GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium
Agenda 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
Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 19 September 2006, 6: 30 pm 1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly (Lisbon) 2. President's Report 3. Treasurer's Report 4. Approval of Reports 5. ISCA: Goals for 2006 -7 6. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly 7. Any Other Business
President’s Report • • • • Julia Hirschberg Recent Board Meetings Secretariat and Membership Services The ISCA Online Archive Workshops International Affairs Scientific Diversity Industry Liaison Conferences Grants and Awards Student Liaison Publications SIGs Others
Recent Board Meetings • • • Sept. 2005: Lisbon (2) Dec. 2005: Virtual Mar. 2006: Virtual Jun. 2006: Virtual Sept. 2006: Pittsburgh (2) Dec. 2006: Virtual Jan. 2007: Virtual April 2007: Virtual Aug. 2007: Antwerp
Secretariat and Membership • Direct contact with members • Membership database • Financial transactions and administration – Support for ITRWs – Membership dues • • 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: secretariat@isca-speech. org Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant
Membership Development
Membership by Category
Membership 596 – 44% 434 - 3% 12 – 1% 17 – 1% 296 – 21%
Membership Services • Individual member username and password now can be used to access the Archive • Improved the re-application process for current members to on-line membership application system with integration into the back-end banking system. • Online ISCA Election • Improved web-based membership search and reporting facilities for membership administration • In Progress: – Enabling access to ISCA Archive by Google Scholar – Website re-design [on-going - completed basic design / navigation structure will put on-line shortly for consideration by Board]. Michael Picheny
The ISCA Online Archive Wolfgang Hess • Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2006 in machine-readable form • 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 Structur e Main Page Abstract/Paper Event Page
Some Numbers • 19 INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP) Conferences with 11651 papers • 65 ITRW‘s and ETRW‘s with 2664 papers • Nine ISCA-supported events with 768 papers • In total: 93 events, 15083 papers, 4. 51 GByte of disk space • New INTERSPEECH conferences, ITRW‘s, and supported events will add around 1000 papers per year • Planned: ISCA Archive on DVD. Likely to be ready in 2008.
ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs) • • 11 ITRWs organized 2006 -2007 Publications – Proceedings – CD-ROMs – Special Issues Speech Communication – Archive • 22 ISCA-supported (non-ITRW) Workshops • Contact ISCA for new event proposals workshops@isca-speech. org Sadaoki Furui
2007 • • • 2008 • • NOLISP 07 – Non-Linear Speech Processing Sadaoki Furui SSW-6 – 6 th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 8 th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue SLa. TE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education Odyssey 2008 (The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop) Workshop on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head & Neck Oncology • Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery • Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2008 • AVSP 2008 (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing)
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 Europe – ISCA International Affairs Committee tries to fulfill that mandate • Targets regions currently under-represented in ISCA programs • Establishing Subcommittees for these regions to initiate region-specific efforts – – 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 – 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 – Arranging Distinguished Lecturers Tours to give lectures in their region – Developing ISCA relationships with relevant sister associations in their regions
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program • 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 by the end of 2006 for 2007 -08 – Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technologies, USA Ø first lecture tour going to South Asia in Nov 2007 – Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Ø first lecture tour to Brazil in June 2007 • Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2007 Sadaoki Furui Lin-shan Lee
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 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 conferences since 2004 – 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 d. Advisory Committee on Scientific Diversity
Industry Liaison • Maintains a List of Speech R&D Companies and Speech Technology Vendors – multinational, national and regional companies – provides job advertising service • ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior R&D Managers of Multinational Speech R&D Companies – September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon – September 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh • Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog – information on ISCA‘s role in speech R&D internationally – job market facilitation through ISCA publications and website – emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standards Michael Wagner
International Conferences • Future INTERSPEECH Conferences Isabel Trancos – 2008, Brisbane, Australia – 2009, Brighton, UK – 2010, Makuhari, Japan – 2011 - Call for Proposals and guidelines available http: //www. isca-speech. org/conferences. html (deadline: November 15 th 2007) • No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction • Call for volunteers reviewers
Brisbane, Australia, 22 -26 Sept.
INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK “Speech and Intelligence” 6 -9 Sept.
“Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc. ”
Grants September 2006 -07 Total expenditure by ISCA: ~13500 E Int. 07: ~10600 E Total: ~24100 E Grants: 54 (7 events) 41 for IS-07 13 for other ISCA events Countries: 23 Jean-François Bonastre
Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2007 Recipient: Victor Zue ISCA Medal for Service 2007 Recipient: Wolfgang Hess Jean-François Bonastre ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2004 -2006 (Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Rob Schapire) 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2007 Philippe Dreuw « Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System » Chao Qin « An Empirical Investigation of the Nonuniqueness in the Acoustic-to. Articulatory Mapping » A. W. Black B. Granstrom C. H. Lee E. Shriberg Patrick Lucey « A Unified Approach to Multi-Pose Audio-Visual ASR » Jury: A. Cutler J. Hansen J. Mariani R. Stern P. Dalsgaard L. Lamel R. K. Moore B. Z. Yuan
Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Jean-François Bonastre • Currently 5 board members, 6 student volunteers, … growing every month • After serving 2 terms, Murat and Christophe are leaving the board. Marco and Antonio became board members after their experience as student volunteers.
Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Jean-François Bonastre Last year’s progress: • Website improved significantly with new components, over 200 users. • ISCA archive indexed under Google Scholar in collaboration with Google and David Gelbart from ICSI. Increased visibility of ISCA archive and citation. • Educational Series (seminars, panel discussions) @ every Interspeech (last year: how to find your dream job? , this year: how to improve your presentation skills? ), new events coming at following Interspeech conferences… • Transcription of last year’s panel discussion uploaded on the web
Publications q ISCApad monthly E-newspaper (last issue: #110): ISCA life, job offers, conferences, under print papers, new books… q Elsevier contacts Speech Communication ISCApad number 110 July 31 st, 2007 Editorial Dear Members, Due to holidays, this August issue is delivered a little bit earlier in order that all announcements are not too much delayed and are available before Interspeech. See you there and be prepared to attend our general assembly in Antwerp with many questions and constructive comments. Christian Wellekens TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ISCA News 2. SIG's activities 3. Courses, internships 4. Books, databases, softwares 5. Job openings 6. Journals 7. Future Interspeech Conferences 8. Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) 9. Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA 10. Future Speech Science and technology events
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Eva. Hajicova AISV SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFC P AVISA Syn. SIGdial Sa. LTMIL Chinese SLP SLa. TE
Some special activities of SIGs • Special session at Interspeech - proposed by SALTMIL • International Conferences and Workshops - e. g. SP 2006 organized by SPro. SIG • Special issue of Speech Communication – SIG-IL • Summer Schools - AISV • Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs • Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!
Treasurer’s Report Chris Wellekens • Positive result for 2006 (less income but less expenditure) • Regular financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding • Considerable savings in Board meeting costs (4 teleconference meeting - 1 regular ) • Plans done for new initiatives in 2007 -8: distinguished lecturers, website, grants, student activities
Income INTERSPEECH DONATIONS ITRW SHARES SALE PROCEEDINGS MEMBERSHIP INTEREST TOTAL (€) 2005 2006 42, 280 36, 505 Lisbon Pittsburgh - 900 658 762 52, 576 40, 130 210 242 95, 724 78, 539 Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables
Expenditure (1) 2005 2006 SALARIES 34, 243 35, 803 MEETINGS 13, 224 4, 504 4, 771 3, 590 14, 189 13, 925 7, 060 0 - 5, 851 73, 487 63, 673 SECRETARIAT GRANTS M’SHIP SERVICES/ARCHIVE WEBSITE carried forward
Expenditure (2) 2005 2006 73, 487 63, 673 STUDENTS 1, 000 2, 000 W’SHOPS & GROUPS 5, 033 1, 000 LIAISON & SIG 1, 005 0 OTHER 1, 932 0 BANK COSTS 1, 014 1, 280 TOTAL (€) 83, 471 67, 953 brought forward
INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE 2005 2006 Income 95, 724 78, 539 Expenditure 83, 471 67, 953 Income over Expenditure 12, 253 10, 586
31. 12. 2005 31. 12. 2006 101, 609 90, 114 13, 000 35, 000 114, 609 125, 114 PAYABLES - - EQUITY (€) 114, 609 125, 114 Assets BANK BALANCE RECEIVABLES TOTAL ASSETS (€) Liabilities & Equity For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 1 or 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2 workshops outstanding. Assets >€ 82 k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.
Conclusions Chris Wellekens • ISCA is financially sound • ISCA will continue to provide loans for Inter- speech conferences and ITRW workshops • ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its support for grants, Distinguished Lecturer travel, and new initiatives
Approval of Reports • President‘s Report • Treasurer‘s Report
Goals for 2007 -8 Ø To expand international participation in ISCA ØDistinguished Lecturers program ØRegional sub-committees Ø To understand members’ needs better through surveys and increase community involvement Ø To support student-centered activities Ø To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones
Changes to the ISCA Board President: Isabel Trancoso New members: Alan Black (USA), Helen Meng (China), Bernd Möbius (Germany), Yoshinori Sagisaka (Japan), Tanja Schultz (Germany) Continuing members: Jean-Francois Bonastre, Eva Hajicova, David House, Lin-shan Lee, Michael Picheny, Isabel Trancoso Retiring members: Hiroya Fujisaki, Sadaoki Furui, Julia Hirschberg, Michael Wagner, Chris Wellekens
Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2008 Brisbane, Australia, September 22 -26, 2008
Any Other Business?
Handover to the new ISCA President Isabel Trancoso
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