design and architecture
+ Spoken document retrieval systems and their underlying technologies
+ Speech technologies in multimodal interaction and multimedia communication
+ Novel signal processing techniques for robust speech recognition (e.g., distant
talker speech recognition)
+ Novel techniques for audio-visual and multi-sensor, multimodal speechrecognition
+ Facial animation synthesis and recognition
Submission Procedure:
Prospective authors should submit their white papers to the web submission system
at http://www.cspl.umd.edu/spm/,
according to the following timetable. The desired length of white papers is 5
to 10 pages.
White paper due: May 1, 2004 - Invitation notification: June 1, 2004 - Manuscript
due: September 1, 2004 - Acceptance Notification: December 1, 2004 - Final Manuscript
due: January 15, 2005 - Publication date: May, 2005
Guest Editors:
Li Deng,Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA, deng@microsoft.com
Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA, kuansanw@microsoft.com
Wu Chou, Avaya Labs Research, Rm. 2D34, 233 Mt. Airy Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920,
wuchou@avaya.com
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Elsevier, the publisher of the official ISCA journal Speech
Communication, has one series of print copies of all volumes of Speech Communication
available for a research institute that is active in speech research, but is not
in a position to acquire the full archive itself. Parties who are interested in
this offer are requested to state their interest to Hilde van der Togt (h.togt@elsevier.com),
who is as a Publishing Editor responsible for the journal in Elsevier. ISCA and
the Speech Communication Editors will collaborate with Elsevier to select the
deserving institute amongst applicants.
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IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing is preparing
a special issue on Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog.
Submission deadline: July 1st, 2004
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Papers accepted for future publication in Speech Communication.
Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com
for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications,
then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press.
The list of papers in press appear and a .pdf file for each paper is available.1.Kalle
J. Palomäki , Guy J. Brown and Jon Barker, Techniques for handling convolutional
distortion with 'missing data' automatic speech recognition, Speech Communication,
In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 March 2004.
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FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES
All
the forthcoming conferences organized by isca are presented on the isca website
: http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences
- Interspeech (ICSLP)-2004 , Jeju, KOREA, OCTOBER 5-9, 2004 (http://www.icslp2004.org/)
- Interspeech (Eurospeech)-2005, Lisbon, Portugal,September 4-8, 2005
(http://www.interspeech2005.org/)
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6-FUTURE
ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRWs)
All the forthcoming event organized or sponsored by isca are presented on the
isca website : http://www.isca-speech.org/workshops
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Supported by ISCA
- 2004: A Speaker Odyssey
Toledo - Spain, 31May/4June 2004
http://www.odyssey04.org/img/Odyssey04CFP030603.pdf
- 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg USA, June 14-16 2004
http://www.ssw5.org
- InSTIL/ICALL Symposium 2004
NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems
17-19 June 2004 Venice, Italy, Submission deadline: February 21st, 2004
http://sisley.cgm.unive.it/ICALL2004/index.htm
-Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing
October 2-3, 2004 Jeju, Korea, Extended deadline: April 21st, 2004
http://journal.speech.cs.cmu.edu/SAPA2004/
- NOLISP'05: Non linear speech processing,
April 19-22 April 2005, Barcelona, Spain
organized by Cost 277
Contact person: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (faundez@eupmt.es)
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Sponsored by ISCA
- The XXVth Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP)
Fes, Morocco, April 19-22 2004. (in conjunction with TALN 2004 (Traitement
automatique des langues naturelles)).
contact: Noel Nguyen (mailto:jep-taln@lpl.univ-aix.fr)
URL: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
- 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue <http://sigdial04.eml-research.de/>
April 30 - May 1, 2004, Boston, USA
- COST278 Workshop
on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction
30th and 31st August 2004, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Further details are available on www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/robust2004
- ICA 2004 International Congress on Acoustics
April 4-9, 2004 Kyoto Japan
Theme: Acoustic science for quality of life
http://www.ica2004.or.jp/
- HLT-NAACL Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and
Retrieval
Boston, May 6
http://www.hlt-naacl04.org/
- LREC2004
Lisbon (Portugal) 24-30 May 2004
http://www.lredc-conf.org
- 4th International SALTMIL (ISCA SIG) LREC workshop on First Steps for Language
Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for
Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation
24 May
2004, Lisbon, Portugal
- Affective Dialog Systems (ADS'04)
Kloster Irsee, Germany
June 14-16, 2004
http://www.sigmedia.org/ADS04
-International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
Evaluation campaignon spoken language translation
A satellite event of INterspeech-ICSLP 2004
September 30 - October 1, 2004, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/
-4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'04)
December 16-18, 2004, Hong Kong, China
http://www.iscslp2004.com/
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Future Speech Science and Technology events
- UK Speech Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts
One Day Meeting for Young Speech Researchers
Thursday 22nd April 2004, University College London
www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/sjc/one-day-meeting/
Organizers: Prof Stephen Cox and Dr M. Huckvale
- HLT/NAACL 2004
Human Language Technology Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, May
2-7, 2004, Boston, Mass USA
http://www.hlt-naacl04.org
- HLT/NAACL 2004 Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational
Systems
http://www.research.att.com/~dtur/NAACL04-Workshop/
The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 2004
- HLT/NAACL 2004 Student Research Workshop at The Human Language Technology
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, May 2-7, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://inismor.ucd.ie/~nstokes/hlt-naacl04-student
Submission deadline: February 8th, 2004 (extended), Notification: March 1, 2004,
Camera-ready papers: March 15, 2004
Tentative workshop date: May 2, 2004 (final date will be posted on web site)
- Voice World Europe
3rd annual conference and exhibition
5 - 6 May 2004
http://www.voice-world.com/
- HIGHER-LEVEL LINGUISTIC AND OTHER KNOWLEDGE FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING
(Workshop in conjunction with NAACL/HLT 2004)
The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
Thursday, May 6, 2004 (see ISCApad 68)
- ICASSP 2004, Montreal, CANADA, MAY 17-21, 2004
http://icassp2004.org
- Workshop: User Oriented Evaluation of Knowledge Discovery Systems
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal., 25th May, 2004, afternoon
in association with the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation: LREC 2004 - Main conference May 26th 28th, 2004
(see ISCApad 70)
- From sound to sense: Fifty+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication
12-13 June at MIT Cambridge , MA, USA
http://www.rle.mit.edu/soundto
sense/
- Incremental parsing: bringing engineering and cognition together
Workshop at ACL 2004
Barcelona Spain
25 july 2004 (see ISCApad 68)
- Inter-Noise 2004, 33rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control
Engineering,
Prague, Czech Republic, 2004, August 22 - 25.
http://www.internoise2004.cz
- EUSIPCO 2004. 12th European Signal Processing Conference.
September 7-10, 2004 Vienna, Austria
http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004/
Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University
of Technology
- Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2004) http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/
Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2004
DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 29,2004
- CLEF 2004 Workshop 16-17 september 2004 (see ISCApad 68)
Evaluation campaign.
- 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
(MMSP 04) http://mmsp.unisi.it
September 29-October 1 2004, Sienna Italy
- ACM Multimedia 2004
October 10-15, New York, NY USA
http://www.mm2004.org
-6th International Conference
on Multimodal Interfaces(ICMI'04)
October 13-15, 2004
The Atherton Hotel/State College, PA, USA
http://www.icmiplace.org
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