[iva] SPECOM 2018 1st Call for Papers

[Ingo Siegert]

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                SPECOM 2018 – CALL FOR PAPERS
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20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
Web: whttp://www.specom2018.org/
 
THE CONFERENCE
The International Conference on Speech and Computer - SPECOM is a regular 
event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer 
speech processing, multimodal 
interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent 
and cyber-physical environments.
 
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, 
Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics 
and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, 
Russia), Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia) and ITMO 
University (St. Petersburg, Russia)
 
TOPICS
SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, 
particularly:
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
orensic 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
The 3rd International Conference on interactive collaborative robotics (ICR 
2018) is a satellite event of SPECOM-2018. 
It attracts researchers in the area of human-robot interaction, social 
robotics and collaborative robotics. 
ICR-2018 Workshop will be organized in Leipzig, Germany September 18-22, 2018:  
http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018 
 
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of SPECOM-2018 is English. However, papers on processing 
of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
 

GENERAL CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia


LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany (Local 
Chair)
Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany (Special Session 
Chair)
Tilo Strutz, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany (Technical 
Chair)
Michael Maruschke, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany 
(Technical Co-Chair)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Shyam Agrawal, KIIT College of Engineering, India
Tanel Alumae, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Ebru Arisoy, MEF University, Turkey
Elias Azarov, BSUIR, Belarus
Mohamad Hasan Bahari, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerard Bailly, CNRSGIPSA-Lab Grenoble, France
Andrey Barabanov, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Anton Batliner, University of Passau, Germany
Marie-Luce Bourguet, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Eric Castelli, International Research Center MICA, Vietnam
Vladimiir Chuchupal, Computing Center of RAS, Russia
Dirk van Compernolle, KU Leuven, Belgium
Marelie Davel, North-West University, South Africa
Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Olivier Deroo, Acapela Group, Belgium
Christoph Draxler, LMU Munchen, Germany
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA
Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France
Vera Evdokimova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Vasiliki Foufi, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Peter French, University of York, UK
Todor Ganchev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Philip Garner, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Theodoros Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Gabor Gosztolya, University of Szeged, Hungary
Abualsoud Hanani, Birzeit University, Palestine
John Hansen, University of Texas, USA
Charl van Heerden, North-West University, South Africa
Ivan Himawan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Ruediger Hoffmann, TU Dresden, Germany
Marek Hruz, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Alexei Ivanov, Educational Testing Service, USA
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS St. Petersburg, Russia
Heysem Kaya, Namik Kemal University, Turkey
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Irina Kipyatkova, SPIIRAS, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Liliya Komalova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
Theodoros Kostoulas, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios Kouroupetroglou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 
Greece
Alexandros Lazaridis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Benjamin Lecouteux, Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble, France
Boris Lobanov, UIIP NAS Belarus, Belarus
Elena Lyakso, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Fragkiskos Malliaros, UC San Diego, USA
Konstantin Markov, University of Aizu, Japan
Michael Maruschke, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Yuri Matveev, ITMO University, Russia
Lily Meng, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Roman Meshcheryakov, TUSUR, Russia
Peter Mihajlik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
Bernd Möbius, Saarland University, Germany
Konstantinos Moustakas, University of Patras, Greece
Hema Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Maryam Najafian, MIT, USA
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Marina Nastasenko, ASM Solutions, Russia
Géza Németh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Thomas Niesler, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Stavros Ntalampiras, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Carita Paradis, Lund University, Sweden
Michael Paraskevas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, 
Greece
Hemant Patil, DA-IICT, India
Alexander Petrovsky, BSUIR, Belarus
Alexey Petrovsky, Huawei, Russia
Dimitar Popov, Bologna University, Italy
Branislav Popović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Ilyas Potamitis, TEI Crete, Greece
Vsevolod Potapov, Moscow State University, Russia
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Milan Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Saeid Safavi, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Albert Ali Salah, Bogazici University, Turkey
Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey
Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany
James Scobbie, Queen Margaret University, UK
Johann Siau, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Vasiliki Simaki, Lund University, Sweden
Pavel Skrelin, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Victor Sorokin, IITP RAS, Russia
Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Stefan Steidl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Mikhail Stolbov, ITMO University, Russia
Tilo Strutz, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Sebastian Stüker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece
György Szaszák, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Fotis Talantzis, Athens Institute of Technology, Greece
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France
Laszlo Toth, RGAI, Hungary
Isabel Trancoso, INESC ID Lisboa, Portugal
Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Stavros Tsakalidis, BBN Technologies, USA
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Vasilisa Verkhodanova, SPIIRAS, Russia
Klara Vicsi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Christian Wellekens, Eurecom, France
Andreas Wendemuth, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Hossein Zeinali, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

 
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral 
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in 
plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Details about the social events will be available on the web page.
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in 
the Springer LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either 
orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based 
upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked 
to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the 
conference web site. 

The authors are asked to submit their papers using EasyChair submission system 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018

Papers submitted to SPECOM 2018 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.
 
The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts 
included. Upon notification of acceptance, 
speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and 
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture 
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation 
databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are 
included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2018 ............. Submission of full papers
May  30, 2018 ............. Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2018 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ....... Conference date
 
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will 
be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
 
VENUE
The conference will take place at Leipzig University of Telecommunications, 
Germany.
 
ACCOMMODATION
The registration for the conference does not include any hotel reservation.
Leipzig has a plenitude of hotels ranging from low budget accommodations to 
luxury hotels such as the Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof. Most of them 
are located in the center of Leipzig. There are some hotels within walking 
distance to the venue, too. For further information, please, refer to the 
conference website. 
 
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM 2018 Secretariat:
Email: specom at iias.spb.su and specom at hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM 2018 web site: www.specom2018.org
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