Transcript ISCA 2003 General Assembly

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTERSPEECH 2008
Brisbane, Australia
Agenda
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
Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly in Antwerp,
Belgium, 29 August 2007, 6:15 pm
1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes
of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh)
2. President's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of Reports
5. Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board
6. ISCA: Goals for 2007-8
7. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
8. Any Other Business
9. Handover to the New President
President’s Report
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The ISCA Board
Recent Board Meetings
Secretariat and Membership
Membership Services and Web
The ISCA Online Archive
Workshops
International Affairs
Industry Liaison
Liaison with other Organizations
Conferences
Grants and Awards
Student Liaison
Publications
SIGs
Others
Isabel Trancoso
President
ISCA Board
President::
Isabel Trancoso
Ex officio
Vice-Pres. / ITWRs:
Jean-François Bonastre
Grants & Awards:
Alan Black
Membership Services:
Eva Hajicova
SIGs:
Michael Picheny
Liaison w/ other orgs:
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Secretary:
David House
Treasurer:
Bernd Möbius
International Affairs: Education / Website:
Lin-shan Lee
Helen Meng
Conferences:
Tanja Schultz
Ex-President::
Julia Hirschberg
Archive
Wolfgang Hess
ISCApad::
Chris Wellekens
Recent Board Meetings
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June 2008:
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Antwerp (2)
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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
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Membership Services and Web
• Support for applications, updates, renewals and password
requests
Eva Hajicova
Helen Meng
Membership Services and Web
• Member survey online
Eva Hajicova
Web: Maintenance and Updates
• Ongoing revamp including
– Membership services support
– Online forms
– Facilities for webpage updates
– Undertaken by Matt Bridger
(Mdb Web & Data Solutions)
• Information updates
– Emmanuelle Foxonet, ISCA administrator
Helen Meng
The ISCA Online Archive
Wolfgang Hess
• Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987
to 2008 in machine-readable form
• 100 events (currently more than 10 per year)
• 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 Tutorial & Research Workshops
(ITRWs)
Jean-François
Bonastre
2008
New service package
• 5 ITRWs
(soon to be available)
• 11 other wrk/conf.
co-sponsored
– Secretariat support
– Online banking service
– Online registration
– Small monetary advance
– Web/Mail announcement
Contact ISCA for new
event proposals
[email protected]
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-> Charge per participant per
workshop day
ISCA organized events
Jean-François
Bonastre
2008
• Odyssey, January 2008, South Africa – SPLC
• Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge
Discovery, June 2008, Denmark
• Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, August 2008, Greece
• SAPA (ITRW on Statistical And Perceptual Audition) , September
2008, Australia
• AVSP (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing), September 2008,
Australia
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• SLATE (Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in
Education ), September 2009, UK
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SLTU'08, May 2008 (Vietnam) - SALTMIL
HSCMA 2008, May 2008 (Italy)
Speech Prosody 2008 – May 2008, (Brazil) - SPROSIG
LREC 2008 - May, 2008, (Morocco) - SALTMIL
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08, June 2008 (France) - AFCP
YRRSDS 2008, June, 2008 (SAC)
PROPOR 2008 , September 2008 (Portugal) - SIGIL
WOCCI2008, October 2008 (CRETE/GREECE)
Workshop/Summer school dedicated to the memory of Christian
Benoît, October 2008 (France)
• VJTH’2008 , November 2008 (Spain) - SIGIL
• SLT 2008, December 2008 (India) – ILSP
• NOLISP 09 - June 2009 , Spain
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
– 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
– Developing ISCA relationships with relevant sister associations in their
regions
Sadaoki Furui
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 in Dec 2008
• Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2008
Lin-shan Lee
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 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh
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September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog
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job market facilitation through ISCA publications, website, and
conference session sponsorships
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emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standard
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Dissemination of educational materials and open software
Michael Picheny
Liaison with other Organizations
• Liaison with organizations in speech and language
– ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV and ASJ
– Encouragement of joint activities
– Representation in NAACL&HLT
– Agreements for discounts on membership fees
• New partnership
– ASSTA (Australasian Speech Science and Technology
Association)
Yoshinori Sagisaka
International Conferences
• Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences
– 2009, Brighton, UK
– 2010, Makuhari, Japan
– 2011, Florence, Italy
– Call for Proposals and guidelines available
http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html
(deadline: November 15th 2008)
• Call for volunteers reviewers
Tanja Schultz
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INTERSPEECH 2009
Brighton, UK
“Speech and Intelligence”
6-10 Sept.
“Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless
of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”
Grants September 2007-08
Alan W Black
Total expenditure by
ISCA: ~16242 E
IS08: ~12000 E
Total: ~26242 E
By Country: (by institution of awardees)
USA 13, India 6, UK 6, China 4, Canada 3
Grants:54
NL 3, Aus 3, Finland 2, Germany 2, France 2
9 events
Iran, Malaya, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Thailand,
(on 6 continents)
37 for IS08
Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Dijbouti, Portugal
17 other ISCA
By Continent:
events
Countries: 21
NA: 16, Europe 17, Africa 1, SA 2, Asia 14, ANZ 2
Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51%
Awardees are:
Students
First time presentation
ISCA support event
One grant per Institution
(Exceptions sometimes made)
Please apply early through Online Application Website
Awards
Alan W Black
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2008
Recipient: Hiroya Fujisaki
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication
Journal 2005-2007
To be announced at closing ceremony
3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2008
Short list of 9: Georg Heigold, Mitchell McLaren, Yen-Liang Shue,
Peter Bell,Dongho Kim, Luciana Ferrer, Chi-Chun Lee, Michael
James Carne, Elizabeth Beach
3 winners will be announced at closing ceremony
ISCA Fellows
Eva Hajikova
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Rolf Carlson
Paul Dalsgaard
Fred Jelinek
Hiroya Fujisaki
Sadaoki Furui
Björn Granström
Julia Hirschberg
Roger Moore
Mari Ostendorf
Louis Pols
Steve Young
Victor Zue
Alan W Black
Student liaison
ISCA Student Advisory Committee
Board members:
Helen Meng
Student Liaison: Interspeech 2008
Helen Meng
• Round Table and Lunch Event
– Organizers: ISCA SAC
– Sponsors: ISCA, IS2008, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
– Dates: Tue (Sep 23) and Thur (Sep 25)
• Co-organization
– YRRSDS 2008
• Student Room Share Service
– Help students find room-mates for the IS2008 conference
– http://www.iscastudents.org/forums/forums/interspeech/interspeech_2008_roo
m_share_service
Helen Meng
Web: Online Grant Application System (OGAS)
• Thanks to the ISCA-SAC
– Especially Ebru Arisoy and Marco Piccolino-Boniforti
Online at ISCA website
• Online at ISCA website
– http://www.isca-students.org/grants
– First trial run for INTERSPEECH 2008
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
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Michael Picheny
AISV
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
SIGdial
AVISA
SynSIG
SaLTMIL
SIGRU
Chinese SLP
SLaTE
Some special activities of SIGs
• Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs
• Special issue of Speech Communication (2009) –
AVISA
• International Conferences and Workshops - e.g.
ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIG-CSLP, JEPTALN-RECITAL 2008 – AFCP, PROPOR 2008
(SIG-IL), XXXVII International Philological
Conference (SIG-RU)
• Summer Schools – WISSAP 2008 (SIG-ILSP)
• Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting
reviewers!!
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
• Emphasis on Internationalization
• Grant support increasing
• Consistent saving thanks to student Group initiatives
• More services on the website
Income
2006
2007
36,090
Antwerp
INTERSPEECH
DONATIONS
36,505
Pittsburgh
ITRW SHARES
900
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SALE PROCEEDINGS
762
483
40,130
73,159
242
2092
78,539
111,824
MEMBERSHIP
INTEREST ON SAVINGS
TOTAL (€)
Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables
Expenditure (1)
2006
2007
35,803
37,100
Board Meetings
4,504
3,749
Secretariat
3,590
3,054
13,925
12,752
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2000
5,851
9,019
63,673
67,674
Salaries
Grants
Special Interest Groups SIGs
WEB maintenance
carried forward
Expenditure (2)
2006
2007
63,673
67,674
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3,373
Workshop support
1,000
1,000
Students
2,000
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1,280
1,283
67,953
73,330
brought forward
Distinguish Lecturers
Other
Bank Costs
TOTAL (€)
INCOME OVER
EXPENDITURE
2006
2007
Income
78,539
111,824
Expenditure
67,953
73,330
Income over
Expenditure
10,586
38,494
31.12.2006
31.12.2007
BANK BALANCE
90,114
96,085
RECEIVABLES
35,000
35,000
TOTAL ASSETS (€)
90,114
96,085
PAYABLES
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EQUITY (€)
125,114
131,085
Assets
Liabilities & Equity
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.
Conclusions
• ISCA is financially sound - assets slightly growing.
• ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech
conferences and ITRW workshops.
• ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance 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
Goals for 2008-9
To stimulate international participation in ISCA
Distinguished Lecturers program
Remote access to lectures
Regional sub-committees
 To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research
To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops
To understand members’ needs better and increase community
involvement, namely by creating sub-committees
To support student-centered activities
To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones
Comments, Suggestions and
Questions from ISCA Members
Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2009
Brighton, UK, September 6-10, 2009
Any Other Business?