ICSLP 98 Call For Papers


INTRODUCTION

The ICSLP '98 conference will continue the eight year tradition of the ICSLP series in bringing together professionals from all the diverse disciplines that contribute to Spoken Language Processing. It will be the premier international display of the state-of-the-art in this broad field in 1998. The conference will build bridges between people and sub-disciplines in order to create and nurture synergies that are important for the future of the field.

Keynote presentations and other plenary events which bring both experience and vision of multi-disciplinary attacks on grand challenges in spoken language processing in both humans and machines will contribute to our aims. A student day at which full-time student registrants may present their ideas under the guidance of senior mentors is also planned. However, it is the quality of the delegate presentations which will be the major factor in making ICSLP '98 a truly landmark event. This call for papers offers to you the opportunity to be a part of this significant event.

CO-SPONSORING SOCIETIES

Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical Society of China

Acoustical Society of Japan

Acoustical Society of Korea

Association for Computational Linguistics

Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

Audiological Society of Australia Inc.

Australian Linguistic Society

European Speech Communication Association

IEEE Signal Processing Society

International Phonetic Association

International Society for Phonetic Sciences

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Souguil J.M. Ann, Seoul National University, Korea

Jens P. Blauert, Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany

Michael Brooke, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware, USA

Anne Cutler, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan

Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

Bjorn Granstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Roger Moore, Defence Research Authority, United Kingdom

John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Louis C.W. Pols, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Christel Sorin, Centre Nationale d'Etude des Telecommunications, France

Yoh'ichi Tohkura, ATR, Japan

Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers

GPO Box 128

SYDNEY NSW 2000

AUSTRALIA

Tel: +61 2 9262 2277

Fax: +61 2 9262 3135

Email: icslp98@tourhosts.com.au

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions are invited in any of the following technical topic areas:

  1. Human Speech Production, Acoustic-Phonetics and Articulatory Models
  2. Human Speech Perception
  3. Language Acquisition: First and Second Languages
  4. Spoken Language and Dialogue Modelling; Dialogue Systems
  5. Isolated Word Recognition
  6. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
  7. Utterance Verification and Word Spotting
  8. Speaker Adaptation and Normalisation in Speech Recognition
  9. Speaker and Language Recognition; Dialects and Speaking Styles
  10. Multilingual Perception and Recognition
  11. Signal Processing, Speech Analysis and Feature Extraction
  12. Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments
  13. Hidden Markov Model Techniques
  14. Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Algorithms
  15. Spoken Language Understanding Systems
  16. Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  17. Prosody and Emotion; Focus, Stress and Accent
  18. Speech Coding
  19. Spoken Language Generation Systems; Concept-to-Speech
  20. Spoken Language Translation Systems
  21. Analysis of Speech and Hearing Disorders
  22. Speech Processing for the Speech-impaired and Hearing-impaired
  23. Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora
  24. Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interfaces
  25. Spoken Language Processing and Multimodality
  26. Other Areas of Spoken Language Processing

FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference will be on the basis of reviewed summaries. You should submit a summary of your paper comprising approximately 500 words. At the top of the page, please specify the following:

Corresponding Author contact details:

Proposed Paper details:

The Topic ID should be a single category from the topic list specified as an alphabetic letter; if your submission falls within the broad area of spoken language processing but is not explicitly represented in the topic list, please use the Z category. The four additional keywords are requested in order to assist the programme committee in assigning reviewers.

MEANS OF SUBMISSION

Electronic submission of summaries via the World Wide Web is preferred. A Summary Submission Form is available via URL = http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98 . Alternatively, a pro-forma for email submission can be obtained from this URL or by emailing icslp98@tourhosts.com.au . Email submissions should be sent to icslp98@one.net.au . If electronic submission is not possible, postal submissions (4 copies) to the ICSLP '98 Secretariat address specified below will be accepted provided that they adhere to the above format. Please do NOT fax submissions.

RESTRICTIONS ON SUBMISSIONS

Please note that only ASCII summaries written in English will be accepted. Do not include any attachments, graphics, or embedded formatting commands.

Given the large number of submissions we expect to receive, anything that cannot be printed directly will be rejected without consideration.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT

You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt within 72 hours of electronically submitting your summary. If this does not happen, then you should resend your submission by email to icslp98@one.net.au   with the word RESUBMISSION at the beginning of the subject line. If an acknowledgement is still not forthcoming, an email problem should be assumed, and the summary submitted by fax. Please do not resubmit or send by fax for any other reasons than lack of acknowledgement from the conference.

CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE

All papers must be presented in English by one of the listed authors. That author will be required to register no later than the full-paper submission date.

Summaries will not be accepted after the submission date.

STUDENT DAY SUBMISSIONS

Students wishing to submit papers for the SST Student Day should submit summaries as above. These submissions will be separately reviewed and published under the banner of the 7th Australian Speech Science & Technology Conference and will also be included on the CDROM containing the ICSLP '98 proceedings.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES

World Wide Web: URL = http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98  

E-mail Submission: icslp98@one.net.au  

Postal: ICSLP '98 Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia

Queries about technical content of summaries can be sent to icslptpc@mpce.mq.edu.au.

Queries about administrative aspects of the submissions procedure should be sent to icslp98@tourhosts.com.au.

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 1st May, 1998 Paper summaries due for review

Friday 26th June, 1998 Acceptance notification

Friday 21st August, 1998 Deadline for full-paper submission