Transcript ISCA 2003 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
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
Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly in Brisbane,
Australia, 24 September 2008, 6.00 pm
1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes
of the 2007 General Assembly (Antwerp)
2. President's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of Reports
5. ISCA: Goals for 2008-2009
6. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from
ISCA Members
7. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
8. Any Other Business
President’s Report
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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
ISCA Board (2008-2009)
President::
Isabel Trancoso
Vice-Pres. / ITWRs:
Jean-François Bonastre
Grants & Awards:
Alan Black
Membership Services:
Eva Hajicova
SIGs:
Michael Picheny
Liaison w/ other orgs:
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Ex officio
Secretary:
David House
Treasurer:
Bernd Möbius
International Affairs: Education / Website:
Lin-shan Lee
Helen Meng
Conferences:
Tanja Schultz
Archive
Wolfgang Hess
ISCApad::
Chris Wellekens
Recent Board Meetings
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Sept.2006:
Dec. 2006:
Jan. 2007:
April 2007:
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June 2008:
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Dec. 2008:
April 2009:
Pittsburgh (2)
Virtual
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Antwerp (2)
Virtual
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Brisbane (2)
Virtual
Taipei (at ICASSP)
Secretariat and Membership
• Direct contact with members
• Membership database
• Financial transactions and administration
– Support for ITRWs
– Membership dues
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David House
ISCA Secretary
Web content coordination
Documentation of ISCA board meetings
Elections to the Board and Advisory Council
ISCA Statutes and Bylaws
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later:
[email protected]
Manu Foxonet
Administrative
Assistant
Membership Development
Membership From 1989 to 2009
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Membership by country
Czech Republic
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Norway
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Sweden
1%
Switzerland
1%
Taïwan
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33 coutries with less
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11%
USA
16%
Finland
1%
France
14%
Portugal
1%
India
2%
Italy
2%
Canada
2%
Belgium
2%
Netherlands
2%
Spain
3%
China
3%
Japan
12%
U.K.
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Korea Australia
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Germany
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USA
France
Japan
Germany
U.K.
Australia
Korea
China
Spain
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Belgium
Canada
Italy
India
Portugal
Taïwan
Switzerland
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Czech Republic
33 coutries with less than 1%
• ISCA website
Helen Meng
– 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
The ISCA Online Archive
Wolfgang Hess
• 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 2003
http://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
Archive
Structure
Main Page
Abstract/Paper
Event Page
ISCA Workshops
(ITRWs and supported events)
2009
15 wrk/conf.
Sponsored
ISCA support for workshops
– Web and ISCAPAD announcements
– Grants for students
– Archive
(2 ITRW)
Contact ISCA
for new event proposals
[email protected]
Jean-François
Bonastre
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Secretariat support
Online banking service
Online registration
Monetary advance
Web/Mail announcement
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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
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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
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Michael Picheny
AISV
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
SIGdial
AVISA
SynSIG
SaLTMIL
SIGRU
Chinese SLP
SLaTE
Representative SIG Activities:
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Michael Picheny
Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs
International Conferences and Workshops - e.g. ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIGCSLP (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
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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.
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Should the International Affairs Committee coordinate such SIGs for better synergy?
Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!
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
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Sub-committee on Eastern Europe
Sub-committee on West Asia and North Africa
Sub-committee on South Asia
Sub-committee on Sub-Saharan Africa
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
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program
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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
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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
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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
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Sadaoki Furui
Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2009
Lin-shan Lee
Industry Liaison
Michael Picheny
• Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA
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Listed on ISCA website (under development)
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Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates
• September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane
• September 2009 at INTERSPEECH in Brighton
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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
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Liaison with other Organizations
• Liaison with organizations in speech and
language
– ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA
– Encouragement of joint activities
– Representation in NAACL&HLT
ISCA journals
– Speech Communication
– Computer Speech and Language
– Best paper awards
Yoshinori Sagisaka
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
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participants
2009
“Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless
of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”
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
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
Awards
Alan W Black
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
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
Student liaison
Helen Meng
ISCA Student Advisory Committee
Board members:
Samer Al Moubayed
Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti
Antonio Roque
Outreach Coordinator
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Educational Series Coordinator
University of Cambridge, UK
Transition Coordinator
University of Southern California, USA
Sylvie Saget
Sunayana Sitaram
Marcel Wältermann
General Coordinator
Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI Department, France
Volunteers Coordinator
Web Coordinator
National Institute of Technology, Surat, India Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2009
• Student Panel Discussion
– Organisers: ISCA SAC
– Sponsors: ISCA
– Date: Tue (Sep 8, 13:30-15:30)
– Guests:
Helen Meng
• 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
Other activities of ISCA-SAC
Helen Meng
• 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)
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
• 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
Income
2007
2008
34,386
**95,219
*74,863
**73,095
(Pittsburgh)
(Antwerp+Brisbane)
ITRW shares
0
1,836
Proceedings
483
0
2092
3,254
111,824
173,405
Membership fees
Interspeech
donations
Interest on Savings
TOTAL (€)***
* 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
Expenditure (1)
2007
2008
37,100
*26,615
Board/Committee
meetings
3,749
**8,727
Secretariat
3,054
2,583
12,742
12,490
Special Interest Groups
2,000
0
Web maintenance
9,019
5,508
67,674
55,923
Salaries
Grants
subtotal
* Lower because of maternity leave
** Includes room rent for all committee meetings
Expenditure (2)
2007
2008
67,674
55,923
Distinguished Lecturers
3,373
4,395
Workshop support
1,000
1,000
Students
0
0
Other
0
738
Bank Costs
1,283
1,189
TOTAL (€)
73,330
63,245
INCOME OVER
EXPENDITURE
2006
2007
2008
Income
78,539
111,824
173,405
Expenditure
67,953
73,330
63,245
Income over
Expenditure
10,586
38,494
110,160
Assets
31.12.2007
31.12.2008
BANK BALANCE
96,085
161,244
RECEIVABLES
35,000
39,000
131,085
200,244
PAYABLES
0
0
EQUITY (€)
131,085
200,244
TOTAL ASSETS (€)
Liabilities & Equity
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.
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!
Approval of Reports
• President‘s Report
• Treasurer‘s Report
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
New ISCA Board
Alan Black
Haizhou Li
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Jean-François Bonastre
Helen Meng
Yannis Stilianou
Nick Campbell
Bernd Möbius
Tanja Schultz
Keikichi Hirose
Douglas O‘Shaugnessy
Isabel Trancoso
David House
Michael Picheny
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
Board composition
Alternatives considered:
A.
Keep current restriction (max 2 per country)
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Increase limit to max 3 per country
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Include regional restrictions
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Make restrictions proportional to membership representation
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max 3-6 per region
Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania
need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult
Remove restriction
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None of the above options encourages diversity in field
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In view of extension to 14 members
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Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation
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To be presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but voted in 2010, in time for the
next Board elections
Comments, Suggestions and
Questions from ISCA Members
Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2010
Makuhari, Japan, September 26-30, 2010
Any Other Business?