LINGUIST List 18.424
Wed Feb 07 2007
Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium; General Linguistics/Greece
Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz
<anialinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Helene
Mazo,
Interspeech 2007
2. Elissavet
Nouchoutidou,
4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
Message 1: Interspeech 2007
Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Helene Mazo <mazoelda.org>
Subject: Interspeech 2007
Full Title: Interspeech 2007
Date: 27-Aug-2007 - 31-Aug-2007 Location: Antwerp, Belgium Contact Person: Dirk Van Compernolle Meeting Email: infointerspeech2007.org Web Site: http://www.interspeech2007.org
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 23-Mar-2007
Meeting Description:
Interspeech 2007 is the eighth conference in the annual series of Interspeech events and also the tenth biennial Eurospeech conference. The conference is jointly organized by scientists from the Netherlands and Belgium, and will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007, under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
The Interspeech meetings are considered to be the top international conferences in spoken language processing, with more than 1000 attendees from universities, industry, and government agencies. The conference offers the prospect of meeting the future leaders of our field, exchanging ideas, and exploring opportunities for collaboration, employment, and sales through keynote talks, tutorials, technical sessions, exhibits, and poster sessions. In recent years the Interspeech meetings have taken place in a number of exciting venues including most recently Pittsburgh, Lisbon, Jeju Island (Korea), Geneva, Denver, Aalborg (Denmark), and Beijing.
Interspeech 2007 August 27--31, 2007 Antwerp, Belgium
Call for Papers (paper submission is now open)
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology and it solicits papers in the following areas and topics:
Human speech production, perception and communication Phonology and phonetics Discourse and dialogue Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure) Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression) Speech production Speech perception Physiology and pathology Spoken language acquisition, development and learning
Speech and Language technology Speech and audio processing Speech enhancement Speech coding and transmission Spoken language generation and synthesis Speech recognition Spoken language understanding Accent and language identification Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing Multimodal/multimedia signal processing Speaker characterization and recognition
Spoken language systems and applications Dialogue systems Systems for information retrieval Systems for translation Applications for aged and handicapped persons Applications for learning and education Other applications
Resources, standardization and evaluation Spoken language resources and annotation Evaluation and standardization
Paper Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers (including figures and references) via the conference website by March 23, 2007 midnight at the International Date Line West. Since the conference takes place early this year, the paper submission deadline will not be postponed by any significant amount of time.
The paper preparation guidelines can be found on the conference website. They stipulate that authors may submit multimedia files to illustrate their contribution. These multimedia files will have to be incorporated in one ZIP archive.
The conference will host several Special Sessions (see conference website). If authors want their paper to be considered for one of these Sessions, they can specify that during paper submission. Irrespective of this specification, all papers will follow the same electronic review procedure.
Authors will have to declare that their contribution is original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g., another conference, workshop, or journal).
Each corresponding author will be notified by e-mail of the acceptance or rejection of his paper by May 25, 2007. Minor updates of accepted papers will be allowed during May 25 - June 3, 2007.
More information is available on the conference website at http://www.interspeech2007.org
Important Dates:
Full paper submission deadline: March 23, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: May 25, 2007 Early registration deadline: June 22, 2007
Dirk Van Compernolle, Lou Boves - Conference Chairs Jean-Pierre Martens, Helmer Strik - Technical Program Chairs
Message 2: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
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Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Elissavet Nouchoutidou <enouchouphil.uoa.gr>
Subject: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
Full Title: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics Short Title: APC 4
Date: 01-Jun-2007 - 03-Jun-2007 Location: Athens, Greece Contact Person: Elissavet Nouchoutidou Meeting Email: enouchouphil.uoa.gr. - Length: up to 400 words. - The abstract should be anonymous. The author's name, academic affiliation and area of research should be included in the body of the e-mail. - In the body of the message, please indicate ''presentation'' or ''poster session''. - If you are using any special font, please attach it to the message. Only electronic submissions will be considered.
Presenters will be invited to submit their paper for publication in the Proceedings of the 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference.
The invited speakers will be announced in the second call for papers.
We look forward to receiving your abstract and to seeing you soon in Athens.
The Organizing Committee
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