27.2324, Calls: Lang Documentation, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Subject: 27.2324, Calls: Lang Documentation, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy

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Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 21:49:52
From: Amedeo De Dominicis [dedomini at unitus.it]
Subject: Speech Audio Archives: Preservation, Restoration, Annotation

Full Title: Speech Audio Archives: Preservation, Restoration, Annotation 

Date: 18-May-2017 - 19-May-2017
Location: Rome, Italy 
Contact Person: Amedeo De Dominicis
Meeting Email: dedomini at unitus.it
Web Site: http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Convegni&file=lista&func=Convegni_edit&Id=1350 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

As is well-known, there are many audio corpora out there in Europe and all
over the world, witnessing an extraordinary cultural and linguistic richness
awaiting research and cultural heritage exploitation. One needs not spend a
lot of words to underline the extreme importance of this diverse repository in
terms of cultural heritage preservation. They are an endless mine of
linguistic variability even within one and the same politically homogeneous
territory. It is however equally well-known that these different corpora are
based on a multiplicity of formats and stored in databases using incompatible
standards, which make their interoperability impossible at the present stage.
It is thus very important and urgent to develop intelligent tools to foster
the attainment of such a crucial goal.

During the past 50 years many resources have been collected and recorded by
several national research centers (mostly dedicated to dialectological and
sociolinguistic studies). They witness language usage by speakers differing in
geographical origin, age and educational status. In quite a few cases, these
materials constitute the living evidence of a language state that has now
disappeared.

The European scientific community has in recent times turned more sensitive to
problems relating to the maintenance and exploitation of oral archives
witnessing important cultural layers of language diversity. But if we do not
act now this treasure may be lost forever. The reason is simple: a great deal
of the most valuable materials have been collected time back, and are still
preserved on obsolete types of support, deemed to perish forever before long.
This endangers their preservation and cramps their consultation.

In order to make these cultural assets available to a trans-national
circulation, the speech materials have to be annotated, supplied with metadata
for on-line searching queries, and - if necessary - restored. We need thus an
interdisciplinary approach developing strong synergies among many disciplines.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions that deal with the following topics:

- Linguistic annotations
- Audio digital restoration / speech enhancement
- Creation and organization of speech audio archives

The official language of the Workshop is English. All papers, written in
English (max 12 pages, figures, tables and references included) must concern
the analysis of (at least) one of the files in the Workshop Speech Corpus (see
below). The authors may also add other corpora to their analysis objects, but
it is compulsory to develop a detailed analysis of (at least) one of the audio
files of the Workshop Corpus. This constraint concerning the use of at least
one of the audio files of the Workshop Speech Corpus stems from our will to
provide all authors with a common background, and specially to develop and
foster a possible and highly desirable dialog among scholars coming from
different fields of the scientific community (linguists, phoneticians,
engineers, computer scientists, etc.) during the Workshop.

The redaction of the papers must follow this electronic form (to download:
“Word Template.doc”).

The authors must send their manifestation of interest to submit a paper
(containing authors, title, and a very very short abstract (up to 100 words),
with the mention of the topic they refer to) to this address:
convegni at lincei.it. Then they will send the full paper to the same address.
The papers will be submitted to a peer review process and the evaluation will
be send to the authors for acceptance/rejection, and – in case of acceptance –
for the necessary improvements of the text.
Maximum number of papers: a maximum of 15 papers will be accepted. For each
paper, the Accademia dei Lincei will refund the travel fares up to 120 euros
per paper (not per author!), and offer a room in the its “Foresteria”. In case
of papers by more than one author, the reimbursement will be sent just to the
first one, and the room will be reserved just to one of the authors.

Workshop Speech Corpus

You can download the corpus from: 
http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Convegni&file=lista&func=Convegni_edit&I
d=1350
You will find a list of audio files and a corresponding list of TextGrid
(Praat) files, where the audio is roughly annotated. Of course, feel free to
modify the annotation in the TextGrids, according to your evaluations and
purposes.

Important Dates:

Deadline for manifestation of interest submission: August 1, 2016
Deadline for full papers submission: December 1, 2016
Deadline for full papers acceptance notification: Mars 1, 2017
Camera-ready Paper due: April 1, 2017
Workshop: May 18-19, 2017

Proceedings:

The Proceedings will be published by the Accademia dei Lincei in the
“Contributi del Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare ‘Beniamino Segre’'' (ISSN
0394-0705).
Moreover, the Scientific Committee will select a number of papers that will be
proposed to an International ranked Journal for a thematic issue.

Scientific Committee:

Silvia Calamai (University of Siena)
Sergio Canazza (University of Padova)
Amedeo De Dominicis (University of Tuscia and Lincei)
Brigitte Bigi (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence)
Antonio Rodà (University of Padova)

See:
http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Convegni&file=lista&func=Convegni_edit&I
d=1350

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