IBERSPEECH 2024 (Aveiro, November 11-13, 2024) – CALL FOR PAPERS

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IberSPEECH’2024 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal), from 11 to 13 November 2024. The IberSPEECH event –the seventh of its kind using this name– brings together the XIII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the IX Iberian SLTech Workshop events.

Following with the tradition of previous editions, IberSPEECH’2024 will be a three-day event, planned to promote interaction and discussion. There will be a wide variety of activities: technical papers presentations, keynote lectures, presentation of projects, laboratories activities, recent PhD thesis, entrepreneurship & discussion panels, and awards to the best thesis and papers.

You can find all the information of this first call for papers at https://iberspeech.tech. More details will be available soon on this website.

** Important Dates **

Regular Papers

Submission opens: June 14th, 2024
Submission abstract deadline: July 12th, 2024
Submission full paper deadline: July 19th, 2024
Paper notifications sent: September 20th, 2024
Camera-ready paper due: September 29th, 2024

Special Sessions (including Projects, Demos, PhD Theses & Entrepreneurship)

Special Sessions proposals: end of April 2024
Contributions: October 7th, 2024
Full-Paper: October 14th, 2024

Albayzin Evaluations 2024

Selection of evaluation proposals: April 19th, 2024
Opening of registration for the evaluation: May 20th, 2024
Release of training and development data: June 3rd, 2024
Registration deadline for the evaluation: July 31st ,2024
Release of evaluation data: September 2nd ,2024
Deadline for the submission of system outputs: October 18th, 2024
System results distributed to participants: October 31st, 2024
Official results presented publicly and published: November 12th, 2024
IberSPEECH 2024 Albayzin Evaluations special session in Aveiro: November 12th, 2024

Conference IBERSPEECH’2024

Conference Starts: Monday, November 11th, 2024
Conference Ends: Wednesday, November 13th, 2024


** Topics **

The topics of interest regarding processing Iberian languages include, but are not limited to:

Speech technology and applications

1. Spoken language generation and synthesis
2. Speech and speaker recognition
3. Speaker diarization
4. Speech enhancement
5. Speech processing and acoustic event detection
6. Spoken language understanding
7. Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems
8. Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech
9. Systems for speech translation
10. Applications for aged and handicapped persons
11. Applications for learning and education
12. Emotions recognition and synthesis
13. Language and dialect identification
14. Applications for learning and education
15. Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders
16. Speech technology and applications: other topics

Human speech production, perception, and communication

1. Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language
2. Phonetics, phonology, and morphology
3. Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon
4. Paralinguistic and non-linguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
5. Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

Natural language processing (NLP) and applications

1. Natural language generation and understanding
2. Retrieval and categorization of natural language documents
3. Summarization mono and multi-document
4. Extraction and annotation of entities, relations, and properties
5. Creation and processing of ontologies and vocabularies
6. Machine learning for natural language processing
7. Shallow and deep semantic analysis: textual entailment, anaphora resolution, paraphrasing
8. Multi-lingual processing for information retrieval and extraction
9. Natural language processing for information retrieval and extraction
10. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications: other topics

Speech, Language and Multimodality

1. Multimodal Interaction
2. Sign Language
3. Handwriting recognition
4. Audiovisual language processing
5. Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

Resources, standardization, and evaluation

1. Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools
2. Spoken language evaluation and standardization
3. NLP resources, annotation, tools
4. NLP evaluation and standardization
5. Multimodal resources, annotation, and tools
6. Multimodal evaluation and standardization
7. Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

Paper Submission

Regular Papers must be written in English and submission will be online. Papers must be submitted in PDF following the Interspeech 2024 format (more information at https://interspeech2024.org/author-resources/ ). Papers can have a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references and acknowledgments. There is no minimum length requirement for papers of the special sessions project review and demos. Aligned with Interspeech adoption of “Double-blind review”, IberSPEECH submissions must be blind.
Upon acceptance, at least one author per paper will be required to register (full & early) and present the paper at the conference.
 
** Committees **

General Chairs

Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Carlos David Martínez Hinarejos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Technical Program Chair

Eduardo Lleida, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Carmen Garcia Mateo, U Vigo, Spain
Eva Navas, University of the Basque Country, UPV- EHU, Spain
José Andrés González López, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Francesc Alías Pujol, La Salle — Universitat Ramon LLull, Spain
Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Luis Fernando D’Haro, UPM, Spain

Special Sessions Chairs

Dayana Ribas, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Evaluation Chairs

Eduardo Lleida Solano, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, GTTS, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Javier Tejedor Noguerales, BIOLAB, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain
Doroteo Torre Toledano, AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Local Committee

Catarina Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ana Rocha, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Nuno Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Bernardo Marques, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Mário Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fábio Barros, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal (Webmaster)
Gabriel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal