Transcript ISCA 2003 General Assembly

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTERSPEECH 2006
Pittsburgh, USA
Agenda
1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of
the 2005 General Assembly (Lisbon)
2. President's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of Reports
5. ISCA: Goals for 2006-7
6. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
7. Any Other Business
Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly in
Lisbon, Portugal, 7 September 2005, 18:00
1.
Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2004
General Assembly
2. President's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of Reports
5. Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board
6. Approval of Proposed Change to the ISCA Statutes
7. ISCA: Goals for 2005-6
8. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
9. Any Other Business
10. Handover to the New President
President’s Report
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Julia Hirschberg
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
Recent Board Meetings
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Mar. 2004: Kyoto
Oct. 2004: Jeju
May 2005: Lisbon
Sept. 2005: Lisbon
Dec. 2005: Virtual
Mar. 2006: Virtual
Jun. 2006: Virtual
Sept.2006: Pittsburgh
Secretariat and Membership
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Direct contact with members
Membership database
Financial transactions
Web content coordination
Documentation of ISCA board meetings
ISCA Statutes and Bylaws
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later:
[email protected]
David House
ISCA Secretary
Manu Foxonet
Administrative
Assistant
Membership Development
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Membership Services
• Movement of website and underlying data (such
as archive) to public ASP – ModelFX
• Enhancement of website membership services
– Direct production of spreadsheets from database
queries
– Automatic email notification of membership expiration
– Better SPAM protection
– Password generation and updating facility
– Revalidation of information pages such as ISCA
medalist lists
– Administrative features (additional membership
database queries)
Michael Picheny
Membership Services
• Survey: 183 respondents to date
– 26% familiar with services on ISCA website, 33% frequently use
archive, 20% look at website features other than ISCApad and
archive
– 60% access website 4 or more times a year
– 60% know about SIGs and participate. Majority of others not aware.
– 67% attend because paper accepted. 90% have attended in past.
– 83% satisfied with ISCA conferences
– Satisfaction somewhat greater with plenaries and special sessions
than with tutorials.
– 60% say conference is expensive
– 60% say number of papers fine, rest say too many
– 84% not familiar with student website
– 65% say main advantage of ISCA conference is that it is focused.
– 55% say there should be more awards, with best paper at
conference and ISCA fellows dominating
Michael Picheny
Wolfgang Hess
The ISCA Online Archive is complete
• Now contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH
and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs in
machine-readable form
• Online archive available on website
http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html
– Abstracts accessible for everybody
– Full papers accessible for members only
Wolfgang Hess
The ISCA Online Archive: Future Plans
• To create a DVD version
• To create a plurilingual glossary in speech communication
• To collect and include old, hard-to-access material
Wolfgang Hess
Thanks to Wolfgang Hess and Mathias Zeidler
for the construction and maintenance of the
ISCA Archive
ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops
(ITRWs)
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13 ITRWs organized 2005-2006
Publications
– Proceedings
– CD-ROMs
– Special Issues
Speech Communication
– Archive
Number of ISCA/ESCA workshops
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Contact ISCA for
new event proposals
[email protected]
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Year
2006
Sadaoki Furui
• Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (1st ISCA
workshop in South Africa)
• Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation
• Experimental Linguistics
• Perceptual Quality of Systems
• SAPA2006 - Statistical and Perceptual Audition
• Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
2007
• NOLISP07 – Non-Linear Speech Processing
• SSW-6 – 6th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
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
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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
– 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
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers
Program
• Sending Distinguished Lecturers to different parts of
the world when invited by a Regional Subcommittee
• Up to 3 Distinguished Lecturers to be selected for
2006/7
– First Distinguished Lecturer Tour planned for
2007
– Selection Committee: Sadaoki Furui (chair),
Louis Pols, Renato DeMori, Nelson Morgan,
Lin-shan Lee (secretary)
– Call for Nominations distributed in ISCA PAD and on
website
Sadaoki Furui
Lin-shan Lee
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
Hiroya Fujisaki
Scientific Diversity
Hiroya Fujisaki
– ISCA Board’s Recommendation on the list of topics
for INTERSPEECH conferences since 2004
– ISCA Board’s Recommendation on strategies 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
Industry Liaison
• Maintains a List of Speech R&D Companies and Speech
Technology Vendors
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multinational, national and regional companies
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provides job advertising service
• ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior R&D Managers of
Multinational Speech R&D Companies
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September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon
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September 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog
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information on ISCA‘s role in speech R&D internationally
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job market facilitation through ISCA publications and website
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emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standards
Michael Wagner
International Conferences
• Future INTERSPEECH Conferences
– 2007, Antwerp
– 2008, Brisbane
– 2009, Brighton
– Call for Proposals and proposal guidelines
available from http://www.iscaspeech.org/conferences.html (deadline for
preliminary bids, December 15th 2006)
Isabel Trancoso
• Updated INTERSPEECH reviewer list
– Please send email to
[email protected] to volunteer
• No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction as of
2009
– Location balanced across all regions
– Contents balanced between science and
technology for all conferences
Grants September 2005 -06
Jean-François
Bonastre
Total expenditure by
ISCA: 14355 E
Int.06: ~13000 E
Total: ~27355 E
~ 21% Increase
Grants: 62
(34 events)
36 for ISCA
organized events
26 for ISCA
supported events
Countries: 24
Finland
Belgium Netherland
Italy
UK
Spain
Greece
Bulgaria
Portugal
Malta
Poland Germany
France
New “special
situation” grants
Electronic only
submission
New web-based
system soon
EU
Finland
Belgium Netherland
Italy
UK
Spain
Greece
Bulgaria
Portugal
Malta
France
Poland Germany
By regions
Middle East
Asia+
Russia+
Turkey
South
America
North
America
Africa
Oceania
EU+
Switerland
Awards
Jean-François
Bonastre
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2006
Recipient: John Ohala
3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of
INTERSPEECH 2006
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the
Speech Communication Journal 2003-2005
Will be awarded at closing ceremony
Student liaison
ISCA Student Advisory Committee
Jean-François
Bonastre
• Responsible: Murat Akbacak, Christophe Van Bael,
Agustín Gravano
• New student website: http://www.isca-students.org
• Please sign up! Non-students and non-ISCA members
welcome too!
• Student events at INTERSPEECH 2006
• Panel with senior researchers on Sunday; next year:
“How to improve your presentation skills”
• Student reception tonight
Publications
 ISCApad
monthly E-newspaper
(#100 coming soon)
ISCA events, notes from
the board, job offers,
conferences, papers,
new books…
 Elsevier contacts
Speech
Communication
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
EvaHajicova
AISV
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
AVISA
SynSIG
SIGdial
SaLTMIL
Chinese SLP
INSTIL
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• 13 SIGs: Number increasing
– 2 new SIGs
• SIG on Iberian languages SIG-IL
• Indian Language Speech Processing - SIG-ILSP
• Main SIG activities:
– Organization of workshops
• SIGs Future:
– Goal: to involve SIGs more actively in the international
affairs program
Treasurer’s Report
Michael Wagner
• Excellent result for 2005
• Solid financial base for continued Interspeech
and ITRW seed funding
• Savings in Board meeting costs
• Support for new initiatives:
distinguished lecturers, website, grants,
young researcher activities
Income
2004
2005
INTERSPEECH
DONATIONS
24,870
42,280
Jeju
Lisbon
ITRW SHARES
4,040
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919
658
35,996
52,576
193
210
66,018
95,724
SALE PROCEEDINGS
MEMBERSHIP
INTEREST
TOTAL (€)
Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables
Expenditure (1)
2004
2005
SALARIES
31,391
34,243
BOARD MEETINGS
13,895
13,224
4,556
4,771
12,970
14,189
2,460
2,142
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4,918
65,272
73,487
SECRETARIAT
GRANTS
M’SHIP SERVICES
ARCHIVE
carried forward
Expenditure (2)
2004
2005
65,272
73,487
STUDENTS
3,167
1,000
W’SHOPS & GROUPS
3,200
5,033
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1,005
646
1,932
BANK COSTS
1,042
1,014
TOTAL (€)
73,327
83,471
brought forward
LIAISON & SIG
OTHER
INCOME OVER
EXPENDITURE
2004
2005
Income
66,018
95,724
Expenditure
73,327
83,471
Income over
Expenditure
-7,309
12,253
31.12.2004
31.12.2005
BANK BALANCE
60,353
101,609
RECEIVABLES
38,000
13,000
TOTAL ASSETS (€)
98,353
114,609
PAYABLES
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EQUITY (€)
98,353
114,609
Assets
Liabilities & Equity
For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2
workshops outstanding. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.
Conclusions
Michael Wagner
• ISCA is financially sound
• ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops.
• ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its
support for grants and new initiatives
Approval of Reports
• President‘s Report
• Treasurer‘s Report
Goals for 2006-7
 To expand international participation in ISCA
Distinguished Lecturers program
 To understand members’ needs better through
surveys
 To support student-centered activities
 To improve current ISCA web-based services and
create new ones
Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2007
Antwerp, Belgium, 27-31 August
Any Other Business?