26.618, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-618. Wed Jan 28 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.618, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:12:09
From: Felix Rau [f.rau at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Workshop on Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities

Full Title: Workshop on Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities 
Short Title: SAT4DH 

Date: 11-Sep-2015 - 11-Sep-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Joachim Köhler
Meeting Email: joachim.koehler at iais.fraunhofer.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The field of Digital Humanities (DH) combines methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social sciences with tools provided by digital publishing and computing (such as data visualization, audio-visual indexing, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, etc.). It is of increasing interest for the speech technology community: Firstly, this domain has a high demand for speech technology and applications. There are several areas in the Digital Humanities that involve huge amounts of audio-visual data sources (e.g. oral history, archives of special historical fields, endangered languages, etc.). Speech technology can help to get a better access to these data and to extract relevant information. This should allow scientists in the Digital Humanities to generate and answer new research questions.  Secondly, audio-visual data sets pose new research challenges for speech and audio researchers: Often the recordings of Digital Humanities scenarios are small, fragmented and of limited quality. Little established linguistic knowledge is usually available. Further, the speech is often natural and spontaneous. Therefore, new and better speech processing techniques are required.

Hence, this workshop is designed to draw the attention of the speech technology community to the field of Digital Humanities and to connect researchers within and (in the past) tangential to this domain.

Organizers/ Chairs:

Joachim Köhler, Fraunhofer IAIS, joachim.koehler at iais.fraunhofer.de
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, fmetze at cs.cmu.edu 
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, University of Cologne, n.himmelmann at uni-koeln.de

Scientific Committee:

Anke Lüdeling
Chris Biemann
Florian Schiel
Gerhard Heyer
Géza Németh 
Haizhou Li
Jeff Good
Maciej Karpinsky
Mark Liberman
Marten Düring
Roeland Ordelman
Rolf Bardeli
Sebastian Drude
Tamás Várady
Thang Vu

Format and Location:

The workshop will take place in the Felix-Klein lecture hall, located on the 5th floor of the new Paulinum of the University Leipzig. The one-day workshop will consist of two invited talks by experts from humanities and speech technology, each followed by presentations of the accepted papers and, at the end of the day, an opportunity to present late-breaking ideas or thoughts, and discuss them.

Call for Papers:

Papers must be submitted via an online submission system (Easychair) and will be peer reviewed. Proceedings will be published and archived through ISCA.

For further information see https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/submissions

Important Dates:

Full paper submission due: May 25, 2015 
Notification of paper acceptance: June 22,  2015
Camera ready submission due: July  27,  2015
Registration and full payment due (early birds): Tbd, 2015
Registration and full payment due (late registration): Tbd, 2015
Interspeech conference: September, 6 - 10, 2015
SAT4DH workshop: September 11,  2015

Papers must be submitted via an online submission system (Easychair) and will be submitted to a peer review process.

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