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First call for papers: ICNLSP 2019, 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, Italy
by Abbas Mourad 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear colleagues, We are glad to announce ICNLSP 2019 , the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held on September 12th, 13th 2019 at the University of Trento , Italy. ICNLSP 2015 and ICNLSP 2018 are indexed in DBLP, and published in Elsevier and IEEExplore respectively. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers. This year, a workshop on NLP solutions for under-resourced languages will be held with ICNLSP.Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference.The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2019 but not limited to:Signal processing, acoustic modeling Architecture of speech recognition system Deep learning for speech recognition Analysis of speech Paralinguistics in Speech and Language Pathological speech and language Speech coding Speech comprehension Summarization Speech Translation Speech synthesis Speaker and language identification Phonetics, phonology and prosody Cognition and natural language processing Text categorization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational Social Web Arabic dialects processing Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora New language models Arabic OCR Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Requirements engineering and NLP NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Knowledge fundamentals Knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Machine translation Submission Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair.https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2019Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. Workshop The workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages NSURL 2019 will be held with ICNLSP 2019. Important datesSubmission deadline: 30 April 2019Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2019Camera-ready paper due: 10 July 2019Conference dates: 12, 13 September 2019 Chairs:Dr. Mourad AbbasDr. Abed Alhakim Freihat Contact:icnlsp2019@easychair.org Dr. Mourad Abbas Research director Computational Linguistics Department, Director Chairman of CRSTDLA Scientific councilAlgiers, ALgeria http://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9

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SIGUL Newsletter #3
by Claudia Soria 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the third SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages ****************** *Access to Knowledge* A 3-day international conference on "Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages Technology" (SOIL-Tech) (http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index-en.jsp) took place at JNU (Delhi, India) on 15-17 Feb 2019. The conference was the opportunity to release White Papers for each Indian scheduled languages. On this occasion, Georg Rehm (DFKI) gave an Invited Talk on the META-NET White Papers series, which can be obtained at: https://www.slideshare.net/georgrehm/the-preparation-impact-and-future-of-t… *Calls for Papers* - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK - The 4th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2019), August 1, 2019 in Florence, Italy. The workshop is collocated with ACL 2019. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic dialect identification: MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification Workshop Paper Due Date: April 26, 2019 - Call for Abstracts, Papers & Participants - Also within LTC 2019, a Workshop on “Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry” (TALC 2019) - Workshop on Data for the wellbeing of most vulnerable https://sites.google.com/site/dataforvulnerable19/ June 11, 2019 in Munich, Germany * Submissions due: March 25 * *Call for participation* - The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150 participants already, flying in from all over the world, this edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the schedules and all other information on https://icml.eu/. The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in minority and less-resourced languages! *Upcoming events* - The Endangered Languages Project is partnering with the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC) to offer a FREE webinar series on language documentation, running from January 26 through March 16! Sign up using this form, and join the Facebook group to participate. - The 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC6) will take place at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from February 28-March 3, 2019. This year’s theme is “Connecting Communities, Languages and Technology”. More than 500 attendees from around the world will come together to share their work documenting and revitalizing languages, especially through the use of technology. All materials and talks will be made available through the ICLDC website. *Miscellaneous* - What International Mother Language Day Means for Indian Languages While India's major languages have transitioned well to the digital realm, smaller local languages still have a long way to go. Read more at: https://thewire.in/tech/what-international-mother-language-day-means-for-in… - How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture. Read more at: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/d3zpjx/how-indigenous-millennials-ar… -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #2
by Claudia Soria 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the second issue of the SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues broadly related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair ****************** *Calls for Papers* - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK - VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate discussion on computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together with the VarDial workshop, the third edition of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks is being organized: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign - IYIL2019 Global Call for Research Papers, deadline extended to 15 March 2019: https://en.iyil2019.org/newsletter/deadline-extended-iyil2019-global-call-f… * * **Call for participation** - The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150 participants already, flying in from all over the world, this edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the schedules and all other information on https://icml.eu/. The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in minority and less-resourced languages! **Software development** Are you interested in beta-testing LangSaver, a new iOS workflow for recording and organizing language materials? Mitch Nesbitt is looking for language workers and linguists to try it out and give feedback. Check out the GitHub page at https://github.com/mtchnsbtt/langsave ! **Funding opportunities** - Google grants Wikimedia 3.1 M$ for addressing minority languages. See also : https://www.socialbeat.in/blog/kpmg-google-study-on-regional-content/ **Useful resources** - Endangered Alphabets Atlas: https://www.endangeredalphabets.net **Miscellaneous** - Planet Word, the museum where language comes to life. The museum plans to open in Washington D.C., in late 2019. Visitors will engage in activities that make words and language exciting with delightful programming and playful, interactive exhibits. https://www.planetwordmuseum.org/welcome - Can you identify the world's languages from an audio clip? NameThatLanguage is a game that tests your skill at recognizing spoken languages. See how many points you can score while assisting language research. https://namethatlanguage.org - On January 28, Joseph Mariani, Honorary President of ELRA, gave an overview of Language Technologies available to support the digital use of #IndigenousLanguages and their preservation. He also introduced LT4All a conference which could tackle those issue in the framework of UNESCO International Year Of Indigenous Languages, https://en.iyil2019.org/official-global-launch-event-of-the-2019-internatio… - LREC2020: the twelfth edition of LREC will take place in Marseille (France) on May 11-16, 2020 (http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/). Updates on Twitter account @LREC2020 -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Call for Papers: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

LRL 2019, Poznan, co-located with LTC The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference CONFERENCE CHAIRS Dorothee Beermann (Norway), Laurent Besacier (France) and Claudia Soria (Italy) *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* WORKSHOP TOPICS We invite original papers that address the particular needs and requirements of less-resourced languages. We in particular welcome papers on the computational processing of less resourced languages addressing the following topics. We also welcome papers on language revitalisation and literary development. Induction of multilingual resources for LRL Morphological Paradigm Learning for LRL Corpus building for LRL Dialect processing for LRL Spoken language processing for LRL Code Switching in LRL Deep Learning for LRL Computer-aided work with LRL Information retrieval on Social Networks for LRL Linguistic Resources for LRL Spell-check and automatic corrections for LRL Descriptive Studies on LRL Community approaches to revitalisation and literary development IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES * Deadline for submission of papers for review: 20 March 2019 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: 2 April 2019 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: 15 April 2019 * Workshop: 19 May 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by March 20, 2019 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the authorship in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=83901713.4PPnVqMiHylJDYBz Important Notice: Make sure to include the keyword ‘’LRLWorkshop’’among the paper’s keywords. A copy of the submitted paper must also be sent to claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it, indicating ‘’RL19 Workshop submission’’as the subject of the mail. PUBLICATION POLICY Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by Polish Ministry of Higher Education. FEES and REGISTRATION LRL is an integral part of the LTC. Fees and payment procedures are the same for general LTC and workshop participants, and they cover participation in the general LTC program. Notice: the workshop is free for participants registered to the general LTC. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (general LTC or workshops) (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. OTHER Please note that remaining important information on the workshop and the general conference is or will be provided at the workshop web site http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/submissions.htm (under preparation) and at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. CONTACT Claudia Soria claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Call for Papers: Information Special Issue “Computational Linguistics for Low-Resource Languages”
by Claudia Soria 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Special Issue "Computational Linguistics for Low-Resource Languages" A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/Low-Resource_Langua… -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #1
by Claudia Soria 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Dear SIGUL Members, with this message we wish to inaugurate a bi-weekly newsletter that will report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria ****************** *Reports* - Please find enclosed the Technology and Welsh Language Conference Report 2019, Friday, 25th January, 2019 *Calls for Papers* - The PULiiMA 2019 – Indigenous Languages & Technology Conference, scheduled to take place in Darwin, Australia on August 19-22, 2019 has launched its open call for presenters. The submission deadline is February 9, 2019. - In the framework of the campaign for 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO announced a call for research papers, with one of the key topic areas being “Technology, digital activism, and artificial intelligence (e.g. language technology).” The call is available at the link below: https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-int… Deadline 1 March 2019 *Publications* - Digiglot Newsletter https://globalvoices.org/2019/01/31/digiglot-newsletter-welsh-language-rock… The DigiGlot Newsletter is a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter that reports on how indigenous, minority, and endangered language communities are adopting and adapting technology to increase the digital presence of their languages, and in the process changing the internet landscape by increasing linguistic diversity online. Subscribe at https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad… - The special issue of the TAL journal on under-resourced languages has just been published online: http://atala.org/content/traitement-automatique-des-langues-peu-dot%C3%A9es -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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UNESCO's Call for Research Papers in the framework of IYIL 2019
by Claudia Soria 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Dear SIG-UL members, I'd like to bring to your attention that in the framework of the campaign for 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO announced a call for research papers <https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-int…>, with one of the key topic areas being “Technology, digital activism, and artificial intelligence (e.g. language technology).” The call is available at the link below: https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-int… Deadline 1 March 2019 Claudia -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Fwd: [ln] Call: Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Laurent Besacier 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

> > > > Call for Papers > VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and > Dialects > > VarDial 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 > > Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate > discussion on computational methods and on language resources for > closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together > with the VarDial workshop we are organizing the third edition of the > VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks: > https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign > > Topics > > We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: > > - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and > dialects; > - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, > varieties and dialects; > - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language > varieties; > - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for > machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); > - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; > - Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility > between dialects and similar languages; > - Automatic identification of lexical variation; > - Automatic classification of language varieties; > - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; > - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools > (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); > - Machine translation between closely related languages, language > varieties and dialects. > > In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing > with diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods, > historical dialects). > > Instruction for Authors > > Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL template and > submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. > > Important Dates > > Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 > Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2019 > Camera-ready papers due: April 5, 2019 > VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2019: June 7, 2019 > > Program Committee > > Željko Agić (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) > Cesar Aguilar (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile) > Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina) > Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal) > Eckhard Bick (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) > Johannes Bjerva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) > Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) > Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States) > David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, United States) > Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick, Canada) > Marta Costa-Jussà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) > Jon Dehdari (Think Big Analytics, United States) > Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest, Romania) > Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) > Sascha Diwersy (University of Montpellier, France) > Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia) > Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) > Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) > Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Phillips Research, The Netherlands) > Cyril Goutte (National Research Council, Canada) > Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) > Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) > Radu Ionescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) > Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria) > Tommi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) > Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) > John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Freiburg, Germany) > Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar) > Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) > Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) > Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany) > Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) > Francisco Rangel (Autoritas Consulting, Spain) > Taraka Rama (University of Oslo, Norway) > Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France) > Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) > Fatiha Sadat (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada) > Tanja Samardžić (University of Zurich, Switzerland) > Felipe Sánchez Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain) > Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, United States) > Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki, Finland) > Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) > Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) > Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) > Marco Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) > Liling Tan (Rakuten Institute of Technology, Singapore) > Joel Tetreault (Grammarly, United States) > Francis Tyers (Indiana University, United States) > Taro Watanabe (Google Inc., Japan) > Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc., United States) > > Organizers > > Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) > Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) > Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, United States) > Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb, Croatia) > Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland) > Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) > > Contact: vardialworkshop(at)gmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel <LN(a)cines.fr> > Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/liste_ln > Archives : https://liste.cines.fr/arc/ln/ > > Désabonnement : envoyer le message "unsubscribe LN" a sympa(a)cines.fr > > La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement > Automatique des Langues) > Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ > > ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des > messages diffusés sur la liste LN > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------

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Fwd: [SIGUL-Board] Fwd: Official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
by Laurent Besacier 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

FYI best L > -------- Message transféré -------- > Sujet : Official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages > Date : Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:07:50 +0100 > De : ELRA ELDA Information <info(a)elda.org> <mailto:info@elda.org> > > [Apologies for cross-postings] > > Held under the theme “Indigenous languages matter for sustainable development, peace building and reconciliation”, this official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages is taking place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on January 28, 2019. > > More information on the official launch event: https://en.unesco.org/events/official-launch-event-2019-international-year-… <https://en.unesco.org/events/official-launch-event-2019-international-year-…> > More on IYIL2019: https://en.iyil2019.org/ <https://en.iyil2019.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > SIGUL-Board mailing list > SIGUL-Board(a)list.elra.info > http://list.elra.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sigul-board ------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------

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Announcing the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019
by Laurent Besacier 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Dear All, Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019 is open (deadline 15.3.2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 <http://www.zerospeech.com/2019>. Aim is to build a speech synthesizer without text or phonetic labels (TTS without T). Inspiration is taken from infants who learn to talk before they read or write. See more details below. Best Laurent > Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Emmanuel Dupoux <emmanuel.dupoux(a)gmail.com <mailto:emmanuel.dupoux@gmail.com>> > Objet: Announcing the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019! > Date: 15 décembre 2018 16:05:27 UTC+1 > À: zerospeech2019(a)gmail.com <mailto:zerospeech2019@gmail.com> > Cc: Juan Manuel Benjumea <jubenjum(a)gmail.com <mailto:jubenjum@gmail.com>>, Ewan Dunbar <ewan.dunbar(a)gmail.com <mailto:ewan.dunbar@gmail.com>>, Sakriani Sakti <ssakti(a)is.naist.jp <mailto:ssakti@is.naist.jp>>, lucas ondel <lucas.ondel(a)gmail.com <mailto:lucas.ondel@gmail.com>>, Mathieu Bernard <mmathieubernardd(a)gmail.com <mailto:mmathieubernardd@gmail.com>>, julien karadayi <julien.karadayi(a)gmail.com <mailto:julien.karadayi@gmail.com>>, Robin Algayres <rb.algayres(a)orange.fr <mailto:rb.algayres@orange.fr>>, Xuan Nga Cao <ngafrance(a)gmail.com <mailto:ngafrance@gmail.com>>, Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:laurent.besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>> > > Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T > > Dear Colleague, > > We have the pleasure to announce the new iteration of the Zero Ressource Speech Challenge, which is submitted to Interspeech 2019. Its aim is to build a speech synthesizer without any text or phonetic labels (hence Text to Speech without T). We takes inspiration from young infants who learn to talk before they learn to read or write. Here, the task is to discover a pseudo-text (a sub-word symbolic representation internal to the machine), from raw speech, without any labels, and to use these discovered units to resynthesize new utterances in a target voice. > > The Challenge is now open (deadline March 15, 2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 <http://www.zerospeech.com/2019>. > > The organizers > Dunbar, E., Algayres, R., Benjumea, J., Karadayi, J., Cao, X-N., Bernard, M., Ondel, L., Besacier, L., Sakti, S., & Dupoux, E. > > Note: The Challenge is a continuation of the 'sub-word unit discovery' task of previous ZeroSpeech challenges, and is open to everyone (including participants concentrating solely on sub-word unit discovery or solely on synthesis, as well as participants building complete end-to-end systems). > > -- > **************************************** > Emmanuel Dupoux > Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales > Research Scientist Facebook AI Research > www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux <http://www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux> > > Equipe Cognitive Machine Learning > EHESS - ENS - CNRS - INRIA > 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France > www.syntheticlearner.net <http://www.syntheticlearner.net/> ------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr <mailto:laurent.besacier@imag.fr> Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------

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