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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

GENERAL ASSEMBLY. INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK. Agenda 1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane) 2. President’s report 3. Treasurer’s report 4. Approval of the reports 5. Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board 6. ISCA goals for 2009-2010

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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  1. GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK

  2. Agenda 1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane) 2. President’s report 3. Treasurer’s report 4. Approval of the reports 5. Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board 6. ISCA goals for 2009-2010 7. Information on proposal to change ISCA Statute A4.1 which restricts Board membership to two members per country 8. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 9. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly 10. Any other business

  3. Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly in Brisbane, Australia, 24 September 2008, 6.00 pm • Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly (Antwerp) • President's Report • Treasurer's Report • Approval of Reports • ISCA: Goals for 2008-2009 • Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members • Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly • Any Other Business

  4. President’s Report • The ISCA Board • Recent Board Meetings • Secretariat and Membership • ISCA Web • The ISCA Online Archive • Workshops • SIGs • International Affairs • Industry Liaison • Liaison with other Organizations • Conferences • Grants and Awards • Student Liaison • Publications • Others Isabel Trancoso President

  5. Archive Wolfgang Hess ISCApad:: Chris Wellekens ISCA Board (2008-2009) Ex officio Vice-Pres. / ITWRs: Jean-François Bonastre President:: Isabel Trancoso Secretary: David House Treasurer: Bernd Möbius International Affairs: Lin-shan Lee Grants & Awards: Alan Black Membership Services: Eva Hajicova Education / Website: Helen Meng Conferences: Tanja Schultz SIGs: Michael Picheny Liaison w/ other orgs: Yoshinori Sagisaka

  6. Recent Board Meetings • Sept.2006: Pittsburgh (2) • Dec. 2006: Virtual • Jan. 2007: Virtual • April 2007: Virtual • Aug. 2007: Antwerp (2) • Dec. 2007: Virtual • June 2008: Virtual • Sept. 2008: Brisbane (2) • Dec. 2008: Virtual • April 2009: Taipei (at ICASSP)

  7. Secretariat and Membership • Direct contact with members • Membership database • Financial transactions and administration • Support for ITRWs • Membership dues • Web content coordination • Documentation of ISCA board meetings • Elections to the Board and Advisory Council • ISCA Statutes and Bylaws David House ISCA Secretary Please give us input and suggestions either this week at the ISCA Booth or later: secretariat@isca-speech.org Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant

  8. Membership Development

  9. Membership by Category

  10. Membership by country

  11. ISCA website • Need for significant improvement • Migrate provider from Mdb Web & Data Solutions to InCampus Pte. Ltd. (with help from Dr. Haizhou Li) • Resumé posting service at: • http://www.isca- students.org/isca_resumes_search_facility • With help from Dr. Michael Picheny • Maintenance by ISCA SAC members • Web information updates • Emmanuelle Foxonet, ISCA administrator Helen Meng

  12. Wolfgang Hess • The ISCA Online Archive • Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2009 in machine-readable form • > 100 events • Available on website since August 2003http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html • Abstracts accessible for everybody • Full papers accessible for members only • Use your individual ISCA password to access • Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David Gelbart and the Student Committee

  13. Main Page Abstract/Paper Event Page Archive Structure

  14. 2009 15 wrk/conf. Sponsored (2 ITRW) Contact ISCA for new event proposalsworkshops@isca-speech.org ISCA support for workshops Web and ISCAPAD announcements Grants for students Archive ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events) Jean-François Bonastre Additional services • Secretariat support • Online banking service • Online registration • Monetary advance • Web/Mail announcement

  15. WOCCI, October 2008 (CRETE/GREECE) Wrk in memory of C. Benoît, October 2008 (France) VJTH , November 2008 (Spain) - SIGIL SLT, December 2008 (India) –ILSP DiaHolmia, June, 2009 (Sweden) NOLISP, June 2009 (Spain), ITRW KRPDS, July 2009 (USA) SLATE, September 2009 (UK), Slate, ITRW ACORNS, September 2009 (UK) AVSP, September 2009 (UK) - AVISA SIGDIAL, September 2009 (UK) – SIGDIAL Blizzard, September 2009 (UK) - SynSIG YRRSD, September 2009 (UK) SLTD, September 2009 (UK) IE-IR-LRL, September 2009 (Spain) - SALTMIL WOCCI, November 2009 (USA) IEEE ASRU, December 2009 (Italy) MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy) eaSDS, December 2009 (Germany) LREC 2010, May 2010 (Malta) Speaker Odyssey, June-July 2010 (Czech Republic), SPLC, ITRW J-F Bonastre

  16. AVISA SIGdial SaLTMIL Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Michael Picheny AISV SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFCP SynSIG SIGRU Chinese SLP SLaTE

  17. Representative SIG Activities: • Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs • International Conferences and Workshops - e.g. ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIG-CSLP (Dec. 2008), SIGDIAL (in conjunction with Interspeech 2009), SLATE (Sept 2009), VJTH (SIGIL, Nov., 2008), Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), Blizzard (SYNSIG, Sept. 2009). • Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2009) • Upcoming Special issue of Speech Communication – SLATE (October, 2009) Topic vs Language-specific SIGs • Some SIGs are clearly geographically based (SIG-IL, SIGRU, etc), others such as SIGDIAL, SYNSIG and SPLC are clearly topic-based and broad-based geographically. • Should the International Affairs Committee coordinate such SIGs for better synergy? Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!! Michael Picheny

  18. ISCA International Affairs Committee Lin-shan Lee • ISCA decided to become an international organization in 1999 in Budapest • Events and participants in them should not be confined to limited number of countries • ISCA International Affairs Committee tries to fulfill that mandate • Targets regions currently under-represented in ISCA programs • Subcommittees for these regions initiate region-specific efforts • Sub-committee on Eastern Europe • Sub-committee on West Asia and North Africa • Sub-committee on South Asia • Sub-committee on Sub-Saharan Africa

  19. ISCA International Affairs Committee Lin-shan Lee • Sample Action Items for the International Affairs Committee • Arranging Distinguished Lecturers Tours to give lectures in far away regions • Disseminating information about regional research activities to the global research community through ISCA channels • Initiating ISCA-organized or co-sponsored events in their region • Distributing ISCA event and service information to researchers in their region • Recommending that students and young researchers in their region apply for ISCA grants to attend events sponsored by ISCA • Developing ISCA relationships with relevant sister associations in their regions • Establishing Special Interest Groups

  20. ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program Sending Distinguished Lecturers to different parts of the world when invited by a Regional Subcommittee Selection Committee chaired by Sadaoki Furui Two Distinguished Lecturers selected Dec 2006 for 2007-08 Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technologies, USA South Asia in Nov 2007 and Latin America in Oct 2008 Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Brazil in June 2007 and Southern Africa in July 2008 One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009 Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA India planned for Dec 2008 but canceled, now planned for Dec 2009 Latin America in Aug 2009 Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for 2009-2010 Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Lecture Trips under planning Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2009 Sadaoki Furui Lin-shan Lee

  21. Industry Liaison • Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA • Listed on ISCA website (under development) • Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates • September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane • September 2009 at INTERSPEECH in Brighton • Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus • One of first actions: leverage new student resume service (in conjunction with SAC and Education Coordinator) to help match students with jobs. • Future goals: promote educational materials, software, workshops with industrial application focus Michael Picheny

  22. Liaison with other Organizations • Liaison with organizations in speech and language • ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ andASSTA • Encouragement of joint activities • Representation in NAACL&HLT Yoshinori Sagisaka

  23. ISCA journals • Speech Communication • Computer Speech and Language • Best paper awards Yoshinori Sagisaka

  24. International Conferences Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences 2010, Makuhari, Japan 2011, Florence, Italy 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA Call for Proposals and guidelines available http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (deadline: November 15th 2009) Call for volunteer reviewers Tanja Schultz

  25. “Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”

  26. Grants September 2008-09 Alan W Black Total expenditure by ISCA: ~19750 € IS09: ~13000 € Total: ~32750 € 52 Grants 8 events 23 Countries By Country: (by institution of awardees) USA 10, UK 4, France 4, India 3, Spain 3, China 3, South Africa 2, Australia 2, Belgium 2 plus others By Continent: NA: 11, Europe 21, Africa 2, SA 1, Asia 16, ANZ 1 Extra support from IS2006 organizers

  27. 2009: Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate 83% (2008: Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51%) Awardees are: Students, First time presentation ISCA support event, One grant per Institution Exceptions sometimes made Rejections are due to : Applications from the same group, too many for event Please apply early through Online Application Website

  28. Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2008 Recipient: Sadaoki Furui 6 new ISCA Fellows ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2007-2009 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2009 TBA Thursday 2009 at the Interspeech 2009 closing ceremony Alan W Black

  29. Fellows nomination procedure 2009: • 11 nominations • 6 awarded •Anne Cutler • Wolfgang Hess • Joseph Mariani • Hermann Ney • Roberto Pieraccini • Elizabeth Shriberg Eva Hajicova Alan W Black

  30. Student liaison Helen Meng ISCA Student Advisory Committee Board members: Samer Al Moubayed Outreach Coordinator Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti Educational Series Coordinator University of Cambridge, UK Antonio Roque Transition Coordinator University of Southern California, USA Sylvie Saget General Coordinator Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI Department, France Sunayana Sitaram Volunteers Coordinator National Institute of Technology, Surat, India Marcel Wältermann Web Coordinator Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany

  31. ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2009 • Student Panel Discussion • Organisers: ISCA SAC • Sponsors: ISCA • Date: Tue (Sep 8, 13:30-15:30) • Guests: • Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research) • Philippe Bretier (Orange Labs) • Mike McTear (University of Ulster) • Web: Online Grant Application System • http://www.isca-students.org/grants • Student Room Share Service • Helped students find room-mates for the IS2009 conference • SAC members will be at the ISCA booth 12-14 every day Helen Meng

  32. Helen Meng Other activities of ISCA-SAC • Organization of the 10th anniversary poster design contest (72 submissions) • Interview transcriptions for the “History of Speech and Language Technology Project” (Saras Institute), publication in IEEE SLTC Newsletters • ISCA-SAC logo contest winner: Mohamed Abou-Zleikha • Website: Transition to Web 2.0 (Blog already launched)

  33. Publications • ISCA Pad on the website • Edited by Christian Wellekens • Authoring tool:ISCAPad Maker • By Laurence Liu and Helen Meng • Converts text to structured hyperlinks for easy access Chris Wellekens Helen Meng

  34. Treasurer’s Report Bernd MÖBIUS • Positive result for 2008 - more income but more expenditure due to new initiatives • Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding • Enhancing internationalization (DL, SIG) • Continuing grant support • Consistent saving thanks to Student Committee initiatives • Major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new web hosting service requiring more expenditures

  35. * Includes generous surplus donation from IS 2006 (Pittsburgh), to be used for grants ** Includes membership fees from 2 conferences (IS 2007, Antwerp and IS 2008, Brisbane) *** Loan payments/repayments are not included in income and expenditure tables

  36. * Lower because of maternity leave ** Includes room rent for all committee meetings

  37. For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 1-2 Interspeech conferences and 1-2 workshops outstanding. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.

  38. Conclusions • ISCA is financially sound - assets growing. • Increased reserves enable ISCA to reduce financial risks to conference organizers potentially reducing registration fees. • ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops. • ISCA is still in a position to strengthen its support for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives. • New ideas are most welcome!

  39. Approval of Reports • President‘s Report • Treasurer‘s Report

  40. Changes to the ISCA Board New members: Nick Campbell (Ireland), Keikichi Hirose (Japan), Haizhou Li (Singapore), Douglas O‘Shaughnessy (Canada), Yannis Stylianou (Greece) Continuing members: Alan Black, Jean-François Bonastre, David House, Helen Meng, Bernd Möbius, Michael Picheny, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Tanja Schultz, Isabel Trancoso Retiring members: Eva Hajicova, Lin-shan Lee

  41. New ISCA Board Alan Black Keikichi Hirose Jean-François Bonastre Nick Campbell David House Helen Meng Michael Picheny Haizhou Li Bernd Möbius Douglas O‘Shaugnessy Yoshinori Sagisaka Yannis Stilianou Isabel Trancoso Tanja Schultz

  42. Goals for 2009-10 • To enhance ISCA’s world position • To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops • To expand ISCA’s international aspects • To support student-centered activities • Regional sub-committees • Remote access to lectures (DL program) • To enhance the ISCA community • To raise the impact factor of ISCA members’ publications • To launch the ISCA video archive • To understand members’ needs better and increase community involvement • To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research • To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones

  43. Board composition Alternatives considered: • Keep current restriction (max 2 per country) • Increase limit to max 3 per country • Include regional restrictions • max 3-6 per region • Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania • Make restrictions proportional to membership representation • need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult • Remove restriction Problem: • None of the above options encourages diversity in field The Board unanimously decided for option B: • In view of extension to 14 members • Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation • To be presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but voted in 2010, in time for the next Board elections

  44. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

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