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[SIPTA] SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC March 23, 2014

March 23, 2014

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire dInformatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] special issue on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics
by Kreinovich March 21, 2014

March 21, 2014

Dear Friends, The International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR), published by Elsevier http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-approximate-reaso… is planning a special issue on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics. We expect to publish up to 10 papers, each about 8-12 pages in IJAR format. All papers will be peer-refereed. About half of the issue will be filled with extended versions of selected papers presented at a recent International Conference on Modeling Dependence in Econometrics (Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 8-10, 2014). Invitations are being sent to the authors of the invited papers; these papers will also be peer-refereed. In addition, about half of the issue is open for submissions, including submission by authors who did not participate in the conference. Papers need to be submitted to IJAR by June 1, 2014. The journal website has detailed instructions about the journal's scope and instructions on how to submit papers. When submitting a paper, please do not forget to indicate that the submitted papers are for the special issue of Dependence in Econometrics. We expect to notify the authors by September 1, 2014. Final versions of accepted papers are due by November 1, 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact us at Vladik(a)utep.edu if you have any questions about this issue. Van-Nam Huynh and Vladik Kreinovich Guest Editors

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[SIPTA] BELIEF 2014 - 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions - 2nd Call for Papers
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 18, 2014

March 18, 2014

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[SIPTA] FW: The 8th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2015: Econometrics of Risk
by Kreinovich March 17, 2014

March 17, 2014

FYI ************************************************************* The 8th International Conference of the Thailand Econometric Society TES'2015: Econometrics of Risk January 7-9, 2015 http://www.cmse-conference.org/ Call for Papers: TES'2015 calls for academic papers in the field of theoretical and empirical econometrics. The theme of the conference in January 2015 is "Econometrics of Risk". The conference also welcomes all disciplines in quantitative economics. Please submit your paper in PDF or MS-Word to Thailand.econometric.society(a)gmail.com The deadline of the submission (first round) is May 31st, 2014. All papers submitted in this first round will be considered for the publication in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag (indexed in SCOPUS). Each paper will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees assigned by the Chair of Scientific Committee. The authors must revise the papers according to comments from the referees and re-submit the paper for the final decision of the Scientific Committee. Qualified papers will be included in the book and released at the conference in January 2015. Later, the conference will open again for the second round submission, with the deadline of October 15, 2014. Papers submitted in this second round will also be peer reviewed, accepted papers will be presented at the conference -- but they will not appear in the Springer book. Authors of all accepted papers are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers to relevant journals (see list below). Editors of these journals may contact some of the authors of accepted papers encouraging them to submit their extended versions. These extended\ versions will be peer-refereed by the corresponding journals. Important dates Deadline for the first-round submission: 31 May 2014 Comments from referees sent to authors: 30 June 2014 Deadline for submitting revised versions: 31 July 2014 Final decision sent to authors: 10 August 2014 Deadline for submitting formatted papers: 31 August 2014 All the paper files are compiled together and sent to Springer Verlag: 15 September 2014 Deadline for the second-round submission: 15 October 2014 Comments from referees sent to authors: 31 October 2014 Deadline for submitting revised versions: 20 November 2014 Final decision about presentation at the conference: 30 November 2014 Chairs of the conference General chair: Dean Pisit Leeahtam President of TES: Prof. Songsak Sriboonchitta Chair of scientific committee: Prof. Hung T. Nguyen Chair of administrative committee: Dr. Rossarin Osathanunkul Editors of the "Econometrics of Risk" edited book to be published by Springer-Verlag: * Prof. Van Nam Huynh * Prof. Vladik Kreinovich * Prof. Songsak Sriboonchitta * Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya Journals interesting in publishing corresponding papers, and their Editors-in-Chief: * Journal of Econometrics Prof. Cheng Hsiao * Journal of Approximate Reasoning Prof. Thierry Denoeux * International Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics Prof. Berlin Wu * Advanced Technology in Economics Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya * The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters Assoc. Prof. Komsan Suriya

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Re: [SIPTA] Call for papers for a special issue
by Kreinovich March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

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Re: [SIPTA] SMPS 2014
by Kreinovich March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Przemysław Grzegorzewski [mailto:pgrzeg(a)ibspan.waw.pl] Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics - SMPS 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous requests from the community we decided to extend the submission deadline for SMPS 2014 by a couple of days. The new paper submission deadline is March 31st. Here is again some information about the conference: * SMPS 2014, the 7th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, will take place in Warsaw (Poland), September 22-24, 2014. * Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing . * Invited speakers: Eyke Hüllermeier, Inés Couso, Bernard De Baets. * For more details, please, see the Conference Website: http://smps2014.ibspan.waw.pl/ Best regards, Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski

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[SIPTA] [jobs] PhD position in "Uncertainty in Computer Vision" - Oxford Brookes University - Dr Fabio Cuzzolin
by Fabio Cuzzolin March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014

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[SIPTA] SSTiC 2014: March 15, 4th registration deadline
by GRLMC March 8, 2014

March 8, 2014

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- March 15, 4th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Re: [SIPTA] CFP: Workshop on Models and Paradigms for Planning Under Uncertainty
by Kreinovich March 3, 2014

March 3, 2014

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[SIPTA] SIPTA school: 2nd call for participation
by Enrique Miranda March 3, 2014

March 3, 2014

6th SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities (21-25 Jul 2014, Montpellier, France): 2nd announcement Sixth school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA). July 21-25, 2014, Montpellier, France. http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTAschool2014/ Dear colleagues, The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 6th edition of its school in Montpellier, France, during 21-25 July 2014, the local organizer is the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique (LIRMM) of the university of Montpellier. The school venue is in the center of Montpellier, a historical French city on the Mediterranean coast. The SIPTA school provides an introduction to imprecise probabilities for students and researchers. The basics and some advanced theoretical aspects will be covered. Of particular interest will be applications of imprecise probabilities. World experts in the different aspects of imprecise probabilities will teach about their area of expertise. An important part of the time is devoted to solving exercises and to the presentation of open application problems. *Topics & Lecturers* Imprecise probability is used as a generic term to cover all mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be incomplete. The topics covered this year will include: - Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and SÃ©bastien Destercke, France) - Other imprecise probability theories (InÃ©s Couso, Spain, and Didier Dubois, France) - Inference (Erik Quaeghebeur, The Netherlands, and Gert de Cooman, Belgium) - Algorithms & approximation methods (Cassio P. de Campos, Switzerland, and Alessandro Antonucci, Switzerland) - Graphical models and information retrieval (Alessandro Antonucci, Switzerland, and Cassio P. de Campos, Switzerland) - Decision Making (Matthias C.M. Troffaes, UK) - Joint treatment of stochastic and epistemic uncertainties: applications in the field of environmental risks (Dominique Guyonnet, France) - Climate change impact (Hermann Held, Germany) The full program can be found on the School website. It will be updated as details become available. *Pre-registration* Since the number of participants is limited, it is necessary to inform us of your intent to participate as soon as possible. To do so, complete and submit the pre-registration form on the school website. More information is available at the school website: http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTAschool2014/ We are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier. We also welcome you to circulate this announcement around you. Best regards Kevin Loquin <kevin.loquin(a)gmail.com> Enrique Miranda <mirandaenrique(a)uniovi.es> Erik Quaeghebeur <Erik.Quaeghebeur(a)ugent.be> Olivier Strauss <strauss(a)lirmm.fr>

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