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Dear Colleagues, the
Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) has opened the Native Language Sub-Challenge. Please find details at: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is16-compare With best wishes Björn Schuller On behalf of the organisers
The Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Challenge dealing with states and traits
of speakers as manifested in their speech signal’s acoustic properties. There have so far been seven consecutive Challenges at INTERSPEECH since 2009 (cf. the Challenge series‘ repository at
http://www.compare.openaudio.eu),
but there still exists a multiplicity of not yet covered, but highly relevant paralinguistic phenomena. Thus, we introduce three new
tasks in this year’s edition. The
following Sub-Challenges are addressed:
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In the Deception
Sub-Challenge, deceptive speech has to be identified.
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In the Sincerity
Sub-Challenge, perceived sincerity of speakers has to be determined for the first time.
•
In the Native
Language Sub-Challenge, the native language of non-native English speakers from eleven countries has to be recognised. All Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. However, a standard
feature set will be provided that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the definition of training, development, and test sets as given. They may report results obtained on the development sets, but have only five trials to upload their results on
the test sets depending on the Sub-Challenges, whose labels are unknown to them. Each participation has to be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes the normal Interspeech peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in order
to participate in the Challenge. The organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will not participate themselves in the Challenge.
In these respects, the
INTERSPEECH 2016
Computational Paralinguistics challengE (ComParE)
shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on paralinguistic information in spoken language and low compatibility of results. We encourage both – contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. the baselines provided by the organisers,
and contributions aiming at finding new and interesting insights w.r.t. these data. Overall, contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to):
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Participation in a Sub-Challenge
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Contributions focussing on Computational Paralinguistics centred around the Challenge topics The results of the Challenge will be presented at
Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco, U.S.A.
Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to participate in INTERSPEECH 2016
ComParE, or if you want to be kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail (bjoern.schuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to indicate your interest
and visit the homepage:
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is16-compare ___________________________________________ Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Björn W. Schuller Head (Full Professor) Chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems University of Passau Passau / Germany Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Computing Imperial College London London / U.K. CEO audEERING UG
Gilching / Germany Visiting Professor School of Computer Science and Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin / P.R. China Associate Institute for Information and Communication Technologies
Joanneum Research
Graz / Austria Associate Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives
Université de Genève
Geneva / Switzerland Editor in Chief
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