Speech and Language Processing
Technical Committee
Sub-committees
Awards and Membership Honors
(Chair: Yanmin Qian, Vice Chair: Visar Berisha, Members: Lei Wang, Zhenhua Ling, Zhizheng Wu)
Manage the SPS awards nomination process for the TC. Conduct awards election and identify final nominations. The list of awards is available on the SPS website.
Challenges
(Chair: Jesus Villalba, Vice Chair: Nobutaka Ito, Members: Daniele Giacobello, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Soumi Maiti)
Assist the Signal Processing Society in evaluating proposals for challenge competitions demonstrating advances in signal processing technology. Fosters development of new challenges in the speech and language processing domain.
Communications
(Chair: Paola Garcia, Vice Chair: Leda Sari, Members: Qiong Hu, Yangyang Shi)
Expand the circulation and maintain the TC newsletter in the areas outlined in our EDICS. Ensure that the newsletter is easily accessible and enables the larger community to participate in writing articles and providing views and suggestions in the form of blogs or other similar means. Manage and maintain the SLTC website and SLTC-SPS mailing list.
Conference Support
(Chair: Murat Saraclar, Vice Chair: Atsunori Ogawa, Members: Sriram Ganapathy, Yongqiang Wang, Georg Heigold)
Helps maintain the reviewer pool to provide for a robust review process at ICASSP and TC-affiliated workshops. Maintains the EDICS, in concert with relevant SPS journals.
External Relations
(Chair: Hung-yi Lee, Vice Chair: Zheng-Hua Tan, Members: Bo Li, Emanuël Habets, William Hartmann)
Collaborate with other international societies such as ISCA, ACL, and ACM, other IEEE societies such as Computer Society and Computational Intelligence Society, and other TCs such as AASP, MMSP, and MLSP in IEEE SPS that have shared interests to establish joint activities and initiatives (e.g., education and standard) and to co-sponsor events (e.g., workshops).
ICASSP Area Chairs
(Chair: Shinji Watanabe, Vice Chair: Jinyu Li, Members: Sakriani Sakti, Karen Livescu, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Jen-Tzung Chien, Xie Chen, Koichro Yoshino, Wei-Ning Hsu, Carlos Busso, Alicia Lozano-Diez, Sayaka Shiota, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Takashi Fukuda, Yu Tsao, Berrak Sisman, Erica Cooper)
Manage the ICASSP review process including assignment of reviewers to papers, coordinating meta-reviews by SLTC members, making final decisions, allocating papers to sessions, and inviting session chairs.
Member Election
(Chair: Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Vice Chair: Jesper Rindom Jensen, Members: Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Jan Skoglund, Chao Zhang, Chenghua Lin)
Manage the TC member election process. Solicit candidates in the areas identified in the TC EDICS, conduct the election, and identify finalists.
Student & Conference Paper Awards
(Chair: Naoyuki Kanda, Vice Chair: Tatiana Likhomanenko, Members: Samuel Thomas, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yu Zhang, Jiangyan Yi)
Manage the ICASSP student awards process for the speech and language area. Identify finalists.
Workshops
(Chair: Chi-Chun Lee, Vice Chair: Shi-Xiong Zhang, Members: Sibel Oyman, Matthew Wiesner)
Promote having IEEE-sponsored workshops in the areas outlined in the TC EDICS. Conduct an election should multiple proposals be submitted for any given event. Provide new workshop organizers with the help necessary to get them started in organizing their event.
