22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer

SPECOM 2020


Artificial Intelligence



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SPECOM-2020 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2020)
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia, October 06-10, 2020
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2020
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
GENERAL CHAIRS
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia
CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:
Affective computing
Audio-visual speech processing
Corpus linguistics
Computational paralinguistics
Deep learning for audio processing
Feature extraction
Forensic speech investigations
Human-machine interaction
Language identification
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Sign language processing
Speaker recognition
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech and voice disorders
Speech-based applications
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech synthesis
Speech translation systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text mining and sentiment analysis
Virtual and augmented reality
Voice assistants
SATELLITE EVENT
5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 26, 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
July 03, 2020 ............ Notification of acceptance
July 17, 2020 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration
Oct 06-10, 2020 ......... Conference dates
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2020 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su
SPECOM-2020 web-site: www.specom.nw.ru/2020