[Corpora-List] INTERSPEECH 2011

[Piero Cosi]

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INTERSPEECH2011 - Florence, Italy / August 27-31, 2011
http://www.interspeech2011.org

First Announcement

Dear Colleague,

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on 
challenges
surrounding the science and technology of  Spoken Language Processing (SLP) 
both in
humans and in machines.

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian SLP community will 
host
INTERSPEECH 2011 under the sponsorship of the International Speech 
Communication
Association (ISCA).

INTERSPEECH 2011 will be the 12th conference in the annual series of 
INTERSPEECH
events. It will be held in Florence, Italy, 27-31 August 2011, with the 
support of  ISCA,
AISV (ISCA Italian Regional SIG), CNR (National Research Council), and UniFI 
(University
of Florence).

The theme of INTERSPEECH 2011 will be: "Speech science and technology for 
real life"
and under this theme the conference will emphasize an interdisciplinary 
approach
covering all aspects of speech science and  technology spanning the basic 
theories to
applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by 
internationally
renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special sessions are planned. A 
number of
satellite events will take place immediately before and after the 
conference. Please follow
the details of these and other news at our website www.interspeech2011.org.

INTERSPEECH Proceedings have been indexed in ISI web of science, Engineering
Index and Scopus.

The venue of Interspeech 2011 will be the "Firenze Fiera Congress and 
Exhibition Center".

For the complete Call for Papers and other Calls please visit our website at
http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/calls.php

We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence!

Sincerely,
Piero Cosi, Renato De Mori
Chairs





Papers
We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but 
not limited to:
* Speech Perception and Production
* Phonology, Phonetics
* Para-/Non- linguistic Information
* Language Processing
* Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals
* Speaker and Language Identification
* Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis
* Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
* Technologies and Systems for New Applications
* Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech Translation, 
and
   Information Retrieval
* Application, Evaluation, Standardization, Spoken Language Resource

Special Session Topics will be defined after January  21, 2011
Paper Submission Procedure
Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2011 proceedings should be up to four pages in 
length and
conform to the format given in the paper preparation guidelines and author 
kits which will be
available on the INTERSPEECH 2011 website along with the Final Call for 
Papers. Optionally,
authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, to be 
included on the Proceedings
CD-ROM. Authors shall also declare that their contributions are original and 
not being
submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or 
journal). Papers
must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system, which will open 
in early February
2011. The deadline for submitting a paper is 31 March 2011. This date will 
not be extended.
Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to
submission at interspeech2011.org

Language
The working language of the conference is English.



Sincerely,
Roberto Pieraccini, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Technical Chairs ( technical_chair at interspeech2011.org  )


Special Sessions
Submissions of Special Session proposals are encouraged for the upcoming 
conference, covering
interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest 
related to the main
conference topics.

Each special session proposal should contain the following information:
1. Title of the proposed Session
2. Names/affiliation of organizers (including brief bio and contact 
information)
3. An introduction (maximum 1 page) stating the importance of the topic and 
the objectives
    of the proposed Session
4. Tentative/confirmed list of papers
5. (titles/affiliations/authors) to be submitted to the proposed Session 
(optional)

Proposals should clearly describe the topic and explain why the topic cannot 
be covered
appropriately in regular sessions.

Papers for approved Special Sessions should be submitted following the same
schedule/procedure as for regular papers, and will undergo the same 
reviewing process by
anonymous and independent reviewers as regular papers.

Proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee based on the 
relevance/significance of
the topic and potential interest to the conference attendees.
Submission Procedure
Prospective organizers are invited to submit a proposal via email to
specialsessions at interspeech2011.org  before January 14, 2011.
Notification of acceptance of proposals is scheduled for January 21, 2011.


Sincerely,
Amanda Stent, Mauro Falcone
Special Sessions Chairs


Tutorials
Submissions of tutorial proposals are encouraged, covering interdisciplinary 
topics and/or
important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference 
topics.

The following information should be included in each proposal:
* Title of the tutorial;
* Duration (a tutorial can last either three or six hours. in the latter 
case, it will be
   structured in two sessions of three hours);
* Names/affiliation of the presenters;
* A brief biography of each presenter, including selected publications and 
references to
   web pages of relevant interest for the review;
* E-mail address and other possible contact information;
* An introduction (maximum 1 page), including the importance of the topic, 
the objectives
   and the novelty of the proposed tutorial, and a brief outline of the main 
target audience;
* A presentation outline (maximum 2 pages), specifying how the presentation 
would be
   organized in the case of multiple presenters;
* A brief description of the material that would be distributed to the 
participant;
* A list of any type of special equipment necessary for the presentation, 
including
information if such equipment is required to be supplied by the conference 
organisers;
* Other possible requirements.

Submission Procedure
Prospective tutorial presenters should submit proposals by email to
tutorials at interspeech2011.org  before December 15, 2010. Proposals will be 
evaluated by the
Organizing Committee for relevance, quality, value, and novelty - 
introducing new tools, ideas,
and topics to the Interspeech community. Notification of acceptance is 
scheduled for 15 January
2011.

Sincerely,
Maurizio Omologo
Tutorial Chair





Show&Tell
We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech 2011. 
Show&Tell will
provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry 
and government
the opportunity to demonstrate their latest research systems and interact 
with the attendees in
an informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and 
fundamental research
in areas of human speech production, perception, communication, and speech 
and language
technology and systems.

Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech Program 
Committee, who
will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each 
submission. At least one
author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the 
conference, and
demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted 
demonstration paper will
be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceeding.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and 
considered for the Best
Show&Tell Award.

Submission guidelines:
* All manuscripts must be in English.
* The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages.
* All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style specified in 
the Interspeech
   2011 authors' kit.
* All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original 
contributions
   that have not been submitted to any other conference.
* Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as demonstration 
videos, to be
   included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is accepted.
* Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of August 
28th, and 29th.
   Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless access 
will be
   available.
* Papers should be submitted by email to showandtell at interspeech2011.org

Important dates:
Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011
Acceptance notification: May 26th, 2011

Sincerely,
Mazin Gilbert
Show & Tell Chair



Satellite Events
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2011 invites proposals for satellite 
events at
INTERSPEECH 2011 to be held in Florence, Italy, on 27-31 August 2011.
The Organizing Committee would be pleased to host various workshops and 
conferences to be
organized as satellite events of INTERSPEECH 2011 in order to stimulate 
research fields and
disciplines related to speech and language. If you are interested in 
organizing a satellite event, or
would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, 
please email to
workshops at interspeech2011.org

It is strongly recommended that proposals are submitted as soon as possible, 
since any
INTERSPEECH satellite event needs to get a prior official approval by ISCA. 
Proposals should
include: date and location of the workshop, a draft of the program, a list 
of the
technical/scientific committee members.

A useful cheklist and a document with guidelines for organizing workshops 
can be found at
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscaworkshop/workshops.php



Sincerely,
Cinzia Avesani
Satellite Events Chair


Sponsors
Any INTERSPEECH is a major undertaking, and INTERSPEECH 2011 is no 
different.

We seek the assistance of all organizations to make INTERSPEECH 2011 a 
success. Donations
from corporate, academic, non-profit, government, and individual sponsors 
would be
immensely appreciated.

Your support brings you various benefits. For details, kindly view the
Support INTERSPEECH 2011 page or Invitation to Sponsor
( http://www.interspeech2011.org/docs/IS2011-Sponsorship.pdf  [PDF, 586KB] )
or contact:  sponsors at interspeech2011.org


Exhibitors

Are you interested in exhibit your speech technologies and applications at 
INTERSPEECH 2011?

We think this is an excellent opportunity for you to reach out to the 1000 
attendees we expect in
Florence.

For details, kindly view the Invitation to Sponsors & Exhibitors [PDF, 
586KB] document
or contact:  sponsors at interspeech2011.org


Sincerely,
Andrea Fiorio, Andrea Paoloni
Sponsors & Exhibitors Chairs



Important dates

Full paper submission deadline:    31 March 2011
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection:  26 May 2011
Camera-ready paper due:     09 June 2011
Early/Authors' registration deadline:    10 June 2011
Tutorials dates:      27 August 2011
Conference:       28-31 August 2011


Please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2011.org


Organizing Secretariat


Dott.ssa Alessandra Colombo
Promo Leader Service Congressi
Head quarter PLS Group
Via della Mattonaia, 17
50121 Firenze (Italy)
Phone +39 055 2462 201
            +39 055 2462 201
Fax +39 055 2462 270
interspeech2011 at promoleader.com 



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