Connectionists: Interspeech 2025: Call for Challenge Proposals

[Grzegorz Chrupała]

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Interspeech 2025
17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
https://www.interspeech2025.org/
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Call for Challenge Proposals
https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-challenges
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Important Dates
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Proposals of challenges due: 21 October 2024
Notification of pre-selection for challenges: 31 October 2024
Challenge paper deadline (same as regular papers) : 12 February 2025
Final list of challenges: 14 May 2025

Submissions for challenge proposals are invited for Interspeech2025
https://interspeech2025.org/.

Challenge proposals should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or
important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions
related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and
Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome.
Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference
regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Note
that the deadline for challenge proposal submission is earlier than
regular special sessions, namely on October 21 2024. This is to give
the challenge organizers time to disseminate the call and give
participants enough time to participate and submit their papers before
the regular paper deadline.

A Challenge proposal must contain the following information:
* Challenge title
* Challenge organizers (including contact information and a brief
biography for each organizer)
* Brief introduction of the challenge
* Significance of the challenge
* Rules for participation
* Criteria for judging the submissions to the competition
* Data sets to be used and, if applicable, planned baseline systems
* Relevant dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and
winner announcement)

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in
consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and
significance to the conference.

Papers for approved Challenges must be submitted according to the same
schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo
the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers.
Challenge organizers may suggest reviewers.

Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges can run for a
maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal
ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech
Satellite Workshop instead.

Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special
Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the
Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at
specialsessions at interspeech2025.org.