[Corpora-List] Interspeech'2005 (Eurospeech) - Call for Papers [deadline extension]

[Cristina Mota]

(apologies for multiple copies)

                    EXTENDED DEADLINE: APRIL 14, 2005


                      Interspeech 2005 / Eurospeech
                          September 4--8, 2005
                            Lisbon, Portugal

                         www.interspeech2005.org

                   Theme: Ubiquitous Speech Processing

                            CALL FOR PAPERS
                       Paper submission is now open

ISCA, together with the Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech organizing
committee, would like to encourage submission of papers for the
upcoming conference.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
   Phonetics and Phonology
   Discourse and Dialogue
   Prosody
   Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information
   Speech Production
   Speech Perception
   Physiology and Pathology
   Spoken Language Acquisition, Development and Learning
   Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation
   Single- and Multi-channel Speech Enhancement
   Speech Coding and Transmission
   Spoken Language Generation and Synthesis
   Speech Recognition
     Acoustic processing for ASR, language and pronunciation modeling,
     adaptation and general robustness issues, engineering issues in ASR
     (e.g. searches, large vocabulary), etc.
   Spoken Language Understanding
   Speaker Characterization and Recognition
   Language/Dialect Identification
   Multi-modal/Multi-media Processing
   Spoken Language Resources and Annotation
   Spoken/Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
   Spoken Language Extraction/Retrieval
   Spoken Language Translation
   Spoken Language Technology for Education (e-learning)
   New Applications
   Evaluation and Standardization
   Others


PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for full paper submission (4 pages) has been extended to
April 14, 2005, due to many requests from potential authors. Paper
submission is done exclusively via the conference website, using the
submission guidelines. No previously published papers should be
submitted. Each corresponding author will be notified by e-mail of the
acceptance of the paper by June 10, 2005. Minor updates will be
allowed during June 10 - June 17.


SPECIAL SESSIONS
Interspeech2005 received 27 proposals for special sessions. The
motivation and scope of each selected proposal can be found on the
conference website. Paper submission for special sessions follows
exactly the same procedure as for regular topics.

   - Emotional Speech Analysis and Synthesis: Towards a Multimodal
Approach
     Organizers: Ellen Douglas-Cowie and Roddy Cowie
   - E-inclusion and Spoken Language Processing
     Organizers: Paul Dalsgaard and Roger Moore
   - The Blizzard Challenge 2005 : Evaluating Corpus-based Speech
Synthesis
     on Common Databases
     Organizers: Alan W. Black and Keiichi Tokuda
   - Gender and Age Issues in Speech and Language Research
     Organizers: Els den Os, Lori Lamel, and Martin Russell
   - Access and Retrieval for Multilingual Multimedia Portals
     Organizers: Helen Meng, Jianhua Tao, Els den Os, Giridharan Iyengar,
     and Bhuvana Ramabhadran
   - Early Language Acquisition: Infant Studies, Animal Models and
Theories
     Organizer: Francisco Lacerda
   - Rapid Development of Spoken Dialogue System: Data Driven,
     Knowledge-based and Hybrid Methods
     Organizers: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Junlan Feng, Juan M. Huerta,
     Roberto Pieraccini, Manny Rayner, and Ye-Yi Wang
   - Human factors, User Experience and Natural Language Application
Design
     Organizers: Liz Alba, M. Gabriela Alvarez-Ryan, Fang Chen,
     and Kristiina Jokinen
   - Speech Recognition in Ubiquitous Networking and Context-Aware
Computing
     Organizers: Zheng-Hua Tan, Paul Dalsgaard and Borge Lindberg
   - Speech Inversion
     Organizer: Victor Sorokin
   - Bridging the Gap Between Human and Automatic Speech Processing
     Organizers: Katrin Kirchoff and Louis ten Bosch


PLENARY SESSIONS
   - ISCA Medalist
   - Fernando Pereira, University of Pennsylvania, USA
     Title: Linear Models for Structure Prediction
   - Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI, USA
     Title: Spontaneous Speech:
            How People Really Talk, and Why Engineers Should Care
   - PANEL "Ubiquitous Speech Processing"
     Roger K. Moore, Alex Acero, Jordan Cohen, Paul Dalsgaard, and
     Sadaoki Furui


TUTORIALS
Tutorials for Interspeech'2005 will be held on September 4th,
organized by internationally recognized experts in their fields. The
idea behind the tutorials is to provide an overview of the topic as
well as to bring to light the recent developments in fields concerning
spoken language processing.

   - Languages for Developing Multimodal Applications
     James A. Larson
   - VoIP
     Gerald Karam and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
   - Usability Theory and Practice in Speech Interaction System Design
     Fang Chen, Ellen Haas, and Kristiina Jokinen
   - Visions, Technology and Business of Conversational Machines
     Mazin Gilbert and Roberto Pieraccini
   - Forensic Speech Science
     Anders Eriksson and Andrzej Drjgajlo
   - Building Synthetic Voice
     Alan Black


IMPORTANT DATES:
Full paper submission deadline:                       April 14, 2005
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection            June 10, 2005
Early registration deadline:                          June 25, 2005

For further information:         www.interspeech2005.org
or send email to                 info at interspeech2005.org

Organizer:
L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC ID Lisboa
Rua Alves Redol, 9 - 1000-029 Lisbon - Portugal
Phone:+351 213100268    Fax: +351 213145843   www.l2f.inesc-id.pt

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