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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

GENERAL ASSEMBLY. INTERSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium. Agenda Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh) President's Report Treasurer's Report Approval of Reports Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board ISCA: Goals for 2007-8

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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  1. GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium

  2. Agenda • Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh) • President's Report • Treasurer's Report • Approval of Reports • Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board • ISCA: Goals for 2007-8 • Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly • Any Other Business • Handover to the New President

  3. Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 19 September 2006, 6:30 pm • Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly (Lisbon) • President's Report • Treasurer's Report • Approval of Reports • ISCA: Goals for 2006-7 • Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly • Any Other Business

  4. President’s Report • Recent Board Meetings • Secretariat and Membership • Membership Services • The ISCA Online Archive • Workshops • International Affairs • Scientific Diversity • Industry Liaison • Conferences • Grants and Awards • Student Liaison • Publications • SIGs • Others Julia Hirschberg

  5. Recent Board Meetings • Sept. 2005: Lisbon (2) • Dec. 2005: Virtual • Mar. 2006: Virtual • Jun. 2006: Virtual • Sept.2006: Pittsburgh (2) • Dec. 2006: Virtual • Jan. 2007: Virtual • April 2007: Virtual • Aug. 2007: Antwerp

  6. 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

  7. Membership Development

  8. Membership by Category

  9. Membership 596 – 44% 434 - 3% 12 – 1% 17 – 1% 296 – 21%

  10. Membership Services • Individual member username and password now can be used to access the Archive • Improved the re-application process for current members to on-line membership application system with integration into the back-end banking system. • Online ISCA Election • Improved web-based membership search and reporting facilities for membership administration • In Progress: • Enabling access to ISCA Archive by Google Scholar • Website re-design [on-going - completed basic design / navigation structure will put on-line shortly for consideration by Board]. Michael Picheny

  11. Wolfgang Hess • The ISCA Online Archive • Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2006 in machine-readable form • 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

  12. Main Page Abstract/Paper Event Page Archive Structure

  13. Some Numbers • 19 INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP) Conferences with 11651 papers • 65 ITRW‘s and ETRW‘s with 2664 papers • Nine ISCA-supported events with 768 papers • In total: 93 events, 15083 papers, 4.51 GByte of disk space • New INTERSPEECH conferences, ITRW‘s, and supported events will add around 1000 papers per year • Planned: ISCA Archive on DVD. Likely to be ready in 2008.

  14. Sadaoki Furui ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs) • 11 ITRWs organized 2006-2007 • Publications • Proceedings • CD-ROMs • Special IssuesSpeech Communication • Archive • 22 ISCA-supported (non-ITRW) Workshops • Contact ISCA fornew event proposalsworkshops@isca-speech.org

  15. 2007 • NOLISP07 – Non-Linear Speech Processing • SSW-6 – 6th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop • Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems • 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue • SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education 2008 • Odyssey 2008 (The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop) • Workshop on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head & Neck Oncology • Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery • Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2008 • AVSP 2008 (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing) Sadaoki Furui

  16. 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 Europe • ISCA International Affairs Committee tries to fulfill that mandate • Targets regions currently under-represented in ISCA programs • Establishing Subcommittees for these regions to 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

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

  18. Sadaoki Furui 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 by the end of 2006 for 2007-08 • Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technologies, USA • first lecture tour going to South Asia in Nov 2007 • Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands • first lecture tour to Brazil in June 2007 • Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2007 Lin-shan Lee

  19. Hiroya Fujisaki Scientific Diversity • In charge of strengthening and broadening ISCA’s involvement in all areas of scientific and technological disciplines that are related to speech communication, both between humans and between humans and machines 1. Survey on long-term trends of papers presented at INTERSPEECH conferences 2. Re-examine topics to be announced in the call for papers, etc. 3. Identify key areas where ISCA’s involvement and leadership is desired

  20. Hiroya Fujisaki Scientific Diversity • ISCA Board’s Recommendation on thelist of topics for INTERSPEECH conferences since 2004 • ISCA Board’s Recommendation onstrategies for encouraging active exchanges with less well represented fields: a. Composition of the organizing team b. Enlarging the range of contact beyond past attendees and current members c. Organizing special sessions, invited talks, etc. especially aimed at interdisciplinary exchanges d. Advisory Committee on Scientific Diversity

  21. Industry Liaison • Maintains a List of Speech R&D Companies and Speech Technology Vendors • multinational, national and regional companies • provides job advertising service • ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior R&D Managers of Multinational Speech R&D Companies • September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon • September 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh • Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog • information on ISCA‘s role in speech R&D internationally • job market facilitation through ISCA publications and website • emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standards Michael Wagner

  22. International Conferences • Future INTERSPEECH Conferences • 2008, Brisbane, Australia • 2009, Brighton, UK • 2010, Makuhari, Japan • 2011 - Call for Proposals and guidelines available http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (deadline: November 15th 2007) • No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction • Call for volunteers reviewers Isabel Trancoso

  23. Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 Sept. Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 Sept.

  24. INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK 6-9 Sept. “Speech and Intelligence”

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

  26. Grants September 2006 -07 Jean-François Bonastre Total expenditure by ISCA: ~13500 E Int.07: ~10600 E Total: ~24100 E Grants:54(7 events) 41 for IS-07 13 for other ISCA events Countries: 23

  27. Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2007 Recipient: Victor Zue ISCA Medal for Service 2007Recipient: Wolfgang Hess ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2004-2006 (Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Rob Schapire) 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2007 Philippe Dreuw« Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System »Chao Qin« An Empirical Investigation of the Nonuniqueness in the Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping »Patrick Lucey« A Unified Approach to Multi-Pose Audio-Visual ASR » Jean-François Bonastre A. W. Black A. Cutler P. Dalsgaard B. GranstromJ. Hansen L. Lamel C. H. LeeJ. Mariani R. K. Moore E. Shriberg R. Stern B. Z. Yuan Jury:

  28. Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Jean-François Bonastre • Currently 5 board members, 6 student volunteers, … growing every month • After serving 2 terms, Murat and Christophe are leaving the board. Marco and Antonio became board members after their experience as student volunteers.

  29. Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Jean-François Bonastre • Last year’s progress: • Website improved significantly with new components, over 200 users. • ISCA archive indexed under Google Scholar in collaboration with Google and David Gelbart from ICSI. Increased visibility of ISCA archive and citation. • Educational Series (seminars, panel discussions) @ every Interspeech (last year: how to find your dream job?, this year: how to improve your presentation skills?), new events coming at following Interspeech conferences… • Transcription of last year’s panel discussion uploaded on the web

  30. ISCApad number 110 July 31st, 2007 Editorial Dear Members, Due to holidays, this August issue is delivered a little bit earlier in order that all announcements are not too much delayed and are available before Interspeech. See you there and be prepared to attend our general assembly in Antwerp with many questions and constructive comments. Christian Wellekens TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ISCA News 2. SIG's activities 3. Courses, internships 4. Books, databases, softwares 5. Job openings 6. Journals 7. Future Interspeech Conferences 8. Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) 9. Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA 10. Future Speech Science and technology events Publications • ISCApad monthly E-newspaper (last issue: #110): ISCA life, job offers, conferences, under print papers, new books… • Elsevier contacts Speech Communication

  31. AVISA SIGdial SaLTMIL Special Interest Groups (SIGs) EvaHajicova AISV SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFCP SynSIG Chinese SLP SLaTE

  32. Some special activities of SIGs • Special session at Interspeech - proposed by SALTMIL • International Conferences and Workshops - e.g. SP 2006 organized by SProSIG • Special issue of Speech Communication – SIG-IL • Summer Schools - AISV • Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs • Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!

  33. Chris Wellekens Treasurer’s Report • Positive result for 2006 (less income but less expenditure) • Regular financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding • Considerable savings in Board meeting costs (4 teleconference meeting - 1 regular ) • Plans done for new initiatives in 2007-8: distinguished lecturers, website, grants, student activities

  34. Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables

  35. 78,539 67,953 10,586

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

  37. Conclusions Chris Wellekens • ISCA is financially sound • ISCA will continue to provide loans for Inter- speech conferences and ITRW workshops • ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its support for grants, Distinguished Lecturer travel, and new initiatives

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

  39. Goals for 2007-8 • To expand international participation in ISCA • Distinguished Lecturers program • Regional sub-committees • To understand members’ needs better through surveys and increase community involvement • To support student-centered activities • To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones

  40. Changes to the ISCA Board President: Isabel Trancoso New members: Alan Black (USA), Helen Meng (China), Bernd Möbius (Germany), Yoshinori Sagisaka (Japan), Tanja Schultz (Germany) Continuing members: Jean-Francois Bonastre, Eva Hajicova, David House, Lin-shan Lee, Michael Picheny, Isabel Trancoso Retiring members: Hiroya Fujisaki, Sadaoki Furui, Julia Hirschberg, Michael Wagner, Chris Wellekens

  41. Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2008 Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008

  42. Any Other Business?

  43. Handover to the new ISCA President Isabel Trancoso

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