SSCS 2008

Second Call for Papers + Extended Deadline Notice SIGIR 2008 workshop: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech 24 July 2008, Singapore http://ilps.science.uva.nl/SSCS2008


 * New deadline: Friday, 23 May, 2008***

Large scale use and commercial application of retrieval technology for spoken content requires a sustained effort focused on merging speech recognition, audio analysis and information retrieval into a concerted discipline with a common vision. After the success of the 2007 Search in Spontaneous Conversational Speech workshop (SSCS 2007), a second workshop, SSCS 2008, will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGIR 2008 in order to further the cross-pollination between the speech research community and the information retrieval community. The workshop addresses application domains including: conversational broadcast, podcasts, meetings, lectures, discussions, debates, interviews and cultural heritage archives.

We welcome contributions on a range of cross-cutting issues, including:

-Representation of spoken content for optimal search (e.g., LVCSR, word lattice search, STD on phone lattice) -Exploitation of evidence beyond word-level (e.g., emotional state, speaker characteristics, topic shifts, audio events) -Application of text IR techniques to the speech domain -Speech mining in multimedia data -Multimodality (integrating features from associated non-speech content) -Search effectiveness (e.g., evidence combination, expansion) -Access to large scale collections -Evaluation resources and benchmarking activities -Multi-/cross-lingual retrieval -Cross-media mining (e.g., coupling images or text fragments to speech) -Interaction design and system development (e.g., query formulation, result presentation, search strategies) -Spoken audio visualization (e.g. results lists, individual results) -Spoken query search

Contributions for oral presentations (8 pages) poster presentations (2 pages), demonstration descriptions (2 pages) and position papers for selection of panel members (2 pages) will be accepted. Further information including submission guidelines can be found on the workshop website http://ilps.science.uva.nl/SSCS2008

Important Dates (*revised*) 23 May: Paper submission deadline 13 Jun: Notification of acceptance 23 Jun: Camera-ready papers due 24 July: SSCS 2008 Workshop at SIGIR 2008

Organizers Joachim Koehler, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Martha Larson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands Roeland Ordelman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Wessel Kraaij, TNO, The Netherlands This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP