18.424, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium; General Linguistics/Greece

Wed Feb 7 18:22:00 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-424. Wed Feb 07 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.424, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium; General Linguistics/Greece

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1)
Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: Interspeech 2007 

2)
Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Elissavet Nouchoutidou < enouchou at phil.uoa.gr >
Subject: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:17:59
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: Interspeech 2007 

Full Title: Interspeech 2007 

Date: 27-Aug-2007 - 31-Aug-2007
Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Contact Person: Dirk Van Compernolle
Meeting Email: info at interspeech2007.org
Web Site: http://www.interspeech2007.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Mar-2007 

Meeting Description:

Interspeech 2007 is the eighth conference in the annual series of Interspeech
events and also the tenth biennial Eurospeech conference. The conference is
jointly organized by scientists from the Netherlands and Belgium, and will be
held in Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007, under the sponsorship of the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

The Interspeech meetings are considered to be the top international conferences
in spoken language processing, with more than 1000 attendees
from universities, industry, and government agencies. The conference offers
the prospect of meeting the future leaders of our field, exchanging ideas,
and exploring opportunities for collaboration, employment, and sales through
keynote talks, tutorials, technical sessions, exhibits, and poster sessions.
In recent years the Interspeech meetings have taken place in a number of
exciting venues including most recently Pittsburgh, Lisbon, Jeju Island
(Korea), Geneva, Denver, Aalborg (Denmark), and Beijing. 

Interspeech 2007
August 27--31, 2007
Antwerp, Belgium

Call for Papers (paper submission is now open) 

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference 
on Speech Science and Speech Technology and it solicits papers in the 
following areas and topics: 

Human speech production, perception and communication
  Phonology and phonetics
  Discourse and dialogue
  Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)
  Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
  Speech production 
  Speech perception
  Physiology and pathology
  Spoken language acquisition, development and learning

Speech and Language technology
  Speech and audio processing
  Speech enhancement
  Speech coding and transmission
  Spoken language generation and synthesis
  Speech recognition
  Spoken language understanding
  Accent and language identification
  Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing
  Multimodal/multimedia signal processing
  Speaker characterization and recognition

Spoken language systems and applications
  Dialogue systems
  Systems for information retrieval 
  Systems for translation
  Applications for aged and handicapped persons
  Applications for learning and education
  Other applications

Resources, standardization and evaluation
  Spoken language resources and annotation
  Evaluation and standardization

Paper Submission:

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page 
papers (including figures and references) via the conference 
website by March 23, 2007 midnight at the International Date 
Line West. Since the conference takes place early this year, the 
paper submission deadline will not be postponed by any significant 
amount of time.

The paper preparation guidelines can be found on the conference
website. They stipulate that authors may submit multimedia files 
to illustrate their contribution. These multimedia files will 
have to be incorporated in one ZIP archive.

The conference will host several Special Sessions (see conference 
website). If authors want their paper to be considered for one 
of these Sessions, they can specify that during paper submission. 
Irrespective of this specification, all papers will follow the same 
electronic review procedure.

Authors will have to declare that their contribution is original 
and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g., another 
conference, workshop, or journal).

Each corresponding author will be notified by e-mail of the acceptance 
or rejection of his paper by May 25, 2007. Minor updates of accepted 
papers will be allowed during May 25 - June 3, 2007.

More information is available on the conference website at 
http://www.interspeech2007.org

Important Dates:

Full paper submission deadline: March 23, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: May 25, 2007
Early registration deadline: June 22, 2007

Dirk Van Compernolle, Lou Boves - Conference Chairs
Jean-Pierre Martens, Helmer Strik - Technical Program Chairs

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:18:05
From: Elissavet Nouchoutidou < enouchou at phil.uoa.gr >
Subject: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics 

Full Title: 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics 
Short Title: APC 4 

Date: 01-Jun-2007 - 03-Jun-2007
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Elissavet Nouchoutidou
Meeting Email: enouchou at phil.uoa.gr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2007 

Meeting Description:
In 2001 the 1st Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics was hosted by the
University of Athens. Since then, it has been organized biennially with the aim
of bringing together postgraduate students from within the various areas of the
discipline in order to discuss their research. 

1st Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce that the 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in
Linguistics will take place on 1-3 June 2007 at the University of Athens. 
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) and
poster presentations of current postgraduate research. We welcome all
presentations on any topic in linguistics. 

Abstract submission: 30 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2007
The languages of the conference are Greek and English.

Abstract submission guidelines: 
- Abstracts should be sent electronically as attachment files (Word or PDF),
with ''abstract submission'' in the subject field to enouchou at phil.uoa.gr. 
- Length: up to 400 words. 
- The abstract should be anonymous. The author's name, academic affiliation and
area of research should be included in the body of the e-mail.
- In the body of the message, please indicate ''presentation'' or ''poster
session''. 
- If you are using any special font, please attach it to the message.
Only electronic submissions will be considered. 

Presenters will be invited to submit their paper for publication in the
Proceedings of the 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference.

The invited speakers will be announced in the second call for papers.

We look forward to receiving your abstract and to seeing you soon in Athens.

                                      The Organizing Committee

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