Connectionists: 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019)

[Albert Ali Salah]

== apologies for cross posting ==

CfP 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer
(SPECOM-2019), Istanbul, Turkey

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SPECOM-2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019)
Venue: Istanbul, Turkey, August 20-25, 2019
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru


ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Bogazici University (BU, Istanbul,
Turkey) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics
and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St.
Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU,
Moscow, Russia).


SPECOM-2019 CO-CHAIRS
Albert Ali Salah - Bogazici University, Turkey / Utrecht University,
the Netherlands
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia


INVITED SPEAKERS
Hynek Hermansky - Johns Hopkins University, USA - 'If You Can’t Beat
Them, Join Them'
Odette Scharenborg - Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands -
'The representation of speech in the human and artificial brain'
Vanessa Evers - University of Twente, the Netherlands - 'Socially
intelligent robotics'


CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM conference is dedicated to issues of speech technology,
human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing,
particularly:

Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Computational paralinguistics
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Deep learning for sound and speech processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech dereverberation
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality


SATELLITE EVENT
4th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics
ICR-2019: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2019

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on
processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages
formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either
orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be
based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The
authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission
system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2019

Papers submitted to SPECOM-2019 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not
be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in
all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP,
etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming
proceedings for August 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2019 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15, 2019 ............ Notification of acceptance
June 01, 2019 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration
Aug. 20-25, 2019 ......... Conference dates (including social programs)

VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Bogazici University,
South campus, Albert Long Hall.

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2019 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom at iias.spb.su; salah at boun.edu.tr

SPECOM-2019 web-site: http://www.specom.nw.ru

-- 
Dr. Albert Ali Salah
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/
Utrecht University
Dept. Information and Computing Sciences;
Bogazici University,
Computer Engineering Dept.
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