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A [rede.APPIA] é a lista de distribuição de correio electrónico da APPIA, com o objectivo de divulgar notícias de interesse para a comunidade científica da Inteligência Artificial, disponível através do endereço rede [at] appia [ponto] pt.

[rede.APPIA] IberSPEECH 2024 (Aveiro, November 11-13, 2024) – CALL FOR PAPERS

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IberSPEECH’2024 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal), from 11 to 13 November 2024. The IberSPEECH event –the seventh of its kind using this name– brings together the XIII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the IX Iberian SLTech Workshop events.

Following with the tradition of previous editions, IberSPEECH’2024 will be a three-day event, planned to promote interaction and discussion. There will be a wide variety of activities: technical papers presentations, keynote lectures, presentation of projects, laboratories activities, recent PhD thesis, entrepreneurship & discussion panels, and awards to the best thesis and papers.

You can find all the information at https://iberspeech.tech.

Important Dates

Regular Papers

Submission opens: June 14th, 2024
Submission abstract deadline: July 12th, 2024
Submission full paper deadline: July 19th, 2024
Paper notifications sent: September 20th, 2024
Camera-ready paper due: September 29th, 2024

Special Sessions (including Projects, Demos, PhD Theses & Entrepreneurship)

Special Sessions proposals: end of April 2024

Contributions: October 7th, 2024
Full-Paper: October 14th, 2024

Albayzin Evaluations 2024

Selection of evaluation proposals: April 19th, 2024

Opening of registration for the evaluation: May 20th, 2024

Release of training and development data: June 3rd, 2024

Registration deadline for the evaluation: July 31st ,2024

Release of evaluation data: September 2nd ,2024

Deadline for the submission of system outputs: October 18th, 2024

System results distributed to participants: October 31st, 2024

Official results presented publicly and published: November 12th, 2024

IberSPEECH 2024 Albayzin Evaluations special session in Aveiro: November 12th, 2024

Conference IBERSPEECH’2024

Conference Starts: Monday, November 11th, 2024
Conference Ends: Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

Topics

The topics of interest regarding processing Iberian languages include, but are not limited to:

1. Speech technology and applications

1. Spoken language generation and synthesis

2. Speech and speaker recognition

3. Speaker diarization

4. Speech enhancement

5. Speech processing and acoustic event detection

6. Spoken language understanding

7. Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems

8. Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech

9. Systems for speech translation

10. Applications for aged and handicapped persons

11. Applications for learning and education

12. Emotions recognition and synthesis

13. Language and dialect identification

14. Applications for learning and education

15. Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders

16. Speech technology and applications: other topics

2. Human speech production, perception, and communication

1. Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language

2. Phonetics, phonology, and morphology

3. Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon

4. Paralinguistic and non-linguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)

5. Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

3. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications

1. Natural language generation and understanding

2. Retrieval and categorization of natural language documents

3. Summarization mono and multi-document

4. Extraction and annotation of entities, relations, and properties

5. Creation and processing of ontologies and vocabularies

6. Machine learning for natural language processing

7. Shallow and deep semantic analysis: textual entailment, anaphora resolution, paraphrasing

8. Multi-lingual processing for information retrieval and extraction

9. Natural language processing for information retrieval and extraction

10. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications: other topics

4. Speech, Language and Multimodality

1. Multimodal Interaction

2. Sign Language

3. Handwriting recognition

4. Audiovisual language processing

5. Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

5. Resources, standardization, and evaluation

1. Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools

2. Spoken language evaluation and standardization

3. NLP resources, annotation, tools

4. NLP evaluation and standardization

5. Multimodal resources, annotation, and tools

6. Multimodal evaluation and standardization

7. Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

 

Paper Submission

Regular Papers must be written in English and submission will be online. Papers must be submitted in PDF following the Interspeech 2024 format (more information at https://interspeech2024.org/author-resources/ ). Papers can have a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references and acknowledgments. There is no minimum length requirement for papers of the special sessions project review and demos. Aligned with Interspeech adoption of “Double-blind review”, IberSPEECH submissions must be blind.

Upon acceptance, at least one author per paper will be required to register (full & early) and present the paper at the conference.

 

Committees

 

General Chairs

Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Carlos David Martínez Hinarejos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

 

Technical Program Chair

Eduardo Lleida, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

 

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Carmen Garcia Mateo, U Vigo, Spain

Eva Navas, University of the Basque Country, UPV- EHU, Spain

José Andrés González López, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Francesc Alías Pujol, La Salle — Universitat Ramon LLull, Spain

Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Luis Fernando D’Haro, UPM, Spain

 

Special Sessions Chairs

Dayana Ribas, University of Zaragoza, Spain

 

Evaluation Chairs

Eduardo Lleida Solano, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, GTTS, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Javier Tejedor Noguerales, BIOLAB, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain

Doroteo Torre Toledano, AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

 

Local Committee

Catarina Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ana Rocha, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Nuno Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Bernardo Marques, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Mário Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Fábio Barros, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal (Webmaster)

Gabriel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

[rede.APPIA] DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar – 19 March – Conceição Amado – Principal Axis Analysis

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DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar

Tuesday, 19 March, 11:30 (GMT)

Speaker

Conceição Amado

Department of Mathematics and CEMAT, IST, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal

 

Title

Principal Axis Analysis: an exploratory data analysis tool

Principal Axis Analysis is a statistical technique that rotates standardised principal components in order to effectively identify subgroup patterns. This rotation is performed based on the preferred directions found in the spherised data. Therefore, it is a highly effective computer technique for analysing data in order to identify combinations of elliptically contoured distributions. We outline the methodology and illustrate it with examples. 

(Joint work with Frank Critchley and Ana M. Pires)


More information at

pdf icon DaSSWeb-ConceicaoAmado-19March2024.pdf

[rede.APPIA] Convite para o debate “A Inteligência Artificial e o Futuro da Língua Portuguesa” a 15/3 na PROPOR 2024

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CONVITE

Convidamos para o debate sobre

A Inteligência Artificial e o Futuro da Língua Portuguesa

que terá lugar no dia 15 de março de 2024, das 10h30 às 12h00 (hora de Lisboa)
no âmbito da PROPOR 2024 – 16ª Conferência Internacional sobre o Processamento
Computacional da Língua Portuguesa.

Sendo uma sessão plenária desta conferência, contará com a contribuição
dos investigadores científicos especialistas deste domínio aqui reunidos.

Contará também com a contribuição de convidados que são peritos na área
das políticas públicas para a promoção da língua e que ajudarão a lançar o debate:

Ana Paula Laborinho
Anteriora Presidente do Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua,
atual Diretora em Portugal da OEI Organização de Estados Ibero-Americanos,
e professora na Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras

Cláudio Pinhanez
Vice-Diretor do C4AI Centro de Inteligência Artificial de São Paulo,
e investigador principal da IBM Investigação, Brasil

Ismael Gómez García
Diretor da Estratégia Digital Global da OEI

Valentín García
Secretário Geral de Política Linguística, Junta da Galiza

António Branco (moderador)
Presidente Honorário da ELRA Language Resources Association,
Diretor Geral da PORTULAN CLARIN Infraestrutura de Investigação para a Ciência
e Tecnologia da Linguagem,
e professor na Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências


As informações sobre este debate encontram-se aqui
https://propor2024.citius.gal/index.php/discussion-panel/
onde oportunamente será disponibilizada forma de se assistir remotamente.

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ENQUADRAMENTO

Desde há cerca de um ano que é raro o dia em que não nos deparamos
no espaço público com notícias, comentários, opiniões, entrevistas, debates, podcasts,
prognósticos, planos, pânicos, condenações, glorificações, alertas, regulamentações,
medos e esperanças sobre a Inteligência Artificial. Vivemos o privilégio,
raro na história humana, de nos encontrarmos perante as promessas e os desafios inéditos
de um transformação civilizacional induzida por um choque tecnológico de alcance
nunca antes experimentado.

Este tsunami científico e social tem origem naquele que ao longo de décadas
tem sido considerado um sub-domínio da IA da mais difícil e desafiante interdisciplinaridade.
Também designada por processamento de linguagem natural, linguística computacional,
processamento computacional da língua, etc, a tecnologia da linguagem lida
com a capacidade cognitiva mais distintivamente humana.

Nenhuma área da atividade humana ficará imune a este choque tecnológico.
Ainda menos ficará o próprio objeto da sua inquirição científica, as línguas naturais.
É oportuno realizar um debate sobre a IA e a língua portuguesa pelos próprios cientistas
especialistas nesta área e invertendo a perspectiva da análise passiva para
a da construção de uma contribuição ativa:

Qual o impacto para o futuro da língua portuguesa e para a cidadania e soberania
na era da inteligência artificial?
Qual o impacto para as políticas públicas da promoção da língua e como devem
ser estas repensadas e reconfiguradas?
Qual o impacto para as políticas públicas de promoção científica e tecnológica e
como devem as suas prioridades ser repensadas e reconfiguradas?
Qual o papel da cooperação internacional sendo a língua portuguesa um idioma
multicêntrico de projeção global?
Que devemos aprender com as respostas já avançadas em outras geografias
e para outra línguas: entre vários outros exemplos, para a vizinha língua espanhola,
com um plano de preparação da língua para a era da inteligência artificial no montante
de mil milhões de euros? etc       

A comunidade científica que se dedica à investigação sobre a tecnologia da língua portuguesa
reúne-se, desde há 30 anos, ano sim ano não, alternadamente em Portugal e no Brasil,
na conferência internacional PROPOR, que voltará a realizar-se em breve,
entre 13 e 15 de março de 2024, na primeira vez em que ocorrerá numa outra geografia:
https://propor2024.citius.gal

Com a ajuda de convidados peritos nas matérias da promoção da língua e cooperação
internacional, os investigadores científicos desta área vão procurar abrir esta reflexão
e contribuir para se encontrar respostas a estas questões num debate que se irá realizar
no dia 15 de março de 2024 entre as 10h30 e as 12h00 (hora de Lisboa).

As informações sobre este debate encontram-se aqui
https://propor2024.citius.gal/index.php/discussion-panel/
onde oportunamente será também disponibilizada a forma de se assistir remotamente
no modo que as condições técnicas permitirem.

[rede.APPIA] DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar – 5 March – Ana Pires – Will the Mendel-Fisher controversy ever end ?

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DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar

Tuesday, 5 March, 11:30 (GMT)

Speaker

Ana M. Pires

Department of Mathematics and CEMAT, IST, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal

 

Title

Will the Mendel-Fisher controversy ever end ?

In 1866 Gregor Mendel published a seminal paper containing the foundations of modern genetics. In 1936 Ronald Fisher published a statistical analysis of Mendel’s data concluding that “the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel’s expectations.” The accusation gave rise to a controversy which reached the 21st century. We were fascinated by the story and eventually did some research on it, which resulted in the publication of the paper “A Statistical Model to Explain the Mendel–Fisher Controversy” (A.M. Pires and J.A. Branco, Statistical Science, 2010). Fourteen years later we revisit the story and try to understand how it has evolved and whether or not our ideas had any impact on that evolution.

More information at

pdf icon DaSSWeb-AnaPires-5March2024.pdf

[rede.APPIA] Post-doctoral research position in Machine Learning / Data Science (NEXUS project / U. Aveiro)

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Dear Colleagues,


a First Level Doctorate Researcher position in AI-related areas is available at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, under the “NEXUS – Innovation Pact – Green and Digital Transition for Transport, Logistics and Mobility” project supported by the PRR – Recovery and Resilience Plan and by NextGenerationEU.

 

Learn more at https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/196356. 

Deadline: March 1, 2024

 

Kind regards,

% Luís Seabra Lopes, professor associado
% IEETA/DETI, Universidade de Aveiro
% 3810-193 Aveiro / Portugal
% www.ieeta.pt/~lsl

[rede.APPIA] EPIA 2024: First CALL FOR PAPERS

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[Apologies for multiple posting]
************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************
EPIA 2024 23rd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence September 3-6, 2024 Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo epia2024.pt/
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 23rd edition, EPIA 2024, will take place in Viana do Castelo from 3rd to 6th of September, 2024. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers, and practitioners in related disciplines.
************************************** Important Dates **************************************
1st Call-for-papers: March, 15 2024 Paper submission deadline: Apr 30, 2024 Notification of paper acceptance: Jun 15, 2024 Camera-ready papers deadline: Jul 15, 2024 Conference dates: September 3-6, 2024
************************************** Thematic Tracks ************************************** EPIA 2024 will feature the following thematic tracks covering a wide spectrum of AI topics:
AIC – AI and Creativity AmIA – Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments AIoTA – Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture AIL – Artificial Intelligence and Law AI4IS – Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies AIM – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIPES – Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems AITS – Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems ERAI – Ethics and Responsibility in AI GAI – General Artificial Intelligence GenAI – Generative AI – Foundations and Applications IROBOT – Intelligent Robotics KDBI – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence NLP-TeMA – Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications DCenAI – Data-Centric AI – Solutions and Emerging Technologies KRR – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
************************************** Submission and Reviewing **************************************
– All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2024 EasyChair submission page easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2024 – Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, with a maximum of 12 pages. However, you should consider any track-specific details in your submission. – Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. – Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
************************************** Proceedings and Presentations ************************************** – Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (as in previous editions, the publication of a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence is expected), as long as at least one author is registered in EPIA 2024 by the deadline advance registration. – EPIA 2024 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. – Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.
************************************** Awards **************************************
The conference will grant the following awards: * Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference * Best Application Paper, for the best application paper presented at the conference * Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference where the first author is a student (to confirm)
Important: only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.
********************************* EPIA 2024 Committees *********************************
Event and Program Chairs Manuel Filipe Santos, Universidade do Minho, ALGORITMI/LASI José Machado, Universidade do Minho, ALGORITMI/LASI Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, ALGORITMI/LASI Paulo Cortez, Universidade do Minho, ALGORITMI/LASI Pedro Moreira, ESTG, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
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[rede.APPIA] Curso CLAD Deep Learning

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Divulgamos o próximo curso CLAD

 

Introduction to Deep Learning

 

que terá lugar no próximo dia 16 de Março, online (via Zoom).

 

O curso é da responsabilidade da Prof. Mário Figueiredo, do IST, Univ. de Lisboa.
Mais informação em anexo.

 

Os interessados deverão preencher a ficha de inscrição aqui.

 

Lembramos que os cursos CLAD são gratuitos para sócios CLAD com a quota em dia (incluindo 2024).
O número de inscrições é limitado.

 

Melhores cumprimentos,

A Direção da CLAD

pdf icon CURSOCLAD_DeepLearning_2024.pdf