29.201, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/Portugal

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Subject: 29.201, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/Portugal

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:34:10
From: Lorenzo Spreafico [l.spreafico at unibz.it]
Subject: New Developments in Speech Sensing and Imaging

 
Full Title: New Developments in Speech Sensing and Imaging 

Date: 23-Jun-2018 - 23-Jun-2018
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Lorenzo Spreafico
Meeting Email: lorenzo.spreafico at unibz.it
Web Site: http://labphon16.labphon.org/se-04.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 11-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Articulatory data are critical to our understanding of speech production, but
investigating the vocal tract is a challenging task because the articulators
differ widely in their anatomy and physiology. In recent times, engineering
physics and biomedical engineering have been revolutionizing the way we
record, visualize, and measure the function of some organs of the human body
using, for example, photoacoustic imaging or microwave tomography. However,
most novel methods and technologies in medical imaging are not designed with
the investigation of the speech organs in mind. The workshop aims at closing
this gap, and gathers scientists from different research areas in order to
create a synergy on new techniques and tools for the visual representations of
the vocal tract and the dynamics of articulators, as well as the detection of
speech signals.


Call for Papers:

Innovative methods and techniques are playing an increasingly relevant role in
the biological and medical sciences. The visualization of any anatomic detail
or physiological parameter in humans through the form of imaging greatly
contributes to our understanding of both typical and atypical processes.
Nevertheless, the outstanding potential of emerging biomedical engineering
methods and techniques to address the fundamental question of the nature of
human speech sounds and sound systems remains underdeveloped.

Thus, this workshop aims to stimulate contact between researchers active in
laboratory phonology and specialists in engineering, industrial, and clinical
development in the areas of speech sensing and imaging. The workshop will
offer participants an interdisciplinary platform for presenting and discussing
new knowledge and findings regarding the acquisition, imaging, analysis, and
modelling of visible and non-visible speech articulators in order to examine
the organization and structure of speech, as well as in the field of
innovative speech sensing technologies.

The workshop welcomes contributions ranging from established and advanced to
future methods and technologies, but, ideally, the focus is on the deferred
and real-time visualization of speech processes with minimal invasiveness.

All interested parties are encouraged to submit proposals for oral or poster
presentations, including researchers outside of the laboratory phonology
community of scholars. Potential contributions include, but are not limited
to, the following topics:

- Principles for the detection and estimation of speech articulators and the
vocal tract;
- Direct and indirect measuring devices for speech articulation and the vocal
tract;
- Multi-modal measuring systems;
- Data integration and fusion;
- Articulatory data processing, analysis, and modelling;
- Design and management of articulatory corpora;
- Non-acoustic sensing of speech.

The above list is not exhaustive. Please contact us to confirm whether or not
your research is appropriate for the workshop.

Six abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. The workshop may
include a poster session, depending on the number of submitted proposals.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 11 February. Abstracts should be
written in English and should be restricted to 4000 characters (including
spaces) and two pages in A4 format, including graphs and references. Abstracts
should be submitted in *.doc format. Please use the MS Office Word template
provided on the LabPhon16 website.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=labphon16satellite




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