20th International
Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
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
The 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
Forensic 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 EVENTS
3nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics
ICR-2018
http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018.html
SPECOM-2018 CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of
languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
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.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in
the LNCS style. 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 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.
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 Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. 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 early registration
Sept. 12-16, 2018 , Conference dates
VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of
Telecommunications.
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2018 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su;
jokisch@hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM-2018 web-site:
http://specom.nw.ru/2018/main
