Calls for Papers &
Participation
Summary
Call For Papers Due Date
IEEE Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies
(PIT 2008)
February 10, 2008
ISCA ITRW "Speech Analysis and
Processing for Knowledge Discovery
February 14, 2008
ICSC 2008: 2nd International
Conference on Semantic Computing
March 1, 2008
SIGDial 2008 Workshop on Discourse and Dialog
March 14, 2008
ACL-08: HLT March 14, 2008
MLMI 2008: Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and
Multimodal Interaction
March 31, 2008
INTERSPEECH 2008
April 7, 2008
ISCA ITRW on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA 2008)
April 21, 2008
IWAENC 2008: International Workshop on Acoustic
Echo and Noise Control
June 2, 2008
Call For
Participation
Date
ICASSP 2008
Mar 30 - Apr 4, 2008
Calls for Papers
PERCEPTION
AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPEECH-BASED SYSTEMS
(PIT08)
It is our pleasure to
invite you to participate in this 4th IEEE Tutorial
and Research Workshop on PERCEPTION AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
FOR SPEECH-BASED SYSTEMS (PIT08) , which will be held at the
Kloster Irsee
in southern Germany from June 16 to June 18, 2008.
The workshop focuses
on advanced speech-based human-computer interaction where
various contextual factors are modelled and taken into account when
users communicate with computers. This includes mechanisms,
architectures, design issues, applications, evaluation and tools.
Prototype and product demonstrations will be very welcome.
Future interfaces will
be endowed with more human-like capabilities. For example, the
emotional state of the user will be analysed so as to be able to
automatically adapt the dialogue flow to user preferences, state of
knowledge and learning success. Strategies in menu selection will be
guided by computational models of attention and the analysis of eye
movements tracked in various scenarios. Complex knowledge bases and
reasoning capabilities will control ambient devices that
automatically adapt to user requirements and communication styles
and, in doing so, help reducing the mental load of the user. Future
interfaces will finally behave like real partners or cognitive
technical assistants to their users.
The workshop will
bring together researchers from various disciplines such as, for
example, computer science and engineering sciences, medical,
psychological and neurosciences, as well as mathematics. It will
provide a forum for the presentation of research and applications
and for lively discussions among researchers as well as
industrialists in different fields.
We welcome you to the
workshop.
Please follow this link to
visit our workshop website
http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/World/Research.DS/irsee-workshops/pit08/introduction.html
Submissions will be
short/demo or full papers of 4-10 pages.
Important dates:
February 10, 2008: Deadline
for Long, Short and Demo Papers
The workshop will be
technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It is envisioned
to publish the proceedings in the LNCS/LNAI Series by Springer.
We welcome you to the
workshop.
PIT'08 Organising Committee
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June 4-6, 2008 at Aalborg University,
Aalborg, Denmark
The objective of the workshop is:
- to discuss innovative approaches to the analysis of
speech signals, so that it can bring out the subtle and unique characteristics
of speech and speaker. This will help in discovering speech cues useful for
improving the performance of speech systems significantly.
Several attempts have been made in the past to explore
speech analysis methods that can bridge the gap between human and machine
processing of speech. In particular, the time varying aspects of interactions
between excitation and vocal tract systems during production seem to elude
exploitation.
Some of the explored methods include all-pole and
pole-zero modelling methods based on temporal weighting of the prediction
errors, interpreting the zeros of speech spectra, analysis of phase in the time
and transform domains, nonlinear (neural network) models for information
extraction and integration, etc. Such studies may also bring out some finer
details of speech signals, which may have implications in determining the
acoustic-phonetic cues needed for developing robust speech systems.
The workshop will be opened with two tutorials
presentations.
The speakers and their subjects are:
Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
The paper submission deadline is extended until
February 14, 2008
Please find much more details of the workshop at :
http://www.es.aau.dk/itrw
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IEEE ICSC2008
Second
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
August 4th-7th, 2008 Santa Clara, CA, USA
http://icsc.eecs.uci.edu/
The field of Semantic Computing (SC) brings together those disciplines concerned
with connecting the
(often
vaguely-formulated)
intentions of humans with computational content. This connection
can go both ways:
retrieving, using and manipulating existing
content according to user's goals ("do what the user means"); and
creating, rearranging, and managing content that matches the author's
intentions ("do what the author means")
The content addressed
in
SC
includes, but is not limited to,
structured and semi-structured data, multimedia data, text,
programs, services and, even, network behaviour.
This connection between content and the user is made
via
(1) Semantic Analysis,
which
analyzes content with the goal of converting it to meaning
(semantics); (2)Semantic Integration, which integrates content
and semantics from multiple sources; (3)Semantic Applications,
which utilize content and semantics to solve problems; and (4)Semantic
Interfaces, which attempt to interpret users' intentions
expressed in natural language or other communicative forms.
Example areas of SC include (but, again, are not limited to) the
following:
ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT
Natural-language processing
Image and video analysis
Audio and speech analysis
Analysis of structured and
semi-structured data
Analysis of behavior of software,
services, and networks
INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE SEMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS
Database schema integration
Ontology integration
Interoperability and Service
Integration
SEMANTIC INTERFACES
Natural-Language Interface
Multimodal Interfaces
APPLICATIONS
Semantic Web and other search
technologies
Question answering
Semantic Web services
Multimedia databases
Engineering of software,
services, and networks based on
natural-language specifications
Context-aware networks of
sensors, devices, and/or applications
The second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
(ICSC2008) builds on the success of ICSC2007 as an international
interdisciplinary forum
for researchers and practitioners to
present
research that advances the state of the art and practice
of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics
and defining the future of Semantic Computing. The
conference particularly welcomes interdisciplinary research
that
facilitates the ultimate success of Semantic Computing.
The
event
is located
in
Santa Clara , California, the heart of
Silicon Valley.
The technical program of ICSC2008 includes tutorials,
workshops, invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, demo sessions,
and an industry track.
Submissions
of
high-quality
papers describing mature results or on-going work
are invited.
In addition to Technical Papers, the conference will feature *
Tutorials
* Workshops
* Demo Sessions * Special Sessions
* Panels * Industry Track
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript
in double-column IEEE format following the guidelines available on the
ICSC2008 web page under
"submissions".
The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be
selected for publications in internationally renowned
journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper Submission
March 1, 2008
Notification
April
24, 2008
Camera-Ready Papers
May 16, 2008
Conference
August 4-7, 2008
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COLUMBUS, OHIO;
June 19-20 2008 (with ACL/HLT 2008)
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop9
==> NOTE: EXTENDED SUBMISSION
DEADLINE! <==
** Submission
Deadline: Mar 14 2008 **
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Continuing with a series of
successful workshops in Antwerp, Sydney, Lisbon, Boston, Sapporo, Philadelphia,
Aalborg, and Hong Kong, this workshop spans the ACL and ISCA SIGdial interest
area of discourse and dialogue. This series provides a regular forum for the
presentation of research in this area to both the larger SIGdial community as
well as researchers outside this community. The workshop is organized by SIGdial,
which is sponsored jointly by ACL and ISCA. SIGdial 2008 will be a workshop of
ACL/HLT 2008.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal,
corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialogue
including but not restricted to the following three themes:
1. Discourse Processing and
Dialogue Systems
2. Corpora, Tools and
Methodology
3. Pragmatic and/or
Semantic Modeling
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee
welcomes the submission of long papers for full plenary presentation as well as
short papers and demonstrations. Short papers and demo descriptions will be
featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations.
Please use the official ACL
style files:
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~djh/acl08/stylefiles.html
Submission/Reviewing will be
managed by the EasyChair system. Link to follow.
Papers that have been or
will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information (see submission format). SIGdial 2008 cannot accept for publication
or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any
questions regarding submissions can be sent to the co-Chairs.
Authors are encouraged to
make illustrative materials available, on the web or otherwise. For example,
excerpts of recorded conversations, recordings of human-computer dialogues,
interfaces to working systems, etc.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Mar 14
2008
WEBSITES
Workshop website:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop9
http://www.sigdial.org CO-LOCATION ACL/HLT 2008 website:
http://www.acl2008.org
CONTACT
For any questions, please
contact the co-Chairs at:
bahockey@ucsc.edu
das@ling.uni-potsdam.de
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8-10 September
2008 Utrecht, The
Netherlands The fifth MLMI workshop
will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful
workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006)
and Brno (2007). MLMI brings together researchers from the
different communities working on the common theme of advanced
machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and
human-computer interaction. The motivation for creating this joint
multi-disciplinary workshop arose from the actual needs of several
large collaborative projects, in Europe and the United States.
* Important dates
Submission of
papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008
* Workshop topics
MLMI 2008 will feature
talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and
demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals
in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning and
multimodal interaction:
- human-human
communication modeling
* Satellite events
MLMI'08 will feature
special sessions and satellite events, as during the previous
editions of MLMI (see
www.mlmi.info for examples). To propose special sessions or
satellite events, please contact the special session chair.
MLMI 2008 is broadly
colocated with a number of events in related domains: Mobile HCI
2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in
Amsterdam; and ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp.
* Guidelines for
submission
The workshop proceedings
will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series (pending approval). The first four editions of MLMI were
published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike
previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before
the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008
participants.
Submissions are invited
either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and
may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper,
the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format,
oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format
given the content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long
papers are more likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences
expressed by the authors.
Please submit PDF files
using the submission website at
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/ , following the Springer LNCS
format for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 ).
Camera-ready versions
of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow
these guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments.
Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into
long papers for the proceedings.
* Venue
Utrecht is the fourth
largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots back to the
Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in the
country, and with its historic centre and the many students it
provides and excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or
outside the workshop community. Utrecht is centrally located in the
Netherlands, and has direct train connections to the major cities
and Schiphol International Airport.
TNO, organizer of MLMI
2008, is a not-for-profit research organization.
TNO speech
technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human
Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language
recognition, and word and event spotting.
The workshop will be held
in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the "Singel", the canal
which encircles the city center. The conference hall combines a
spacious setting with a warm an friendly ambiance.
* Organizing Committee
David van Leeuwen, TNO
(Organization Chair) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special
Sessions Chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme
Co-chair) Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme
Co-chair)
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Statistical And Perceptual
Audition
http://www.sapa2008.org/
Papers are solicited for the 2008
Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA2008), to
be held in Brisbane, Australia as a satellite to
Interspeech 2008 .
Following on from the successes
of SAPA2004 (in Jeju,
Korea), and SAPA2006 (in
Pittsburgh, USA), the objective of the SAPA2008 workshop is to
bring together researchers considering perceptually-motivated
problems in sound and speech analysis and understanding,
employing statistical and machine learning tools.
There is a wide area of overlap
between more heuristic models of human auditory function and
purely pattern recognition approaches that are independent of
human audition; SAPA aims to be the forum for presentation and
discussion of this promising and expanding field.
This will be a one-day workshop
with a limited number of oral presentations, chosen for breadth
and provocation, and an informal atmosphere to promote
discussion. We hope that the participants in the workshop will
be exposed to a broader perspective, and that this will help
foster new research and interesting variants on current
approaches.
Papers describing relevant
research and new concepts are solicited on, but not limited to,
the following topics:
Generalized audio analysis
Speech analysis
Music analysis
Audio classificationy
Scene analysis
Signal separation
Speech recognition
Multi-channel analysis
In all cases, preference will be
given to papers that clearly involve both perceptually-defined
or perceptually-related problems, and statistical or
machine-learning based solutions.
Manuscripts must be between 4 and
6 pages long, in standard Interspeech double-column format.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Papers must be recieved by 21
April 2008 (two weeks after the Interspeech deadline). The
results of the paper review will be posted by 16 June 2008 (same
as Interspeech).
Organizers
Dr.
Bhiksha Raj
Research Scientist
Prof.
Daniel Ellis
Associate Professor
Dr. Paris
Smaragdis
Research Scientist
Prof. Patrick J. Wolfe
Assistant Professor
Dr. Shoji Makino
NTT Communication
Science Laboratories
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The 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo
and Noise Control will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, September 14-17,
2008. The focus of the workshop is signal processing for acoustic echo and noise
control. Applications include telephony, conferencing systems and voice control
systems. The three day program includes poster presentations of recent work and
latest results, keynote talks, and demonstrations.
Adaptive filtering algorithms and structures
for echo and noise control Noise reduction techniques Active noise control, sound reproduction and
hearing aids Transducers and acoustic front-ends
Hardware and real-time issues Speech-databases and software tools
Systems for stereophonic echo and noise
control Microphone arrays and array signal
processing Sound enhancement and sound separation
Temporal segmentation of signals
Voice activity detection and double-talk
detection Noise and acoustic environments and
characteristics
DEMONSTRATIONS
SCHEDULE
THE EBERHARD HAENSLER BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
CONTACT INFORMATIONwww.iwaenc2008.org
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Columbus, Ohio -- June
16-18
Call for Papers
Unless otherwise
stated, all submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on the
specified day.
Deadline for
full paper submission - Thursday January 10,
2008 (PASSED)
Deadline for
short paper submission - Friday March 14, 2008
ACL-08: HLT
combines the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language
Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of
the ACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of
disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to
interact with humans using natural language, and towards
enhancing human-human communication through services such as
speech recognition, automatic translation, information
retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction.
ACL-08: HLT will feature full papers, short papers, posters,
demonstrations, and a student research workshop, as well as
pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops. The
conference is organized by the Association for Computational
Linguistics, in cooperation with The North American Chapter
of the ACL.
The conference
invites the submission of papers on substantial, original,
and unpublished research in disciplines that could impact
human language processing systems.
Important
Dates:
Jan 10, 2008
Full paper submissions due
Feb 28, 2008
Full paper notification of acceptance
Mar 14, 2008
Short paper submissions due
Apr 14, 2008
Short Paper notification of acceptance
Apr 21, 2008
Camera-ready full/short papers due
Jun 15-20,
2008 ACL 08: HLT Conference
Topics of
Interest: Topics include,
but are not limited to:
* Intelligent
systems for natural language interaction, including
intervention
o Dialogue
systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral
o Embodied
conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot
conversation
o
Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative
and digital entertainment
* Information
retrieval
o
Speech/MT-oriented information retrieval
o
NLP-oriented information retrieval
o General
information retrieval
* Information
retrieval/NLP applications
o Text Data
Mining, Information Extraction, Filtering,
Recommendation
o Question
Answering
o Topic/text
classification and clustering
o
Sentiment/attribution/genre analysis
* Language
Generation
*
Summarization
* Machine
Translation and Multilingual processing, including
o
Cross-language information retrieval
o Machine
translation of speech and text
o
Multi-lingual speech recognition and language
identification
* Multimodal
representations and processing, including speech and
gesture
* Speech processing
o Speech
recognition
o Speech
generation and synthesis
o Rich
transcription (automatic annotation of information
structure and sources in speech)
*
Phonology/Morphology, POS tagging, word segmentation
* Syntax and Parsing
o Grammar
induction/development
o
Corpus-based parsers and evaluation
o
Mathematical Linguistics, Formal Grammar, and algorithms
* Semantics
o lexical
semantics
o formal
semantics & logic
o textual
entailment & paraphrasing
o word sense
disambiguation
* Discourse and
Pragmatics
* Statistical and
machine learning techniques for language processing,
including
o
Corpus-based language modeling
o Lexical
and knowledge acquisition
o Formalisms
and Metrics
* Development of
language resources, including
o Lexicons
and ontologies
o Treebanks,
proposition banks, and frame banks
* Evaluation
o Glass-box
evaluation of systems and system components
o Black-box
evaluation of systems in application settings
o User
studies
Full papers: Submissions must
describe original, completed, unpublished work. Each
submission will be judged chiefly on the strength of the
argument it provides in support of its contribution, through
e.g., experimental evaluation, theoretical analysis, or
critical engagement with HLT. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three program committee members.
https://www.softconf.com/acl08/papers .
Short papers: In keeping with
the HLT tradition, ACL 08: HLT solicits short papers as well
as long papers. The short paper deadline is just three
months before the conference to allow authors to bring fresh
research and new ideas to the conference. Papers qualifying
as short papers can be of one of three types:
https://www.softconf.com/acl08/papers .
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Calls for
Participation
Las Vegas, Nevada - March 30 - April 4, 2008
Call for
Participation The 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP) will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, March
30 - April 4, 2008. The ICASSP meeting is the world?8364;™s largest and
most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing
and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers,
tutorials, exhibits, and over 50 lecture and poster sessions on the
following topics:
Audio and
electroacoustics Bio imaging and
signal processing Design and
implementation of signal processing systems Image and
multidimensional signal processing Industry
technology tracks Information
forensics and security Machine learning
for signal processing Multimedia
signal processing Sensor array and
multichannel systems Signal
processing education Signal
processing for communications Signal
processing theory and methods Speech
processing Spoken language
processing
Welcome to the ultimate location for ICASSP 2008 - Las Vegas! Las
Vegas continues to build upon its reputation as a vibrant showcase for
the extraordinary. This is the city that attracts more than 38 million
visitors a year by offering the grandest hotels, the biggest stars in
entertainment, the highest caliber of award-winning chefs and master
sommeliers, and, of course, the brightest lights. ICASSP 2008 is to be
held in one of the grandest and most recognizable hotels on the Las
Vegas Strip - Caesars Palace - one of the most opulent hotels in the
heart of the desert, echoing the glory of ancient Greece and Rome.
Submission of Papers : Prospective authors are
invited to submit full-length, four-page papers, including figures and
references, to the ICASSP Technical Committee. All ICASSP papers will
be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that all submission
deadlines are strict.
Tutorial and Special Session Proposals : Tutorials
will be held on March 30 and 31, 2008. Brief proposals should be
submitted by November 9, 2007, through the ICASSP 2008 website and must
include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a
description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to
participants. Special sessions proposals should be submitted by August 17,
2007, through the ICASSP 2008 website and must include a topical title,
rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited
papers. Tutorial and special session authors are referred to the ICASSP
website for additional information regarding submissions.
Important Deadlines
Special
Sessions Proposals Due
August
17, 2007
Notification
of Special Session Acceptance
September
17, 2007
Submission
of Camera-Ready Papers
October
5, 2007
Submission
of Tutorial Proposals
November
9, 2007
Notification
of Tutorial Acceptance
December
3, 2007
Notification
of Paper Acceptance
December
14, 2007
Author
Registration Deadline
January
18, 2008
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