IEEE SPEECH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER
October 31, 2003
INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to the sixth IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech Technical Committee (STC) newsletter.
As always we would like to invite contributions
of events, publications, workshops, and career information to the newsletter.
Topics for issue number seven ...
SPS NEWS:
New SPS Technical Committee (Fred Mintzner)
STC NEWS:
Election of New STC Members (S.
Parthasarathy and Rick Rose)
Revised Paper Review Process for
ICASSP 2004 in Montreal
SPECIAL ISSUES:
Speech Communications
Error Handling in Spoken Dialog Systems (Julia Hirschberg)
NEW WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SWIM: Special Workshop in Maui Lectures by Masters in Speech
Processing
2004 HLT/NAACL Human Language Technology Conference
Odessey 2004 ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
on Speaker and Language Recognition
Special Session on Language Understanding and
Communication in ITCC2004
Second International Conference of the Global WordNet
Association
SCI 2004: 8th World Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics,
and Informatics
LINKS TO WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES:
Links to
conferences and workshops organized by date (Rick Rose)
New IEEE Signal Processing Society
Technical Committee
Insofar as biomedical signal processing offers new and promising opportunities
for signal processing research, the Board of Governors supports in principle
the establishment of a new technical committee on biomedical signal processing.
Furthermore, the Board of Governors authorizes creation of an ad hoc committee,
chaired by the President-Elect, to develop a proposal for establishing a
biomedical signal processing technical committee
As recommended by the Technical Directions Committee, the Board of Governors
approves a change in the name of the Technical Committee now known as the
Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP) Technical Committee to the
Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee.
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Speech Technical Committee
New Member Elections
In October, six new members were elected to the Speech Technical Committee.
They will each serve three year terms on the committee. They will join
the existing members who can be found on the STC web page http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/stc/.
Perspective members are nominated by existing committee members in technology
areas with retiring members, and the STC elects new members from these nominees.
Each member serves a three year term. The new members are given
here along with short descriptions of their background:
- Michiel Bacchiani, AT&T Labs - Research
- Alan Black, Language Technologies Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University
- William Byrne, CSLP, Johns Hopkins University
- Tatsuya Kawahara, School of Informatics,
Kyoto Univ.
- Esther Levin - Computer Sciences at City
College of New
York
- Jean-Pierre Martens, Dept. of Electronics
and Information Systems, University of Gent
- Roberto Pieraccini, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center
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Michiel
Bacchiani's area of expertise is automatic
speech recognition. He received his PhD from Boston
University with his dissertation
work in pronunciation modeling for ASR. He
participated in the JHU ASR Workshop in the summer of 1996 and collaborated
with researchers at the Advanced Telecommunication Research laboratories in
Kyoto Japan
through multiple internships over the period from 1994 to 1998. In 1999, Dr. Bacchiani joined AT&T Labs Research and lead the design and development of the ASR component
of the Scanmail voicemail navigation system.
Dr. Bacchiani is
currently involved with developing algorithms for speech data mining. He
has served as co-organizer of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding (Prosody 2001).
[new members]
William Byrne's area
of expertise is automatic speech recognition. He is an Associate Research
Professor with dual appointments at CLSP and Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering at JHU. He is author/co-author of
60+ refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings. He has made many contributions to ASR and statistical
modeling for speech and language, specifically in acoustic adaptation, pronunciation
modeling, discriminative training, novel decoding procedures, and statistical
machine translation. He is the organizer/co-chair
of ASRU '03. He has also served as organizer/co-chair of PMLA '02
(satellite workshop of ICSLP), on the program committee of the NAACL Conference
on Human Language Technologies (2003), as an invited panelist to the NSF Symposium on Next Generation ASR (2003), and as
guest editor for a special issue of Speech Communication on Pronunciation
Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation.
[new
members]
Tatsuya Kawahara's
area of expertise is speech recognition and understanding. He is a Professor
with Kyoto University
and an Invited Researcher with ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Labs,
Japan. He was also a visiting researcher at AT&T Bell
Labs during 1995-1996. He received Ph.D degree in 1995 from Kyoto
University.
He has published more than 100 technical
papers covering speech recognition, confidence measures, and spoken dialogue
systems. He has served as publications/publicity
chair for the IEEE
& ISCA workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition 2003
and as editorial board member for the IEEE-TSAP
Special Issue on Spontaneous Speech Processing. He
is now managing several big speech recognition/understanding projects in Japan
including a free large vocabulary continuous speech recognition software
project (http://julius.sourceforge.jp/) and spontaneous speech recognition
project with Prof. Furui.
[new members]
Esther Levin's area
of expertise speech recognition and spoken dialog systems. She is a
professor of Computer Science at the City College of New York. She has had over 16 years of experience in the areas of speech and language
processing with Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, and Telelog. She has an extensive publication history in the areas
of speech recognition, machine learning, neural networks and spoken dialog
systems. She has served as member of several
technical committees and as co-chair of the ASRU’93 workshop.
[new members]
Roberto Pieraccini's area of expertise is speech
recognition and spoken dialog systems. He is with the IBM
T.J. Watson
Research Center
in Yorktown Heights, NY.
He has work for Bell Labs, AT&T Labs,
and most recently with SpeechWorks in New
York City. He has served
as co-chair of the ASRU’93 workshop, as a previous member of the STC, and
as member of several conference committees.
[new members]
Alan Black's
area of expertise is text-to-speech synthesis. He is an associate professor
with the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University. He is Chief Scientist and co-founder of Cepstral, LLC a 14 person for-profit speech synthesis
company in Pittsburgh and has
authored over 75 refereed publications ranging from natural language processing
to low level speech processing. He is active
in all areas of TTS from better language generation to new waveform synthesis
techniques, has published in text processing, prosody, lexicons, unit selection
synthesis, as well as uses of synthesis in spoken dialog systems and speech
to speech translation. He has served as a principal author and lead developer
of the open source Festival speech synthesis system and on the scientific
committee for the IEEE Speech Synthesis Workshop.
[new members]
Jean-Pierre Martens'
area of expertise is text-to-speech-syntheis. He is a member of the
Dept. of Electronics and Information Systems at the University
of Gent in Belgium. He has served on the program committee of the IEEE
Signal Processing Symposium (1998, 2000) and on the organizing committee
of IEEE ProRisc (1993-2000).
He has also served as chairman of steering committee of Spoken Dutch
Corpus project and as organizer/chairman/member of scientific committees for
numerous workshops/symposia.
[new members]
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Revised Paper Review
Process for ICASSP 2004 in Montreal
The paper review process for ICASSP 2004 in Montreal is about to begin.
The preliminary count of submitted papers in the speech area is 523
as compared to 526 papers submitted last year to ICASSP 2003. The review
procedure for this year's papers, however, will be significantly different
from previous years. In the December, 2002 edition of the STC newsletter
there was a brief discussion of the review process for ICASSP 2003.
In that process, two STC members or SAP Transaction Associate Editors were
assigned to review each submitted paper. The decisions made for each paper
and the comments returned to the authors were based on the collective reviews
of those two reviewers.
This year, a team of close to 150 volunteer reviewers has been assembled
to assist in the review process for ICASSP 2004 in Montreal. The major
aspect of the new process is the fact that their will be three reviews for
each paper, and authors will be provided with a separate set of comments from
each of three reviewers. The volunteer reviewers will be listed on
the ICASSP web page and in the printed proceedings as "reviewers" or part
of the "scientific committee of ICASSP".
The policy of having reviewing teams consisting of STC members and SAP Transactions
Associate Editors (AEs) will continue as in previous ICASSPs. Each STC member
will be paired with a colleague and assigned a set of papers in their area.
Based on last year's distribution, each pair
will receive approximately 27 papers. Each pair will also be given a target
acceptance rate. Each reviewing team will also be assigned a set of
reviewers from the larger group of volunteers for their area. The
pair will split the papers in half. Each STC member / AE will review
all
their papers and also obtain 2 additional reviews for their papers from
the set of volunteers. After obtaining two additional reviews per
paper, the pair will get together and merge the papers into a ranked list
of papers. Since an area may contain multiple pairs of reviewers,
the committee will meet and discuss the papers area by area, and resolve
any conflicts/questions.
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Call for Participation
Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM)
Lectures by Masters in Speech Processing
Maui, Hawaii, January 12-14, 2004
The Center for integrated acoustic information Research (CIAIR)
at Nagoya University in Japan and IEEE Signal Processing
Society is inviting you to participate in the Special Workshop in Maui
(SWIM): Lectures by Masters in Speech Proceesing to
take
place at Maui Prince Hotel and Resort during January 12-14, 2004. This historic workshop
is organized to bring together eight
pioneers who have collectively shaped the field of speech processing. In this
historic event, eight lectures will be given by:
- Bishnu S. Atal
- James L. Flanagan
- Hiroya Fujisaki
- Fumitada Itakura
- John Makhoul
- Lawrence R. Rabiner
- Ronald W. Schafer
- Manfred Schroeder
In addition, there will be 32 invited
and submitted poster presentations on four topics:
- Speech Coding Applications
- Spoken Language Applications
- Speech and Speaker Recognition Applications
- Multimedia Signal Processing Applications.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Hüseyin Abut, Chair, San Diego State University Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
Richard V. Cox,
AT&T Research
Yoh'ichi Tohkura, NTT Science & Core Research
John H.L. Hansen,
University of Colorado
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of technology, Japan
Chin-Hui Lee,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Shigeki Sagayama, University of Tokyo, Japan
B.H. “Fred” Juang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Web: http://dspincars.sdsu.edu/swim An IEEE Signal Processing
Society Cooperating Workshop
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HLT/NAACL
2004
Human Language Technology Conference of the
North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics
http://www.hlt-naacl04.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
May 2-7, 2004
Boston, Mass USA
www.hlt-naacl04.org
HLT/NAACL 2004 continues the combination of the Human
Language Technology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the
American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings
begun in 2003. This year's conference will include a special emphasis on
bringing together researchers with common interests in computational linguistics,
information retrieval, and speech research. Human language technology
incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling computers
to interact with humans using natural language, and providing improved services
such as automatic translation, speech recognition, information retrieval,
textsummarization, and information extraction.
HLT/NAACL 2004 will run from Sunday May 2 through Friday
May 7. The schedule will include full papers, late-breaking (short)
papers, posters and demonstrations. Invited speakers and panelists
will discuss the state of today's human language technology. The conference
will also host tutorials and workshops, including a workshop organized by
and devoted to graduate students.
The conference especially encourages submissions that discuss synergistic
combinations of language technologies (e.g., Speech with Information Retrieval,
Machine Translation with Speech, Question Answering with Natural Language
Processing, etc.). The conference will give special consideration
to papers that address the topic of learning from and exploiting knowledge
encoded in massive, unstructured collections like the Web.
The conference organization is overseen by a board representing the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(NAACL), ACM-SIGIR, the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA),
and HLT funding agencies in North America.
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Odyssey 2004
Call for papers
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
on Speaker and Language Recognition
May 31 - June 4, 2004
www.odyssey04.org
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We invite you to 2004:
A Speaker Odyssey, an ISCA Tutorial and Research
Workshop on speaker and language
recognition held at the scenic Hotel
Beatriz in Toledo, Spain.
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In cooperation with the ISCA Speaker and Language
Characterization SIG, the IEE, and technical cosponsorship by the IEEE
Signal Processing Society, this workshop is hosted by The Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid (UPM), School of Telecommunication Engineering (EUITT). The
need for fast, efficient, accurate, and robust means of recognizing people
and languages is of growing importance for commercial, forensic, and government
applications. The aim of this workshop is to continue to foster interactions
among researchers in speaker and language recognition as the successor
of the 1994 Automatic Speaker Recognition Workshop (Martigny), the 1998
RLA2C Workshop (Avignon), and
2001: A Speaker Odyssey (Crete).
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Feature
Tracks and Topics
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Feature tracks cover new techniques and forensic
speaker recognition. Topics of interest include speaker verification, identification,
segmentation and clustering; text-dependent and -independent speaker
recognition; multispeaker training and detection; speaker characterization
and adaptation; features for speaker recognition; robustness to channels,
classification, and fusion in speaker recognition; speaker recognition
corpora and evaluation; use of extended training data; speaker recognition
with speech recognition; forensics, multimodality, and multimedia speaker
recognition; language, dialect, and accent recognition; speaker synthesis
and transformation; biometrics; human recognition; and commercial applications.
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NIST
SRE ‘04 Workshop Evaluation Track
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The NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2004 Workshop
will be held during this week and after the Odyssey Workshop. Those wishing
to evaluate their systems are encouraged to do so via the NIST SRE. The
NIST Workshop is open to participants only. Please contact Dr. Alvin Martin
to participate and see the NIST website for details:
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Schedule
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Proposal due :: 15 January 2004
Notification of acceptance :: 27 February 2004
Final papers due :: 30 March 2004
Preliminary program :: 21 April 2004
Workshop :: 31 May – 4 June 2004
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Special Session on
Language Understanding and Communication
in the International Conference on Information Technology:
Coding and Computing
ITCC 2004
The Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
April 5-7, 2004
Sponsored by IEEE computer Society
www.itcc.info
Overview
The huge tide of economic globalization provides to the Natural Language
Processing and Understanding Technology with great opportunities as well
as severe challenges. Since the first word was uttered, people have searched
for ways to communicate their ideas, thoughts, and opinions to others.
Today, businesses are expanding their borders, becoming more global,
as they seek out new markets and customer bases. With the pace of information
transfer via fast PCs and networks, this goal becomes quite a challenge.
Language Understanding and Communication have become increasingly
important in recent years due to rapid advancements in the field of speech
recognition, natural language processing, Multi-lingual Multi-function
Multi-media intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering. This session
serves as an international forum for academic and industrial researchers
and practitioners to discuss the application of new computer technologies
to languages understanding and communication. The main objective of this
session is to bring together researchers to exchange ideas and experience
related to the fields. It will provide an international forum for an overview
of the most recent trends in the active research fields and a common starting-point
to tackle the most acute problems of information processing and information
technology.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Natural Language Understanding
Multi-lingual Multi-function Multi-media intelligent systems
Machine translation
Information retrieval
Spoken dialogue
Natural language interfaces
Information extraction
Text summarization
Adaptive interfaces
Terminology and ontologies
Lexical resources and corpora
Computer-assisted language learning
Speech modeling
Speech segmentation
Speech recognition
Text-to-speech synthesis
Document categorization
Natural language learning
WWW-based applications
E-commerce, education, entertainment
Knowledge representation
Text mining
Knowledge acquisition
Machine learning
Pattern recognition and automated scientific discovery
Soft computing and uncertainty management for data mining
Artificial intelligence
E-communication
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit papers describing in detail the original
contribution on the topics. Interested authors should send a draft paper,
formatted in the style ofIEEE Proceedings format, including keywords, and
a cover page listing the name, affiliation, complete address, telephone,
e-mail, and facsimile information for the corresponding author, before
October 30, 2003, to the Session chair. Electronic submission (PostScript
or PDF) is strongly encouraged.
The Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. A special
issue of an international journal of Information is being planned consisting
of selected papers from the special session.
DEADLINES and IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: October 30, 2003
Acceptance Notification: November 21, 2003
Camera-Ready Paper due (5 pages): December 19, 2003
Conference: April 5-7, 2004
Professor Fuji Ren
Dept. of Information Science and Intelligent Systems
Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima
2-1 Minamijosanjima, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-88-656-9684 Fax: +81-88-656-6575
Email: ren@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2nd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
January, 20 - 23, 2004
The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the Second International
Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWC'04). The conference
will be held at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), January, 20 -
23, 2004.
Details about the conference can be found on the conference website:
http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004/
Details about the Association can be found on the GWA website:
http://www.globalwordnet.org/
Topics:
A. Linguistics and WordNet:
a. In depth analysis of Semantic
Relations,
b. Theoretical definitions
of word meaning,
c. Necessity and Completeness
issues.
B. Architecture of WordNet:
a. Language independent and
language dependent components
C. Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development:
a. User and Data entry interface,
organization,
b. Extending and enriching
wordnets
D. WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT:
a. Word sense disambiguation
using wordnet,
b. Ontologies and WordNet,
c. The Lexicon and WordNet
E. Applications of WordNet:
a. Information Extraction and
Retrieval,
b. Document Structuring and
Categorization,
c. Automatic Hyperlinking
d. Language Teaching,
e. Psycholinguistic Applications
F. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and
wordnet tools.
Keynote speaker:
German Rigau (Basque Country University, Spain)
Wordnet and Project Meaning
Conference program:
The conference program will include oral presentations and two special
sessions - Poster session (for parallel poster presentations) and Demonstration
session, where authors are invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference.
The demonstrations presented will not appear in the printed version of the
Proceedings of GWC 2004. The authors of the demonstrations should provide
an abstract, which will be included in the CD version of the Proceedings.
The Proceedings will be published by Masaryk University in both paper
and CD format.
Important dates:
05-Nov-2003: Final Papers
05-Dec-2003: Deadline for Registration
20-23-Jan-2004: Conference
Conference Chairs:
Christiane Fellbaum and Piek
Vossen
Local Organizing Chair:
Karel Pala
Program Committee:
(e-mail: gwc2004pc@aurora.fi.muni.cz)
Pushpak Bhattacharya (IIT Mumbai, India)
Orhan Bilgin (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Bento Carlos Dias da Silva (UNESP, Soa Paolo, Brasil)
Dominique Dutoit (University of Caen and Memodata, France)
Ales Horak (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Chu-Ren Huang (Academica Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, England)
Karin Kipper (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Claudia Kunze (Tuebingen University, Germany)
Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Palmira Marrafa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Simonetta Montemagni (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Grace Ngai (Polytechnical University, Hong Kong)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
German Rigau (Basque Country University, Spain)
Pavel Smrz (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Sofia Stamou (University of Patras, Greece)
Felisa Verdejo (U.N.E.D. Madrid, Spain)
Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
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Speech Communications Call for Papers:
Special Issue on
Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Editors: Rolf Carlson, KTH
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Marc Swerts, University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
Spoken dialogue systems in real applications as well as research have
attracted increased attention in recent years. Given the limitations
of current speech technologies, both in recognition and understanding and
in generation, this interest in `real' systems has led to an increased awareness
of the problems raised by system errors. These errors may lead to increased
confusion for both users and the system in the rest of the dialogue.
The need to devise better strategies for detecting and dealing with problems
in human-machine dialogues has become critical for spoken dialogue systems.
After a workshop held in August 2003 on this topic (http://www.speech.kth.se/error/),
we are now soliciting journal papers not only from workshop participants
but also from other researchers for a special issue on "Error Handling in
Spoken Dialogue Systems."
Submissions are invited on the following broad topic areas:
What can we learn from errors in human-human and wizard-of-Oz systems
that will help us to handle error in human-machine dialogue systems?
How do systems detect when a dialogue is `going wrong'? How do
they define such conditions? What factors are the key contributors to and
indicators of `bad' dialogues?
How do systems identify their own errors? What are the most important
causes of such errors, from the user side (e.g. out-of-vocabulary words,
non-native accent or dialect, disfluencies, hyperarticulated speaking style,
gender, age, lack of experience with the system) and from the system side
(e.g. inappropriate prompts, poor confidence modeling, dialog modeling failures)?
How difficult is it to determine the causes of particular errors?
How can we predict which dialogues will be successful? How should
we define `success'? What features can best predict it? How can
we evaluate system success? How can we compare different error-handling
strategies?
What mechanisms can be devised to allow systems to recover from error
gracefully? Can we develop adaptive strategies to identify patterns
of error and respond accordingly?
What sorts of behavior do users exhibit when faced with system errors?
Can these be taken into account in error handling?
What measures (better prompts, anticipation of likely error, better help
information) can be taken to minimize potential errors?
Important Dates:
Submissions due: February 1, 2004
First Notification of Decisions: May 1, 2004
Submission requirements:
Papers should follow the submissions requirements for Speech
Communications submissions, as specified at
http://ees.elsevier.com/specom/.
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The 8th World Multi-Conference on
SYSTEMICS , CYBERNETICS And INFORMATICS
SCI 2004
http://www.iiisci.org/sci2004, http://www.iiis.org/sci2004/
July 18 - 21, 2004, Orlando, Florida(USA)
The Rosen Plaza Hotel
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Integrated by (320) prestigious scholars/researchers
from 54 countries:
MAJOR THEMES
* Information Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Control Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Optical Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
* Applications of Informatics and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering
* Systemics
PARTICIPANTS
Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly
encouraged. Papers may be submitted on: research in science and
engineering, case studies drawn on professional practice and consulting,
and position papers based on large and rich experience gained through
executive/managerial practices and decision-making. For this reason, the
Program Committee is conformed according to the criteria given above.
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent taking into account
the
following Format:
1. Major theme of the paper should be related to at least one of
the major
themes given above.
2. Paper title.
3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of
2000 to
5000 words, in English.
4. Author(s) and/or co-author(s) with names, addresses, telephone
and fax
numbers, and e-mail addresses.
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent via the conference web
site (http://www.iiisci.org/sci2004/), filling the respective form and
uploading the respective paper or extended abstract. If the conference
web
site is not accessible for you, you can also make your submission by
e-mail, attaching it to the following e-mail addresses:
sci2004@telcel.net.ve, sci2004@cantv.net and sci2004@iiis.org
DEADLINES
December 10th, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words)
or paper drafts (2000-5000 words).
December 10th, 2003: Invited Sessions proposals. Acceptation of invited
session proposals will be done in about one week of its registration via
the respective conference web form, and final approval will be done after
the registration of at least five papers in the respective session.
January 30th, 2004: Acceptance notifications.
March 31st, 2004: Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and
electronic versions.
Submitted papers will be sent to reviewers. Accepted papers, which should
not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of
paper and electronic proceedings. SCI Journal will publish, at least,
the best 10% of the papers presented at
the conference.
INVITED SESSIONS
Based on past conferences experience, we suggest the following steps in
order to organize an invited session:
1) Identify a special topic in the scope of SCI 2004, and the invited
session title.
2) Fill the invited session organization form, provided in the conference
web page http://www.iiisci.org/sci2004/, and fill the respective form.
If
by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please,
try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2004/. If you don't
have
access to the web, contact us via e-mail.
Invited sessions and symposia organizers with the best performance will
be
co-editors of the proceedings volume where their session or symposia paper
were included.
Best Invited sessions and symposia organizers are candidates for invited
editors or co-editors of the SCI Journal special issue related to their
field of research interest.
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Links to Upcoming
Conferences and Workshops
(Organized by Date)
2003 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing
to Audio and Acoustics
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York, October 19-22,
2003
http://musen.engin.umich.edu/waspaa03
ASRU2003 Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, November, 2003
http://www.asru2003.org
ITU Workshop on Standardization in Telecommunications for Motor Vehicles
Geneva, U.S. Switzerland, November 24-25, 2003
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/telecomauto/index.html
Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication
Santa Barbara, CA, December 11-12, 2003
http://mmua.cs.ucsb.edu
International Conference on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for
Biomedical Applications
Firenze, Italy, December 10-12, 2003
http://www.maveba.org
SWIM: Special Workshop in Maui Lectures by Masters in Speech Processing
Maui, Hawaii, January 12-14, 2004
http://dspincars.sdsu.edu/swim
2nd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association
Brno, Czech Republic, January 20 -23, 2004
http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004
International Conference on Speech Prosody
Nara, Japan, March 23-26, 2004
mail to:
http://hirose@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics
Kyoto, Japan, April 4-9, 2004
http://www.ica2004.or.jp
ITCC04 - International Conference on Information Technology Coding
and Computing
Las Vegas, Nevada, April 5-7, 2004
http://www.itcc.info
HLT/NAACL 2004
Boston, MA, May 2-7, 2004
http://www.hlt-naacl04.org/
ICASSP2004
Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004
http://www.icassp2004.com
Odyssey2004 - ISCA Workshop on Speaker and Language Recognition
Toledo, Spain, May 31 - June 1, 2004
http://www.odyssey04.org/
SCI2004 - 8th World Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics
Orlando, Florida, July 18 - 21, 2004
http://www.iisci.org/sci2004
EUSIPCO2004
Vienna, Austria, Sept. 7-10, 2004
http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004/
ICSLP2004 - INTERSPEECH 8th Biennial International Conference on Spoken
Language Processing
Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004
http://www.icslp2004.org
ICASSP2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May, 2005
http://www.icassp2005.org/
EUROSPEECH 2005 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology
Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005
http://www.interspeech2005.org/
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