IEEE
SPEECH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER
June 9, 2005
INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech Technical Committee (STC)
newsletter. As always, contributions
of events, publications, workshops, and career information to the
newsletter are welcome. Please send to Rick Rose
(rose@ece.mcgill.ca). Archives of recent STC Newsletters
can be found on the STC
website.
STC NEWS:
Minutes of the STC ICASSP2005 Meeting
(S. Parthasarathy)
Election
of At-Large Members to the SPS Board of Govenors
(Alex Acero)
NEW INSTITUTE:
Saras Intitute - History of
Speech and Language Technology (Patri Pugliese and Janet Baker)
SPECIAL ISSUES OF TRANSACTIONS:
Call
for Papers for a Special
Issue of the IEEE Transactions on SAP: Objective Quality Assessment of
Speech and Audio
Call for Papers for a Special
Issue of the IEEE Transactions on SAP: Blind Signal Processing for
Speech and Audio Applications
NEW
WORKSHOP / EVALUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2006
Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop
IWSLT2005 - International Workshop
on Spoken Language Translation
Call
for Papers Reminder -
ASRU2005 - 2005 Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Call
for Demonstrations - ASRU2005
CAREERS:
Postdoctoral Fellowship Position at McGill
University
Sidney Burrus Retires from Rice
University
LINKS TO WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES:
Links to conferences and
workshops organized by date (Rick Rose)
Minutes of the Speech Technical
Committee Meeting
Held at ICASS2005,
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Note: Meetings of the IEEE SPS Speech
Technical Committee take
place twice
each year. There is a fall meeting whose main order of business
is
to organize sessions in the speech area for the upcoming ICASSP
conference
and a spring meeting which is usually held at the ICASSP conference and
covers
a wider set of topics. The attendees of both meetings
include
both the STC members and the associate editors of the Speech and Audio
Transactions.
This meeting took place at the ICASSP2005 conference in
Philadelphia and was presided over by the STC Chairman,
Mazin Rahim. The following is an editted version of the
minutes from
this meeting recorded by S. Parthasarathy.
Chair's Introduction -
Mazin Rahim:
- Thanks to retiring STC members and welcome to new members
- All STC members belong to a sub-committee and they have been very
effective. The Awards committee has done an excellent job and
their active role has resulted in a number of speech awards.
- The
review process worked very well with the help of area chairs, the other
STC members, and external reviewers.
- The special sessions in the Speech area at ICASSP2005 were a
great success.
Report by the Chief Editor of the
Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing - Isabel Trancoso
- Great to hear about the awards for speech. We should be getting
awards for more recent papers.
- We have new EDICS
Categories
- Special issues have been very successful. Should shoot for more
relevant topics and broader scope.
- Much progress has been made in reducing
the time taken for paper reviews but the publication delay is too
long. There is a big problem with page budgets. SPS is unwilling
to increase the budgets citing related costs (editing time, etc.).
- The SPS is not willing to allow immediate online access to the
SAP Journal. The stated reasons are increased costs of hardware,
management, etc. NOTE: Online
pre-publication of the SAP Journal has since been approved by the IEEE.
Report on STC Policies and
Procedures - ChirstopherWellekens
- Propose to rewrite by-laws to clarify election policy and the
terms of
newsletter editor and secretary
- Soliciting ideas for broadening the mission of STC beyond ICASSP
reviews
Report on STC Newsletter - Rick
Rose
- Distribution list is an issue. Some people that should be
getting
it are not. Many sites (including Rick's colleagues at McGill) treat
any email with an html attachment as SPAM!
- Not getting many voluntary contributions. People need to be
pestered to submit announcements, etc.
- Ideas for new items for inclusion in the newsletter are
welcome.
- We should be thinking about a successor- Rick's term ends
this year.
Report by the Awards
Subciommittee - Ananth Sankar
- We did very well with awards for speech this year. We need
more
nominations this year to continue to get the recognition we received
this year.
- Discussion: there was some discussion about whether there
should
be a award reserved for TSAP. There is going to be one more
journal on Security in SPS. Speech is 25% of ICASSP but with so
many journals, Isabel is pushing for an award per journal.
Report on the SPS Conference
Board Meeting - Helen
Meng
- Helen reported that there is only one item for the board
meeting, the ASRU2005 workshop.
- Michael Picheny suggests that Helen should bring up the
issue that the TC chairs
should receive feedback on the ICASSP sessions schedule. That was
not the case this year and there were some sessions in parallel
that should not have been.
Report on the ASRU2005 Workshop -
Rick Rose and Jim Glass
- Contract has been signed with the Fiesta Americana Hotel, the
workshop venue.
- The workshop web site is online
- Workshop and hotel registration is open.
- Some Open Issues:
1. Wireless Internet access: Should we
have wireless access in the hotel lobby, terrace, etc. and how
much should it cost. The hotel wants to charge $30 a day.
2. Registration Limit: How in practice do we limit attendees to under
about
200 (220) without denying requests from registrants with accepted
papers?
3. Session Organization: Thinking of having somewhat structured oral
presentations with some guidance given to the authors; contributed
papers will be posters.
Proposal for Focussed Workshops -
Mazin
Rahim
- We should have more focussed workshops on topics related to
ASR so
that we can broaden the "speech" community that attends ICASSP.
- One proposal: Workshop on Spoken Language Communication
covering
areas of speech, NLP, and applications
- Roger liked the idea but had some reservations about the
wording
of the goals on Mazin's viewgraph
IEEE TTS and Coding Workshops -
Michael
Picheny
- There does not seem to be any IEEE sponsored workshops on
TTS and
coding. We should organize those either alone or in cooperation
with other societies.
- Isabel Trancoso: Focussed workshops are a good idea to have
small groups
and closer interaction
- Alan McCree: But it also may lead to splintered groups.
Special sessions for ICASSP 2006
- Roberto
Pieracinni
- A number of proposals were submitted. Will be circulated
to STC
for voting according to 2 couple of criteria.
Representation of the Speech
Community on the SPS Board of Govenors (BOG) - Alex Acero
- The best way for the issues of the speech community to be
given the appriate attention at the level of the BOG, is if we lobby
for better representation on the BOG.
- BOG meets at ICASSP and ICIP conferences
- Some activities: awards voting, member-at-large nominated
by board
- We need to have good speech representation on the BOG and
try and maintain some continuity between out-going and in-coming BOG members. We are working on ways
to revitalize speech.
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Election
of At-Large Members to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of
Govenors
The Board of Governors (BoG) makes most decisions about the Society,
such as creating new journals or technical committees, voting for
awards, or changing the Bylaws and rules of governance. The BoG is
composed of the Executive committee (President, Past-President,
President-Elect, VP Conferences, VP Publications, VP Awards and
Membership, VP Finance) and 9 members-at-large. The term for all
positions is 3 years. Positions in the executive committee are elected
by the BoG, whereas members-at-large are elected by all members of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society.
In 2004, there were 7 people in the BoG active in the speech
area (Alex Acero, Joe Campbell, Mark Clements, Rich Cox, Shigeru
Katagiri, Manfred Lang, and Doug O’Shaughnessy) and I feel like we've
made some progress in areas like awards (candidates active in speech
won two of the three Paper Awards, and two of the four Major Awards:
Technical Achievement Award, Meritorious Service Award, Young Author
Best Paper Award, and Best Paper Award) and the Transactions on Speech
and Audio Processing (the BoG approved a 75% increase in page budget
for 2006 plus the electronic pre-publication of accepted papers on
Xplore, which will help reduce the publication delay) among others. I’d
like to thank Joe Campbell and Doug O’Shaughnessy, whose term expired
in 2004, for their contributions. None of the 3 new members-at-large
elected for 2005 were active in speech, and the terms of the remaining
BoG members active in speech processing will expire at the end of 2005.
In 2006, there will be no members active in speech at the BoG unless
some of the 2006 members-at-large elected in this election represent
the speech field.
Now it’s time that time of the year to elect 3 new
members-at-large for 2006. As a member of the Society you may not have
voted in the past because you do not know the candidates, or because
it's not clear to you what difference each candidate will make in your
professional career. A lot of the decisions the IEEE Signal Processing
makes are passed for a vote in the BoG, so if you vote for somebody
working in your field (and if you're reading this newsletter chances
are that field is speech processing) your field will be better
represented in the Society. This year we have in the ballot two people
active in the speech area: Mazin Gilbert, formerly Rahim, (Chair of
IEEE Speech Technical Committee) and Isabel Trancoso (Editor-in-Chief
Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing). In 2004, the society
mailed 12,878 ballots and only 1,166 ballots were returned (the
candidate with most votes only got 492). This is a great opportunity to
elect your representatives in the BoG. Your vote can make a difference!
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Saras
Institute
History of Speech and Language
Technology
The History of Speech and Language
Technology Project is sponsored by the Saras Institute in affiliation
with the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
The overall mission is to collect, preserve and make readily available
information about significant research discoveries, technical
achievements and business developments in speech technology (speech
recognition, speech synthesis, speaker ID & verification, etc., and
their practical applications). They have, at present, a substantial
collection of documents and artifacts from various institutions dealing
with advances in speech technology (see the Sampler Page
for examples). They are interested in identifying and preserving
additional materials along these lines, especially if they might
otherwise be lost or discarded. Longer term goals include making these
materials readily available (including via the Internet) to historians
of science and technology and anyone else interested in the history of
speech technology. A particular effort is being made to record
interviews with seminal contributors in this field so that future
generations can better appreciate the insights and perspectives that
created this technology. A limited number of interviews
have already been conducted, but not yet transcribed. An overview of
the history of speech and language technology can be obtained by
consulting their Timeline
(which, however, has not yet been posted).
The Saras Institute is named for Saraswati, the
Hindu goddess of learning, knowledge, and wisdom, including the
invention of speech and writing.
The Dibner Institute for the
History of Science and Technology is an international center for
advanced research in the history of science and technology located on
the campus of MIT.
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Call for Papers for Special Issue of
The IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio
Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio is an
interdisciplinary research area to build computational models that aim
to achieve human performance in quality estimation of speech and
audio. The estimation of quality is becoming more important especially
in telecommunication applications, where Quality of Service is one of
the key considerations.
The goal of this special issue is to present recent progress and
advances in this area as well as remaining challenges. We invite
original, previously unpublished research works in all areas relevant
to the field. In particular, paper submissions are encouraged on the
following topics:
- Subjective basis for objective quality assessment
- Waveform models - based on waveforms of speech and audio
- Parametric models - based on telecommunication or broadcast
network parameters
- Intrusive models
- Non-intrusive (single-ended or output-based) models
- Objective diagnosis of quality impairment
- Objective and subjective assessment of conversational quality
- Issues and applications relevant to real-world problems
Submission procedure:
Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts
according to the
Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the
Transactions and as available on the web at
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note
that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory
overlength page charges, and color charges.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE
manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on
"Special Issue of T-SA on Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and
Audio." Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE
Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and indicate in the
Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for
publication in the Special Issue on Objective Quality Assessment of
Speech and Audio. We require a completed copyright form to be signed
and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate
the manuscript number on the top of the page.
Schedule:
| Submission deadline: |
February 1, 2006 |
| Notification of acceptance: |
July 31, 2006 |
| Final manuscript due: |
September 30, 2006 |
| Tentative publication date: |
January 2007 |
Guest Editors:
| Dr. Doh-Suk Kim |
Lucent Technologies, Whippany, USA |
dsk@lucent.com |
| Dr. John Beerends |
TNO Telecom, Delft, The Netherlands |
j.g.beerends@telecom.tno.nl |
| Dr. Oded Ghitza |
Sensimetrics Corporation, Somerville, MA, USA |
oded@sens.com |
| Dr. Peter Kroon |
Agere Systems, Allentown, PA, USA |
kroon@agere.com |
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Call for Papers for Special
Issue of
The IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications
A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
will be dedicated to recent advances in blind signal processing for
speech and audio applications. The special issue will represent a
vehicle whereby researchers can present new studies of blind signal
processing techniques for speech and audio applications, thus paving
the way for future developments in the field.
Prospective papers should be unpublished and
present solid research work offering innovative contributions either
from a methodological or application point of view. In particular,
submissions are encouraged on theory and methods related to the
following areas:
- Blind source separation of speech and audio signals
- Blind dereverberation of speech and audio signals
- Blind channel identification of acoustic systems
- Independent component analysis
- Sparse component analysis
- Computational auditory scene analysis
Submission procedure:
Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts
according to the
Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the
Transactions and as available on the web at
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note
that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory
overlength page charges, and color charges.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE
manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on
"Special Issue of T-SA on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio
Applications." Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE
Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and indicate in the
Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for
publication in the Special Issue on Blind Signal Processing for Speech
and Audio Applications. We require a completed copyright form to be
signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please
indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.
Schedule:
| Submission deadline: |
1 July, 2006 |
| Notification of acceptance: |
31 January, 2007 |
| Final manuscript due: |
15 March, 2007 |
| Tentative publication date: |
July 2007 |
Guest Editors:
| Dr. Shoji Makino |
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan |
maki@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp |
| Dr. Te-Won Lee |
University of California, San Diego, USA |
tewon@salk.edu |
| Dr. Guy Brown |
University of Sheffield, UK |
g.brown@dcs.shef.ac.uk |
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2006 Odyssey Speaker
Recognition Workshop
San
Juan Puerto Rico
June 28-30, 2006
|
CALL FOR
PAPERS
We invite
you to Odyssey
2006, an ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on speaker and
language recognition held at the scenic Ritz Carlton Hotel
in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In cooperation with the ISCA Speaker and
Language Characterization SIG, this workshop is hosted by The
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. 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),
1998 RLA2C Workshop (Avignon), 2001: A Speaker Odyssey
(Crete), and 2004 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop(Toledo).
Feature Tracks and Topics
Feature
tracks cover newtechniques 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.
NIST SRE ‘06 Workshop Evaluation Track
<>The
NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2006 Workshop will be held during
this week before 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: http://www.nist.gov/speech.
Paper Submission
Prospective
authors are invited to submit papers written in English. Papers will be
submitted via the Odyssey web site atwww.speakerodyssey.com.
The document style, templates, and submission form can be downloaded
from the Odyssey web site. Two members of the Scientific Committee will
review each paper. At least one author of each paper is required to
register. The workshop proceedings will be published on CD-ROM.
Schedule
|
Proposal due
|
15 January 2006
|
|
Notification of acceptance
|
27 February 2006
|
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Final papers due
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30 March 2006
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Preliminary program
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21 April 2006
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Workshop
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28 –30 June 2006
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International Workshop on
Spoken Language Translation
2005
Pittsburgh, PA
October 24 - 25, 2005
The
Consortium for Speech Translation
Advanced Research (C-STAR), an international partnership of research
laboratories engaged in automatic translation of spoken language,
organizes The International Workshop on Spoken
Language Translation (IWSLT) from Oct. 24th to 25th.
Speech translation systems combine speech
recognition (ASR) systems with machine translation (MT) systems. This year, IWSLT will focus on dealing with
the integration of speech, and how to achieve more robust translations
in the face
of recognition errors. An evaluation
campaign
will be held, using the multilingual BTEC corpus from the IWSLT-2004
evaluation,
but extended by using ASR output. In
addition,
multiple language tracks and integration modalities will be compared.
Two types of
submissions are invited: 1) participants in the evaluation campaign of
spoken
language translation technologies, and 2) technical papers on related
speech
translation activities, including reports on work from other programs
worldwide. Each participant in the
evaluation campaign is requested to submit a paper describing the
translation
system.
Evaluation
campaign
The evaluation of
spoken language translation systems will be done using the Basic Travel
Expression Corpus (BTEC). Participants
choose at least on of the following conditions:
Translation
directions:
Chinese-English
English-Chinese<>
Japanese-English
Korean-English
Arabic-English
<>
Data tracks:
·
Supplied
data: 20,000 sentence pairs for each translation direction
·
Unrestricted
data: supplied data, LDC data, WWW
<>·
C-STAR
track: Unrestricted data (including full
BTEC corpus or proprietary data.)
Translation
conditions:
·
Manual
transcription (plain sentences in BTEC)
·
ASR
output (1-best, N-best, lattices) of spoken BTEC sentences
Evaluation Methodology:
·
Subjective Evaluation (most popular track)
·
Automatic Evaluation (BLEU, NIST, WER, etc)
Important Dates:
Registration:
open
Training Corpus
Release:
May
20, 2005
Test Corpus
Release:
Aug
16, 2005
Result Submission
Due:
Aug
18, 2005
Camera-ready
Paper:
Sept
25, 2005
Technical Papers
To accomplish speech
translation, we have
to solve problems in MT for speech, especially for spontaneous speech
and
handle recognition errors in the ASR output. Technical papers are
invited on all matters related
to speech translation. Potential topics
for general speech translation session include, but are not limited to:
·
Spontaneous speech translation
·
Domain-limited and unlimited speech
translation
·
Tight coupling of MT with ASR
·
Word / Phrase Alignment
·
MT Decoding Algorithms
·
Multilingual ASR
·
Multilingual Parsing
·
Using comparable and non-parallel data
·
Domain and Language Portability
·
MT Evaluation Measures
Important
Dates:
Submission of Draft (8 pages): July
12, 2005
Notification of
Acceptance:
Aug
9, 2005
Camera-ready Paper:
Sept 25, 2005
Workshop:
Oct
24-25, 2005
Organizers:
<>Alex Waibel (CMU, USA
/ UKA, Germany;
Chair)
Chiori Hori (CMU, USA,
Co-Chair)
Stephan Vogel (CMU, USA,
Program Chair)
Tanja Schultz (CMU, USA,
Program Co-Chair)
Christian Boitet
(CLIPS, France)
Gianni Lazzari (ITC-irst, Italy)
Youngjik Lee
(ETRI, Korea)
Seiichi Yamamoto
(ATR, Japan)
Chengqing Zong
(CAS, China)
<>
Local Arrangements:
Celine
Carraux (CMU, USA)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
REMINDER
IEEE ASRU 2005
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Resort
Cancun, Mexico
November 27 – December 1, 2005
The Ninth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic
Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held November
27-December 1, 2005. The ASRU Workshops have a tradition of
bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate
and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in
automatic speech recognition and understanding. Papers in all areas of
human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis
placed on automatic speech recognition and understanding technology,
speech to text systems, spoken dialog systems, multilingual language
processing, robustness in ASR, spoken document retrieval, and
speech-to-speech translation.
The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster
presentations, panel discussions, and technology demonstrations. Ample
time will be allowed for
informal discussions and to enjoy the impressive tropical
setting.
PAPER
SUBMISSION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers,
including figures and references, to www.asru2005.org . All papers will
be handled and reviewed electronically. The deadline for paper submission is July
1, 2005. Instructions for submitting a paper can be found
at http://www.asru2005.org .
IMPORTANT DATES
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May 1, 2005
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Workshop registration opens |
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July 1, 2005
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Camera-ready paper submission deadline |
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August 15, 2005
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Paper Acceptance/Rejection notices emailed |
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September 15, 2005
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Revised papers due/Author registration deadline
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October 1, 2005
|
Workshop early registration deadline |
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October 27, 2005
|
Hotel reservation deadline |
|
Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2005
|
Workshop |
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CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
IEEE ASRU 2005
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Resort
Cancun, Mexico
November 27 – December 1, 2005
Prospective demonstrators are invited to submit 1-2 page proposals via
the workshop website for demonstrating leading edge technology within
the broad scope of the workshop. Proposals in all areas of human
language technology are encouraged to be submitted with emphasis
placed on:
- automatic speech recognition and understanding
technology
- speech to text systems
- spoken dialog systems
- multilingual language processing
- robustness in ASR
- spoken document retrieval
- speech-to-speech translation
All demo proposals will be handled and reviewed electronically.
Please identify any special audio-visual needs in your proposal.
IMPORTANT DATES
|
May 1, 2005
|
Workshop registration opens |
|
Aug. 15, 2005
|
Demo submission deadline |
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September 1, 2005
|
Demo decision notices emailed |
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September 15, 2005
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Author registration deadline |
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October 1, 2005
|
Workshop early registration deadline |
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October 27, 2005
|
Hotel reservation deadline |
Nov 27 - Dec. 1, 2005
|
Workshop |
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Sidney
Burrus Retires from Rice University
This June, Sidney Burrus will be stepping down as the Dean of the
George R. Brown School of Engineering and retiring from the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Faculty at Rice University.
To view a brief biography of Sidney Burrus, visit: http://www-ece.rice.edu/~csb/.
To view the program of a recent workshop honoring Prof. Burrus' 70th
birthday and 40 years of research and leadership in ditital signal
processing, visit: http://csb70.rice.edu/.
Burrus holds the Maxfield and Oshman Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering chair. He earned his bachelor's and master's
degrees in electrical engineering from Rice in 1958 and 1960 at Rice,
respectively, and returned to join the faculty in 1965 after earning
his doctorate at Stanford. Burrus has served as chair of the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, director of the Computer and
Information Technology Institute and master of Lovett College.
From 1984 to 1992 he served as chair of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department. He was named Dean of the School of Engineering
in 1998. In 1975 and again in 1979 he was a guest professor at
the Universitaet Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. During the summer of
1984 he was a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University,
England, and during the academic year 1989-90, he was a visiting
professor at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Throughout his career, Burrus has been honored for his work in the
classroom and in research laboratories. He received teaching awards
throughout his tenure as a faculty member at Rice. He earned a Humboldt
Award in 1975, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in 1985, was a
distinguished lecturer for the Signal Processing Society and for the
Circuits and Systems Society from 1989 through 1992, and received the
Signal Processing Society Award in 1995.
In addition to his teaching and research work load, Burrus is a member
of the university's Ad Hoc Committee on General Education. He has
served on advisory and review panels for the National Science
Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and various universities.
"Sidney Burrus helped found Rice's DSP group in 1968 and build it into
one of the world's premier DSP research programs," said Richard
Baraniuk, professor of electrical and computer engineering. "It is
difficult to overestimate his contributions in this field. He wrote
some of the foundational texts in DSP, and his work with Texas
Instruments in the early 1970s set off a chain reaction that eventually
caused the company to rethink its entire business model."
Sidney brought an intimate knowledge of the challenges and the
strengths of Rice and the engineering school. He is an outstanding
scholar, has terrific people skills, and is very familiar with where
we've been and where we needed to go.
Rice held a two-day celebration in February 2005 titled "csb@70" recoginizing Sidney's
leadership in the field of DSP - as well as his 40th anniversary on the
faculty and his 70th birthday. The celebration began with an
invitation-only dinner and concluded with a daylong DSP workshop,
featuring such DSP luminaries as John Treichler '69, founder, director
and chief technology officer of Applied Signal Tech; Ronald Schafer,
distinguished technologist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; James
McClellan '72, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology; Sanjit
Mitra, a professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara; David
C. Munson, a professor at the University of Michigan; and Fred Mintzer,
current president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and of IBM
Thomas Watson Research Laboratories.
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Postdoctoral
Fellowship Position
in Speech
Recognition
and
Speech Modeling at McGill University
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to perform basic research as part
of a three year project in the general area automatic speech
recognition. The position will be in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at McGill University in Montreal,
Canada. The candidate should have hands-on experience
with speech processing systems and should have a strong
background in statistical modeling, signal processing, and/or speech
analysis. The candidate should also have facility with the
use of high level programming languages for developing protoype systems
and simulations. Fluency in English is required and the ability
to work
in a small team is also important.
The
position is in support of a Canadian funded NSERC project that is being
conducted in association with the
European 6th Frame Project DIVINES.
The overall goal of the project is to overcome deficiencies in existing
acoustic feature analysis and phonetic and lexical modeling
techiques. This will be accomplished through
a methodology involving the diagnosis and modeling of instrinsic
variabilities in ASR under a variety of conditions.
McGill University is located in Montreal, an exciting
cosmopolitan city in the Province of Quebec. Montreal is the home of a
number of speech recognition Research and Development Laboratories
including Centre Recherche Informatique Montreal (CRIM), ScanSoft
Canada, Nuance Canada, Nu Echo, and others. Montreal is composed
of a bilingual
population with a blend of European and North American culture.
Qualified applicants are
invited to submit a resume together with the names and addresses of two
references by email to:
McGill University
Richard Rose
McGill University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McConnell Engineering Building, Room 813
3480 University Street
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2A7
email:
phone: 514-398-1749
fax: 514-398-4470
tment of
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Links to
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
(Organized by Date)
ICME2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.
http://www.icme2005.org
Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2005)
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, July24-27
http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/avisa/avsp05
SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialog
Lisbon, Portugal , September 2-3, 2005
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop6
ITRW 2005 Workshop on DSP for IN-VEHICLE and MOBILE SYSTEMS
Sesimbra, Portugal, September 3, 2005
http://dspincars.sdsu.edu/
EUROSPEECH 2005 9th European Conference on Speech Communication
and Technology
Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005
http://www.interspeech2005.org/
Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
Aix-en-Provence, September 10-12, 2005
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/Diss05
IEEE WASPAA2005 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to
Audio and Acoustics
New Paltz, New York, October 16-19, 2005
http://www.LNT.de/~WASPAA05/
SPECOM 2005 - 10th International Conf. on Speech and Computers
Patras, Greece, October 17-19, 2005
http://www.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/specom2005.htm
MMSP-2005 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
Shanghai, China, October 30- November 1, 2005
http://www.mmsp05.missouri.edu/
IEEE ASRU2005 Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
Workshop
Cancun, Mexico, November 27 - December 1, 2005
http://www.asru2005.org
ICASSP2006
Toulouse, France May 15-19, 2006
http://www.icassp2006.org
2006 Odyssey Speaker
Recognition Workshop
San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 28 - 30, 2006
www.speakerodyssey.com
ICME2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 9 - 12.
http://www.icme2006.org
ICPR2006 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Hong Kong, August 20-24, 2006.
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06/
HCI2005 Human Animated Character
Interaction Workshop
Edinburgh, UK, September 6, 2005.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cogsys/workshop/
INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Pittsburgh, PA, USA September 17-21, 2006
http://www.interspeech2006.org/
ICASSP2007
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2007, April 17-20
INTERSPEECH 2007
Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007
http://www.interspeech2007.org/
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