23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer

SPECOM 2021


Human Computer Interaction



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SPECOM-2021 – CALL FOR PAPERS
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23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021)
September 27-30, 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, 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 EVENTS
6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2021: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2021
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 8-12 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 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=specom2021
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.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 31, 2021 ............ Submission of full papers
July 12, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance
July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers
July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration
Sept 27-30, 2021 ........ Conference dates
GENERAL CHAIRS
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Moscow, Russia
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2021 Secretariat
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su
Web: www.specom.nw.ru/2021