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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We have updated the 'key dates' on the ADReSS website following the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">announcement by the INTERSPEECH organisers that the conference will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">postponed to 26-29 Oct due to COV-19 concerns. The paper submission and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">notification dates have also been pushed back to May 8th and July 14th<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">For further details please see <a href="https://edin.ac/375QRNI" target="_blank" title="https://edin.ac/375QRNI">https://edin.ac/375QRNI</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Call for Participation:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: The ADReSS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Challenge at INTERSPEECH <a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020 (</span></a>Sep <a href="tel:+441518"><span style="color:#0078D7">15-18</span></a>, Shanghai, China)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning. While</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>, in the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Challenge's special session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">The relevant dates are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* January 24, <a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>: ADReSS training data available</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* March 15, <a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>: ADReSS test data made available</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* March 17, <a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>: Period for submission of results opens</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* March 30, </span></s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>: May 8: INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a> paper
submission deadline</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* June 19, </span></s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>: July 14: Paper acceptance/rejection notification</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* September <a href="tel:+441518,2020"><span style="color:#0078D7">15-18, 2020</span></a></span></s><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> October 26-29: INTERSPEECH'<a href="tel:+442020"><span style="color:#0078D7">2020</span></a>,
in Shanghai, China.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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