Transcript ISCA 2003 General Assembly

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTERSPEECH 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
Agenda
1. Opening Remarks - 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
Minutes of the 2004 General Assembly in Jeju,
Korea, October 6, 2004, 18:00
1.
Opening Remarks and Minutes of the 2003 General
Assembly
2.
President's Report
3.
Treasurer's Report
4.
Approval of the Reports
5.
ISCA: Goals of 2004-5
6.
Demonstration on Online ISCA Proceedings Archive
7.
Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
8.
Any Other Business
President’s Report
• Recent Board Meetings
• Membership
• Secretariat and Membership
Services
• The ISCA Online Archive
• Workshops
• Scientific Diversity
• Industry Liaison
• Conferences
• Grants and Awards
• Publications
• SIGs
• Training and Education
• Others
Sadaoki Furui
Recent Board Meetings
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Secretariat and Membership
Services
• Improvements to website
– From September
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New online membership database
Password-protected section
Members’ archive
Student Section
Valerie Hazan
ISCA Secretary
– In development
• Weblog
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Manu Foxonet
(Administrative
Assistance)
Membership structure
• New joint membership option with AISV
(Italian Association for Voice Sciences)
• Proposal to permit non-member registration
at future INTERSPEECH conferences (with
no obligatory ISCA membership)
Board Structure
• 2005 Elections
– Decision to reduce Board size from 13 to 11
– Second term expired for 4 Board members, first
term expired for 3 Board members, one member
resigned
– Elections held in June/July 2005
– Six new Board members elected
• Decision to form Committees (e.g. for
membership services and international affairs)
to support the work of the Board
Plans for Regions/International
Affairs
Lin-shan Lee
• “International Affairs Committee” will be organized
– 2 or 3 members from each region (North America, Europe,
Asia and all other areas for example)
– Chaired by a board member
• Example functions of the committee
– Extending ISCA services to all parts of the world
– Distributing information about ISCA services (archives,
membership fee structure, web-based services, etc.),
establishing SIGs/chapters in different areas, sponsoring
local events, organizing distinguished lecturer program, etc.
Wolfgang Hess
The ISCA Online Archive
• To contain all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs in machinereadable form
• Online archive available on website since August 2003
http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html
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Abstracts accessible for everybody
Full papers accessible for members only
User name: ISCA_Archive (case sensitive)
Password: mInd_it$ [to be changed in January 2006]
Archive
Structure
Main Page
Abstract/Paper
Event Page
Wolfgang Hess
The ISCA Online Archive: Current Contents
• Eleven INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP)
Conferences with 7850 papers
• 55 ITRW‘s and ETRW‘s with 2282 papers
• Six ISCA-supported events with 604 papers
• Last Update: August 19, 2005, with EUROSPEECH’95
• In total: 72 events, 10736 papers, 3.48 GByte of disk space
After leaving the Board, Wolfgang Hess will continue
working as archive coordinator.
Wolfgang Hess
The ISCA Online Archive: Still Under Work
• INTERSPEECH 2004: full papers will be released soon
• ICSLP 90, 92, 94; EUROSPEECH 89 and 91: to be edited.
• Four ETRW‘s from 1992 and earlier
The ISCA Online Archive: Future Plans
• To complete scanning and editing of all ISCA conferences
and I(E)TRW‘s before next INTERSPEECH
• To create a DVD version once the archive is complete
• To create a plurilingual glossary in speech communication
• To collect and include old, hard-to-access material
Rolf Carlson
ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops
(ITRWs)
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Number of ISCA/ESCA workshops
• 12 ITRWs organized 2004-2005
• Publications
– Proceedings
– CD-ROMs
– Special Issues
Speech Communication
– Archive
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• Contact ISCA for
new event proposals
[email protected]
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Rolf Carlson
Non-linear Speech Processing 05: Nolisp05
Plasticity in Speech perception (PSP2005)
Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Biennial on DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems
Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DISS'05)
Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments
2006
• First ISCA workshop in South Africa:
Multilingual Speech and Language Processing
• Odyssey 2006
• SAPA2006 - Statistical and Perceptual Audition
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 2004, 2005, and 2006
– 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
• Established a Reference List of Speech R&D
Companies
– multinational, national and regional companies
Michael Wagner
• First ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior R&D
Managers of Multinational Speech R&D Companies
– September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog
– ISCA‘s role as an international speech research organisation
– development of speech technology standards
– independent evaluations and facilitation of quality issues
– job market facilitation and many more...
International Conferences
• Future INTERSPEECH Conferences
Julia Hirschberg
– 2006, Pittsburgh
– 2007, Antwerp
– 2008, Brisbane
– 2009 Call for Proposals and proposal guidelines
available from http://www.iscaspeech.org/conferences.html (deadline for
preliminary bids, 12/15/05)
• Updated INTERSPEECH reviewer list
– Please send email to
[email protected] to volunteer
• Membership conference survey (Fall
2004) highlights
– 95% who attended INTERSPEECH 2004
were satisfied with the conference
• 68% thought balance between science and
technology was good or excellent
– 62% thought ISCA membership should be
linked to conference/workshop registration
(vs. 30% who thought not)
– See www.iscaspeech.org/conferences.html for more...
– Fall 2005 survey will be conducted after
this conference
Grants 2005 (Jan 1 – Aug 31)
Total expenditure by
ISCA and
INTERSPEECH:
22,500 EUR
Grants: 81 (61 by
ISCA and 20 by
INTERSPEECH
2005)
Countries: 27
18.9% Increase in
grants and big
increase in
applications
George Kokkinakis
Number of grants awarded by country
USA, 6
Australia, 8
Belarus, 1
UK, 5
Brazil, 1
Turkey, 1
Canada, 2
The Netherlands, 1
Taiwan, 1
China, 8
Spain, 3
Russia, 3
Croatia, 1
Poland, 2
Czech Republic, 1
Morocco, 1
Estonia, 6
Lithuania, 3
Ethiopia, 1
Japan, 4
Finland, 2
Israel, 1
India, 8
Hungary, 2
Greece, 2
France, 4
Germany, 3
Awards
George Kokkinakis
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
• 2005 Recipient: Graeme Clark, Australia
ISCA Award for the Best Student Paper of
INTERSPEECH 2005
• Recipient(s): To be announced at the closing ceremony
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the
Speech Communication Journal 2002-2004
• Recipient(s): To be announced at the closing ceremony
Publications
 ISCApad
monthly E-newspaper
(last issue: #86):
ISCA life, job offers,
conferences, under print
papers,…
 Elsevier contacts
Speech
Communication
Chris Wellekens
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
AVISA
SIGdial
EvaHajicova
SynSIG
SaLTMIL
Chinese SLP
INSTIL
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
11 SIGs
• The number of SIGs is increasing:
– a new SIG established: Italian AISV
– one SIG in-creation: SIG on Iberian languages
– one SIG being negotiated: regional SIG in India
• The main activities of SIGs: organization of
workshops
• Plans: to involve SIGs more actively in the
programme of INTERSPEECH
Training and Education
• Student Advisory Committee (SAC) (7 PhD students from
6 countries) started its work in 2004
– Aims: Expanding membership services for students
and establishing better communication between
students
– Currently developing the Student Section of the ISCA
website, which is planned to be a lively heart of the
ISCA student community
– Starting version of Student Section of the ISCA
website [www.isca-students.org] launched, new
features (e.g., discussion forum) are planned to be
added in the near future
Gerrit Bloothooft
Treasurer’s Report
• continued financial stability
• membership fee 50 -> 55 euro in 2006
• growth in support new inititiatives
(web, student committee, workshops)
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
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1995
Assets 31/12
200.000
150.000
100.000
50.000
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Income
2003
2004
INTERSPEECH
DONATIONS
37.980
24.870
Geneva
Jeju
ITRW SHARES
1.395
4.040
613
919
52.132
35.996
1.633
193
93.753
66.018
SALE PROCEEDINGS
MEMBERSHIP
INTEREST
TOTAL (€)
Expenditures
SALARIES
BOARD MEETINGS
SECRETARIAT
GRANTS
MEMBERSH. SERVICES
CONTINGENCY
VARIOUS
BANK COSTS
TOTAL (€)
2003
2004
37.083
11.044
6.932
31.391
13.895
4.556
9.011
7.736
181
12.970
2.460
646
533
72.520
1.042
66.960
Gerrit Bloothooft
Conclusions
• ISCA is financially sound
• Don’t hesitate to ask for financial support for
your initiatives
Approval of Reports
• President‘s Report
• Treasurer‘s Report
Changes to the ISCA Board
President: Julia Hirschberg
Vice-president: Isabel Trancoso
New members:
Jean-Francois Bonastre (France)
David House (Sweden)
Michael Picheny (USA)
Isabel Trancoso (Portugal)
Continuing members: Hiroya Fujisaki, Sadaoki Furui,
Eva Hajicova, Julia Hirschberg, Lin-shan Lee, Michael
Wagner, Chris Wellekens
Retiring members: Gerrit Bloothooft, Rolf Carlson,
Valerie Hazan, Hynek Hermansky, Wolfgang Hess,
George Kokkinakis
Changes to ISCA Statutes
• Why?
– ISCA is a non-profit association regulated by
French law
– Need to avoid ambiguities that could make
ISCA liable to income tax
New Statutes
A2.1 ISCA est une association à but non-lucratif. L'objet de l'association est de
promouvoir dans un contexte international, à l'échelle mondiale, les activités et les
échanges dans tous les domaines des sciences et des technologies de la
communication parlée. Elle s'adresse à toutes les personnes (physiques et morales)
qui s'intéressent aux recherches fondamentales et aux développements
technologiques visant à décrire, à expliquer et à reproduire les différents aspects de
la communication humaine par la parole, notamment et sans que cette liste soit
limitative, la phonétique, la linguistique, la reconnaissance de la parole par
ordinateur et sa synthèse, la compression de la parole, la reconnaissance du
locuteur, aides au diagnostic médical de pathologies de la phonation, …
A2.1 ISCA is a non-profit organization. The purpose of the association is to promote, in
an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to
speech communication science and technology. The association is aimed at all
persons and institutions interested in fundamental research and technological
developments that aim at describing, explaining and reproducing the various
aspects of human communication by speech, for example, phonetics, linguistics,
computer speech recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker
recognition, aids to the medical diagnosis of voice pathologies, …
New Statutes
A2.2 L'association tentera d'atteindre ses objectifs :a) en stimulant l'animation de la
communauté scientifique et académique; b) en facilitant la coordination de
manifestations scientifiques (conférences, expositions, ateliers, etc..) ; c) en
encourageant des actions de diffusion des connaissances et des informations
(écoles saisonnières, lettres d'information périodiques, site Internet, etc...) ; d) en
soutenant la publication et la diffusion de travaux scientifiques spécialisés ; e) en
promouvant la diversité des thèmes de recherche et des langues étudiées ; f) en
favorisant les échanges scientifiques ; g) en coopérant avec d'autres organisations ;
h) en encourageant les relations entre le monde de la recherche et le secteur
industriel ; i) en stimulant et en accompagnant les initiatives locales, régionales et
globales ; j) par toute autre action d'intérêt général pour la communauté scientifique
et technologique du domaine de la communication parlée.
A2.2 The association will try to achieve its goals: a) by stimulating activities by the
scientific and academic community ; b) by facilitating the coordination of scientific
events (conferences, exhibitions, workshops, etc...) ; c) by encouraging actions for
disseminating knowledge and information (summer schools, regular newsletters,
website, etc...) ; d) by supporting the publication and the dissemination of
specialised scientific work ; e) by promoting the diversity of research themes and
languages studied ; f) by facilitating scientific exchanges ; g) by cooperating with
other organizations ; h) by encouraging relations between research and industry ; i)
by stimulating and collaborating in local, regional and global initiatives ; j) by any
other activities of general interest for the scientific and technological community, in
the field of speech communication.
ISCA: Goals for 2005-6
 To expand international participation in ISCA
 To expand role of members in ISCA initiatives
 To support student-centered activities
 To increase cooperation with industry
 To introduce new ISCA web-based services
 To complete archive of past ISCA proceedings
Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2006 – ICSLP
Pittsburgh, 17-22 September
Any Other Business?
Handover to the new
ISCA President
Julia Hirschberg