Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] CFP: Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Separation, Recognition, and Diarization of Conversational Speech From: Michael Mandel <mim@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:05:55 -0500--0000000000007573ae05b61e5a3e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear all, Due to a number of requests, we will be extending the deadline for the special issue of Computer Speech and Language on Separation, Recognition, and Diarization of Conversational Speech to *** *January 15th, 2021 ****. Note that unfortunately no additional extensions can be given after this date, so this will be the final deadline. Sincerely, the guest editors. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:14 AM Michael Mandel <mim@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > Submissions are now open for the special issue of Computer Speech and > Language on Separation, Recognition, and Diarization of Conversational > Speech. Please see the below CfP. > > Sincerely, > the guest editors > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:16 PM Michael Mandel <mim@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> *Call for papers* >> >> Computer Speech and Language >> https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language >> >> Special Issue on Separation, Recognition, and Diarization of >> Conversational Speech >> >> https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-= papers/call-for-papers-computer-speech-and-language-special-issue >> >> *Submission deadline: December 15, 2020* >> >> >> While great advances have been made in conversational automatic speech >> recognition in recent years, several fundamental problems remain before = the >> goal of a richly annotated transcript of speech and speakers can be >> realized. The current special issue invites papers to discuss the >> robustness of speech processing in everyday environments, i.e., real-wor= ld >> conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and nature of the sou= nd >> sources is unknown and changing over time. >> >> Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to): >> >> - Speaker identification and diarization >> - Speaker localization and beamforming >> - Single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation >> - Robust features and feature transforms >> - Robust acoustic and language modeling >> - Traditional or end-to-end robust speech recognition >> - Training schemes: data simulation and augmentation, semi-supervised >> training >> - Robust speaker and language recognition >> - Robust paralinguistics >> - Cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis >> - Environmental background noise modelling. >> >> In addition to traditional research papers, the special issue also hopes >> to include descriptions of successful conversational speech recognition >> systems where the contribution is more in the implementation than the >> techniques themselves as well as successful applications of conversation= al >> speech recognition systems. >> >> The recently concluded sixth CHiME challenge serves as a focus for >> discussion in this special issue. The challenge considered the problem o= f >> conversational speech recognition and diarization in everyday home >> environments from multiple distant microphone arrays. It used a >> resychronized version of the Dinner Party speech data featured in CHiME-= 5 >> and added a new joint diarization and ASR task. Papers reporting evaluat= ion >> results on the CHiME-6 dataset or on other datasets are equally welcome. >> >> >> >> *Submission instructions* >> Manuscript submissions shall be made through: >> https://www.editorialmanager.com/YCSLA/. >> >> The submission system will be open in November. When submitting your >> manuscript please select the article type =E2=80=9CVSI:SeparateRecognize= Diarize=E2=80=9D. >> Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. >> >> All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be >> reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is >> accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously publish= ed >> in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. >> Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues= of >> the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special >> Issue articles. Please see an example here: >> https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment/s= pecial-issue/10SWS2W7VVV >> >> Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your >> manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript= is >> available on the Journal=E2=80=99s homepage https://www.elsevier.com/loc= ate/csl. >> >> >> Important dates: >> >> - Submission opens: November 16, 2020 >> - Submission deadline: December 15, 2020 >> - Acceptance deadline: September 1, 2021 >> - Expected publication date: November 1, 2021 >> >> >> Guest editors >> >> - Michael Mandel, Brooklyn College, CUNY >> - Jon Barker, University of Sheffield >> - Jun Du, University of Science and Technology of China >> - Leibny Paola Garcia, Johns Hopkins University >> - Emmanuel Vincent, Inria >> - Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael I Mandel >> Associate Professor >> Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College >> Computer Science PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center >> Linguistics PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center >> >> http://mr-pc.org >> 2232 Ingersoll Hall >> 718-951-5000 x2053 (Office) >> 347-881-6165 (Cell) >> > --0000000000007573ae05b61e5a3e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Due to a number of requests, = we will be extending the deadline for the special issue of Computer Speech = and Language on=C2=A0Separation, Recognition, and Diarization of Conversati= onal Speech to ***=C2=A0<b>January 15th, 2021 ***</b>.=C2=A0 Note that unfo= rtunately no additional extensions can be given after this date, so this wi= ll be the final deadline.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>the= guest editors.</div><div></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div d= ir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:14 AM Michael Ma= ndel <<a href=3D"mailto:mim@xxxxxxxx">mim@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:<br><= /div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bo= rder-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><di= v>Dear all,</div><div><br></div>Submissions=C2=A0are now open for the speci= al issue of Computer Speech and Language on Separation, Recognition, and Di= arization of Conversational Speech. Please see the below CfP.<div><br></div= ><div>Sincerely,</div><div>the guest editors</div><div></div></div><br><div= class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 21= , 2020 at 10:16 PM Michael Mandel <<a href=3D"mailto:mim@xxxxxxxx" targ= et=3D"_blank">mim@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gm= ail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,= 204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b>Call for papers</b></di= v><div><br></div><div>Computer Speech and Language<br></div><div><a href=3D= "https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language" target=3D"= _blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language</a><= br></div><div><br></div><div>Special Issue on Separation, Recognition, and = Diarization of Conversational Speech</div><a href=3D"https://www.journals.e= lsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-co= mputer-speech-and-language-special-issue" target=3D"_blank">https://www.jou= rnals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/call-for-pa= pers-computer-speech-and-language-special-issue</a><div><br></div><div><b>S= ubmission deadline: December 15, 2020</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></di= v><div>While great advances have been made in conversational automatic spee= ch recognition in recent years, several fundamental problems remain before = the goal of a richly annotated transcript of speech and speakers can be rea= lized. The current special issue invites papers to discuss the robustness o= f speech processing in everyday environments, i.e., real-world conditions w= ith acoustic clutter, where the number and nature of the sound sources is u= nknown and changing over time.</div><div><br></div><div>Relevant research t= opics include (but are not limited to):<ul><li>Speaker identification and d= iarization</li><li>Speaker localization and beamforming</li><li>Single- or = multi-microphone enhancement and separation</li><li>Robust features and fea= ture transforms</li><li>Robust acoustic and language modeling</li><li>Tradi= tional or end-to-end robust speech recognition</li><li>Training schemes: da= ta simulation and augmentation, semi-supervised training</li><li>Robust spe= aker and language recognition</li><li>Robust paralinguistics</li><li>Cross-= environment or cross-dataset performance analysis</li><li>Environmental bac= kground noise modelling.</li></ul>In addition to traditional research paper= s, the special issue also hopes to include descriptions of successful conve= rsational speech recognition systems where the contribution is more in the = implementation than the techniques themselves as well as successful applica= tions of conversational speech recognition systems.<br><br>The recently con= cluded sixth CHiME challenge serves as a focus for discussion in this speci= al issue. The challenge considered the problem of conversational speech rec= ognition and diarization in everyday home environments from multiple distan= t microphone arrays. It used a resychronized version of the Dinner Party sp= eech data featured in CHiME-5 and added a new joint diarization and ASR tas= k. Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-6 dataset or on other d= atasets are equally welcome.<br><br><br><b>Submission instructions<br></b><= br>Manuscript submissions shall be made through: <a href=3D"https://www.edi= torialmanager.com/YCSLA/" target=3D"_blank">https://www.editorialmanager.co= m/YCSLA/</a>.<br><br>The submission system will be open in November. When s= ubmitting your manuscript please select the article type =E2=80=9CVSI:Separ= ateRecognizeDiarize=E2=80=9D. Please submit your manuscript before the subm= ission deadline.<br><br>All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer= review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your m= anuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneous= ly published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Specia= l Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular = issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Sp= ecial Issue articles. Please see an example here: <a href=3D"https://www.sc= iencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment/special-issue/10SW= S2W7VVV" target=3D"_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of= -the-total-environment/special-issue/10SWS2W7VVV</a><br><br>Please ensure y= ou read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for= Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal= =E2=80=99s homepage <a href=3D"https://www.elsevier.com/locate/csl" target= =3D"_blank">https://www.elsevier.com/locate/csl</a>.<br><br><br>Important d= ates:<br><ul><li>Submission opens: November 16, 2020</li><li>Submission dea= dline: December 15, 2020</li><li>Acceptance deadline: September 1, 2021</li= ><li>Expected publication date: November 1, 2021</li></ul><br>Guest editors= <br><ul><li>Michael Mandel, Brooklyn College, CUNY</li><li>Jon Barker, Univ= ersity of Sheffield</li><li>Jun Du, University of Science and Technology of= China</li><li>Leibny Paola Garcia, Johns Hopkins University</li><li>Emmanu= el Vincent, Inria</li><li>Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University</li></u= l><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"lt= r"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Michael I Mandel</div><= div>Associate Professor</div><div>Department of Computer and Information Sc= ience, Brooklyn College</div><div><div>Computer Science PhD Program, CUNY G= raduate Center</div><div><div>Linguistics PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center= </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><a href=3D"http://mr-pc.org" target= =3D"_blank">http://mr-pc.org</a></div>2232 Ingersoll Hall<br>718-951-5000 x= 2053 (Office)<br>347-881-6165 (Cell)</div></div></div></div></div></div></d= iv></div></div> </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div> --0000000000007573ae05b61e5a3e--