[vihar] Re: VIHAR-2019

  • From: Robert Eklund <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: vihar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Prof. Roger K. Moore" <r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:57:44 +0200

Top of the morning.

One more thing I could easily do remotely (done it a few times before) is to be in charge of the *homepage/website*.

That is, if you accept/like "clean" designs, like *DiSS 2017*:

http://roberteklund.info/conferences/diss2017/

(KTH has taken down the official page, but the link above is its mirror on my homepage; I do such things.)

Cheers,

Robert



On 2018-09-13 18:44, Prof. Roger K. Moore wrote:

OK, it's clear from the recent enthusiastic exchanges that we need to get the VIHAR-2019 show on the road asap. This means that, as we did for VIHAR-2017, we need to set up an organising committee to take formal responsibility for the event. So, please indicate if you are willing to take on one (or more) of the following roles for VIHAR-2019:
 - General Chair
 - Technical Programme Chair(s)
 - Financial Chair
 - Local Organiser
 - Keynote(s) Chair
 - Publications Chair
 - Publicity Chair
 - Webmaster

Note that, having kicked things off in Dagstuhl and Skovde, I would be very happy for others to take the lead for VIHAR-2019. This would confirm that VIHAR has a life of its own.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes
Roger

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Prof ROGER K MOORE* BA(Hons) MSc PhD FIOA FISCA MIET

Chair of Spoken Language Processing
Vocal Interactivity Lab (VILab), Sheffield Robotics
Speech & Hearing Research Group (SPandH)
Department of Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

* Winner of the 2016 Antonio Zampolli Prize for "/Outstanding Contributions /
/to the Advancement of Language Resources & Language Technology /
/Evaluation within Human Language Technologies/"

e-mail: r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/ <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eroger/>
twitter: @rogerkmoore
Tel: +44 (0) 11422 21807
Fax: +44 (0) 11422 21810
Mob: +44 (0) 7910 073631

Editor-in-Chief: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/)
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 11:14, impepper <impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Agree with Robert...schedules fill up quickly and the sooner we
    can block out time, the better! I'm already booked for the 2nd
    week in August, the last week of September....

    Best, Irene



    On 2018-09-13 01:44, Robert Eklund wrote:

    Hi!

    This sounds great! Satelliting workshops is always beneficial.

    Havving organized a few workshops myself I've come to realise two things:

    1. Teaching academics need to long (!) heads-up in order to free up time,
       obtain/allocate time and money etc. So the sooner this is made official,
       the better.

    2. In Sweden academic semesters begin in late August (last week), and there
       is a lot or work during the first month, so my guess is that
    the later of
       your two suggest dates would work better, at least here. (Sussi might be
       of a different opinion?). However, this surely varies between countries.

    The main point above is number 1, however.

    Thanks for arranging this!

    Robert


    On 2018-09-10 12:48, Dan Stowell wrote:
    Dear all,

    Regarding VIHAR 2019 dates - as Roger mentioned, we're planning
    to tie in with the 2019 International Bioacoustics Congress
    (which will be in Brighton UK), either just before or just
    after. Therefore either:

    * Thu 29th - Fri 30th Aug 2019

    or

    * Fri 6th - Sat 7th Sep 2019

    (It could in fact be a 2-day or a 1-day event - much is still to
    be determined.) At this stage, if you send any preferences re
    those date choices directly to me, that would be useful.

    Thanks
    Dan



    On 08/09/18 02:14, impepper wrote:
    OK on my calendar...


    On 2018-09-07 09:26, Prof. Roger K. Moore wrote:

    Hi Irene,  We don't have any definitive plans for VIHAR-2019
    just now, but we are hoping to be a satellite to IBAC-2019
    which will be in Brighton, UK 31 August - 5 September 2019
    (http://www.ibac.info/meetings.html#nextibac). So it might be
    sensible to reserve slots in your diary either side of those
    dates.  Dan is our key link with IBAC, and we'll be trying to
    firm everything up as soon as we can.  Cheers, Roger
    (currently in Hyderabad, India for INTERSPEECH)
    P.S.  While I've got people's attention, INTERSPEECH-2019 is
    in Graz, Austria 15-19 September 2019:
    https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/

    On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 18:46, impepper <impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:impepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:

        What are the plans for 2019? Do we have a venue yet? My schedule
        is filling up for that summer and I want to make it to VIHAR if at
        all possible! Irene


        On 2018-09-07 09:10, Prof. Roger K. Moore wrote:

            Dear All,
            I did indeed receive this announcement, and I contacted the
            organisers to alert them to the similarity between their event
            and ours.  Apparently they were vaguely aware of VIHAR-2017,
            but they didn't explain how their description - "vocal
            communication in-and-between humans, animals, and robots" -
            came to be only one word different from VIHAR.  They have
            expressed interest in VIHAR-2019, so we can see how that might
            develop.
            All the best
            Roger

    
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            Prof ROGER K MOORE* BA(Hons) MSc PhD FIOA FISCA MIET

            Chair of Spoken Language Processing
            Vocal Interactivity Lab (VILab), Sheffield Robotics
            Speech & Hearing Research Group (SPandH)
            Department of Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
            Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK
            * Winner of the 2016 Antonio Zampolli Prize for "/Outstanding
            Contributions /
            /to the Advancement of Language Resources & Language
    Technology /
            /Evaluation within Human Language Technologies/"

            e-mail: r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
            <mailto:r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:r.k.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
            web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/
    <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eroger/>
            <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eroger/>
            twitter: @rogerkmoore
            Tel: +44 (0) 11422 21807
            Fax: +44 (0) 11422 21810
            Mob: +44 (0) 7910 073631

            Editor-in-Chief: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
    (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/)
    
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            On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 16:05, Sarah Hawkins <sh110@xxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:sh110@xxxxxxxxx>
            <mailto:sh110@xxxxxxxxx ;<mailto:sh110@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:

                Just in case you haven't seen this initiative.
                Sarah


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                *Workshop Announcement:*

                *Vocal Communication in Animals, Humans, and Robots*

                We would like to announce our upcoming Vocal Communication
                Workshop (VoCoGro), which will take place on Monday,
                October 29, 2018 at the University Medical Center
                Groningen in Groningen, Netherlands. The workshop will
                bring together many outstanding researchers and clinicians
                with diverse backgrounds who share an interest in vocal
                communication in-and-between humans, animals, and robots.
                We hope to stimulate lively discussions on theoretical
                issues, methods, and possible clinical applications from a
                multi-disciplinary perspective.

                Confirmed speakers include:

                Jan Wouters, University of Leuven, Belgium

                Matt Davis, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
                Cambridge, UK

                Carolyn McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University College
                London, UK

                Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands

                Marco Gamba, University of Torino, Italy

                Anara Sandygulova, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

                Event Details:
                Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
                Time: 9:30-17:00
                Location: Rode Zaal, University Medical Center Groningen,
                Groningen, Netherlands

                Dinner (optional): 't Feithhuis at 19:00

                Fees:

                Early-bird registration (until 5 October): 50 euros

                Late registration (until 19 October): 60 euros

                Student rate: 35 euros (using code "STUDENT" during the
                early registration period)

                Dinner (optional): 35 euros (Spots are limited, so sign up
                as early as possible if you plan to attend)

                For more info and to register, visit our website:
    https://vocogro.nl/2018/


                We hope to see you there!

                Sincerely,

                VoCoGro 2018 organizers (Terrin Tamati, Etienne Gaudrain,
                Floor Arts, Leanne Nagels, and Deniz Başkent)

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    Robert Eklund, PhD, MA, BA

    Associate Professor (Biträdande Professor) in Language, Culture and 
Phonetics
    Associate Professor (Docent/Reader/Habilitation) in Computational 
Linguistics

    Speech Technology - Linguistics - Phonetics - Neurocognition -
    Mammal Vocalization - Wildlife Conservation -
    Music - Musicology

    http://roberteklund.info
    
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Robert Eklund, PhD, MA, BA

Associate Professor (Biträdande Professor) in Language, Culture and Phonetics
Associate Professor (Docent/Reader/Habilitation) in Computational Linguistics

Speech Technology - Linguistics - Phonetics - Neurocognition -
Mammal Vocalization - Wildlife Conservation -
Music - Musicology

http://roberteklund.info
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