Subject: [AUDITORY] Announcement - 2nd edition of the 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' - Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) From: Helmer <w.strik@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:11:37 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1137E03A14FC7903F615961A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by edgeum1.it.mcgill.ca id vBEGBWnE020329 Dear colleagues, Recently, we organized the first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task'=20 [https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask/]. Results were presented at a special session of the SLaTE-2017 workshop=20 [http://www.slate2017.org/]. The first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' was successful, people expressed=20 interest in a follow-up, and that is why we are now organizing a 2nd=20 edition of the 'Spoken CALL Shared Task'=20 [http://tiny.cc/2nd-spoken-CALL-task ~=20 https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/]. The second=20 version of the task will offer improved resources. In particular, it=20 will make available the highest-performing speech recognizer from the=20 first version of the task, and about twice as much training data. The preliminary schedule of the 2nd 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' is as follo= ws: =E2=80=A2 27 Oct 2017, Training data and resources released =E2=80=A2 31 Jan 2018, Release test data =E2=80=A2 7 Feb 2018, Deadline for submission of entries =E2=80=A2 23 Mar 2018, Interspeech submission deadline =E2=80=A2 2-6 Sep 2018, Presentations at a special session of Interspeech= -2018 If you are interested (even if you are not sure that you will [be able=20 to] participate), Subscribe to the Newsletter at=20 https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/, and/or send an email to Johanna.Gerlach@xxxxxxxx There are no=20 obligations at all, this is just to have an initial idea about who is=20 interested. Feel free to forward this announcement. If you have suggestions about=20 where we can send this announcement, please let us know. Regards, The 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' team See also: http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/2nd-spoken-call-shared-task/ =2E --------------1137E03A14FC7903F615961A Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by edgeum1.it.mcgill.ca id vBEGBWnE020329 <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf= -8"> </head> <body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> <font face=3D"Calibri">Dear colleagues,<br> <br> Recently, we organized the first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' [<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://regulus.unige.c= h/spokencallsharedtask/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask/</= a>].<br> Results were presented at a special session of the SLaTE-2017 workshop [<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"http://www.sla= te2017.org/">http://www.slate2017.org/</a>].<br> <br> The first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' was successful, people expressed interest in a follow-up, and that is why we are now organizing a 2nd edition of the 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' [<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"http://tiny.cc/2nd-spok= en-CALL-task">http://tiny.cc/2nd-spoken-CALL-task</a> ~ <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://regulus.unige.ch= /spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsha= redtask_2ndedition/</a>]. The second version of the task will offer improved resources. In particular, it will make available the highest-performing speech recognizer from the first version of the task, and about twice as much training data.<br> <br> The preliminary schedule of the 2nd 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' is as follows:<br> =E2=80=A2 27 Oct 2017, Training data and resources released<br> =E2=80=A2 31 Jan 2018, Release test data<br> =E2=80=A2 7 Feb 2018, Deadline for submission of entries<br> =E2=80=A2 23 Mar 2018, Interspeech submission deadline<br> =E2=80=A2 2-6 Sep 2018, Presentations at a special session of Interspeech-2018<br> <br> If you are interested (even if you are not sure that you will [be able to] participate), Subscribe to the Newsletter at <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://regulus.unige.ch= /spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsha= redtask_2ndedition/</a>,<br> and/or send an email to <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href=3D= "mailto:Johanna.Gerlach@xxxxxxxx">Johanna.Gerlach@xxxxxxxx</a>. There are= no obligations at all, this is just to have an initial idea about who is interested.<br> <br> Feel free to forward this announcement. If you have suggestions about where we can send this announcement, please let us know.<br> <br> Regards,<br> The 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' team<br> <br> See also: <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"http://hstrik.= ruhosting.nl/2nd-spoken-call-shared-task/">http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/2nd= -spoken-call-shared-task/</a><br> .</font> </body> </html> --------------1137E03A14FC7903F615961A--