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GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTERSPEECH 2008
Brisbane, Australia
Agenda
1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly (Antwerp)
2. President's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Approval of Reports
5. ISCA: Goals for 2008-2009
6. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members
7. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
8. Any Other Business
1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh)
2. President's Report3. Treasurer's Report4. Approval of Reports5. Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board6. ISCA: Goals for 2007-87. Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly8. Any Other Business9. Handover to the New President
Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly in Antwerp, Belgium, 29 August 2007, 6:15 pm
President’s Report• The ISCA Board• Recent Board Meetings• Secretariat and Membership• Membership Services and Web• The ISCA Online Archive• Workshops• International Affairs• Industry Liaison• Liaison with other Organizations• Conferences• Grants and Awards• Student Liaison• Publications• SIGs• Others
Isabel TrancosoPresident
ISCA Board Ex officio
President:: Isabel Trancoso
Vice-Pres. / ITWRs:Jean-François Bonastre
Secretary:David House
Treasurer:Bernd Möbius
Conferences:Tanja Schultz
Membership Services:Eva Hajicova
International Affairs:Lin-shan Lee
SIGs:Michael Picheny
Liaison w/ other orgs:Yoshinori Sagisaka
Grants & Awards: Alan Black
Education / Website: Helen Meng
Ex-President:: Julia Hirschberg
Archive Wolfgang Hess
ISCApad:: Chris Wellekens
Recent Board Meetings
• Mar. 2006: Virtual• Jun. 2006: Virtual• Sept.2006: Pittsburgh (2)• Dec. 2006: Virtual• Jan. 2007: Virtual• April 2007: Virtual• Aug. 2007: Antwerp (2)• Dec. 2007: Virtual• June 2008: Virtual
Secretariat and Membership
• Direct contact with members• Membership database• Financial transactions and administration
– Support for ITRWs– Membership dues
• 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: [email protected]
David HouseISCA Secretary
Manu FoxonetAdministrative
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Membership Services and Web• Support for applications, updates, renewals and password
requestsEva Hajicova
Helen Meng
Membership Services and Web• Member survey online Eva Hajicova
Web: Maintenance and Updates• Ongoing revamp including
– Membership services support– Online forms– Facilities for webpage updates– Undertaken by Matt Bridger
(Mdb Web & Data Solutions)
• Information updates– Emmanuelle Foxonet, ISCA administrator
Helen Meng
The ISCA Online Archive• Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2008 in machine-readable form
• 100 events (currently more than 10 per year)• 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
Wolfgang Hess
Main Page
Event Page
Abstract/Paper
Archive Structure
ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs)
2008
• 5 ITRWs
• 11 other wrk/conf. co-sponsored
Contact ISCA for new event proposals
New service package
(soon to be available) – Secretariat support
– Online banking service
– Online registration
– Small monetary advance
– Web/Mail announcement
– (Archive)
-> Charge per participant per workshop day
Jean-François Bonastre
2008• Odyssey, January 2008, South Africa – SPLC • Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge
Discovery, June 2008, Denmark • Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, August 2008, Greece• SAPA (ITRW on Statistical And Perceptual Audition) , September
2008, Australia• AVSP (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing), September 2008,
Australia2009
• SLATE (Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education ), September 2009, UK
Jean-François Bonastre
ISCA organized events
• SLTU'08, May 2008 (Vietnam) - SALTMIL • HSCMA 2008, May 2008 (Italy)• Speech Prosody 2008 – May 2008, (Brazil) - SPROSIG • LREC 2008 - May, 2008, (Morocco) - SALTMIL • JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08, June 2008 (France) - AFCP• YRRSDS 2008, June, 2008 (SAC)• PROPOR 2008 , September 2008 (Portugal) - SIGIL• WOCCI2008, October 2008 (CRETE/GREECE)• Workshop/Summer school dedicated to the memory of Christian
Benoît, October 2008 (France) • VJTH’2008 , November 2008 (Spain) - SIGIL • SLT 2008, December 2008 (India) – ILSP • NOLISP 09 - June 2009 , Spain
Jean-François Bonastre
ISCA supported events
ISCA International Affairs CommitteeLin-shan Lee
• ISCA decided to become an international organization in 1999 in Budapest
– Events and participants in them should not be confined to limited number of countries
– ISCA International Affairs Committee tries to fulfill that mandate• Targets regions currently under-represented in ISCA programs
• Subcommittees for these regions 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 CommitteeLin-shan Lee
• Sample Action Items for the International Affairs Committee– Arranging Distinguished Lecturers Tours to give lectures in far away
regions – 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– 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 Dec 2006 for 2007-08
– Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technologies, USA South Asia in Nov 2007 and Latin America in Oct 2008
– Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Brazil in June 2007 and Southern Africa in July 2008
• One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009– Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
India in Dec 2008
• Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2008
Sadaoki Furui
Lin-shan Lee
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 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh
– September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog– job market facilitation through ISCA publications, website, and
conference session sponsorships
– emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standard
– Dissemination of educational materials and open software
Michael Picheny
Liaison with other Organizations
• Liaison with organizations in speech and language
– ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV and ASJ
– Encouragement of joint activities
– Representation in NAACL&HLT
– Agreements for discounts on membership fees
• New partnership
– ASSTA (Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association)
Yoshinori Sagisaka
International Conferences
• Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences
– 2009, Brighton, UK
– 2010, Makuhari, Japan
– 2011, Florence, Italy
– Call for Proposals and guidelines available http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (deadline: November 15th 2008)
• Call for volunteers reviewers
Tanja Schultz
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INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK 6-10 Sept.
“Speech and Intelligence”
“Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”
Grants September 2007-08Alan W Black
Total expenditure by ISCA: ~16242 E IS08: ~12000 E
Total: ~26242 E
Grants:549 events
(on 6 continents)
37 for IS08
17 other ISCA events
Countries: 21
By Country: (by institution of awardees)
USA 13, India 6, UK 6, China 4, Canada 3
NL 3, Aus 3, Finland 2, Germany 2, France 2
Iran, Malaya, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Thailand,
Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Dijbouti, Portugal
By Continent:
NA: 16, Europe 17, Africa 1, SA 2, Asia 14, ANZ 2
Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51%
Awardees are:
Students
First time presentation
ISCA support event
One grant per Institution
(Exceptions sometimes made)
Please apply early through Online Application Website
Awards
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2008 Recipient: Hiroya Fujisaki
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2005-2007
To be announced at closing ceremony
3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2008
Short list of 9: Georg Heigold, Mitchell McLaren, Yen-Liang Shue, Peter Bell,Dongho Kim, Luciana Ferrer, Chi-Chun Lee, Michael
James Carne, Elizabeth Beach3 winners will be announced at closing ceremony
Alan W Black
ISCA Fellows
• Rolf Carlson • Paul Dalsgaard • Fred Jelinek• Hiroya Fujisaki• Sadaoki Furui • Björn Granström• Julia Hirschberg• Roger Moore• Mari Ostendorf• Louis Pols• Steve Young• Victor Zue
Alan W Black
Eva Hajikova
Student liaisonISCA Student Advisory Committee
Board members:
Helen Meng
Helen MengStudent Liaison: Interspeech 2008• Round Table and Lunch Event
– Organizers: ISCA SAC– Sponsors: ISCA, IS2008, IBM TJ Watson Research Center– Dates: Tue (Sep 23) and Thur (Sep 25)
• Co-organization– YRRSDS 2008
• Student Room Share Service– Help students find room-mates for the IS2008 conference– http://www.isca-students.org/forums/forums/interspeech/
interspeech_2008_room_share_service
Helen Meng
Web: Online Grant Application System (OGAS)
• Thanks to the ISCA-SAC– Especially Ebru Arisoy and Marco Piccolino-Boniforti
Online at ISCA website • Online at ISCA website
– http://www.isca-students.org/grants– First trial run for INTERSPEECH 2008
Publications• ISCA Pad on the website
– Edited by Christian Wellekens
• Authoring tool:ISCAPad Maker– By Laurence Liu and
Helen Meng– Converts text to
structured hyperlinks for easy access
Chris Wellekens Helen Meng
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
SynSIG
Chinese SLP
AVISA
SaLTMILSIGdial
Michael Picheny
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
AISV
SLaTE
SIGRU
Some special activities of SIGs• Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs• Special issue of Speech Communication (2009) –
AVISA• International Conferences and Workshops - e.g.
ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIG-CSLP, JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2008 – AFCP, PROPOR 2008 (SIG-IL), XXXVII International Philological Conference (SIG-RU)
• Summer Schools – WISSAP 2008 (SIG-ILSP)• Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting
reviewers!!
Treasurer’s Report• Positive result for 2008 (more income but more
expenditure due to new initiatives)
• Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding
• Emphasis on Internationalization
• Grant support increasing
• Consistent saving thanks to student Group initiatives
• More services on the website
Bernd MÖBIUS
Income 2006 2007INTERSPEECH DONATIONS
36,505Pittsburgh
ITRW SHARES 900
SALE PROCEEDINGS 762
MEMBERSHIP 40,130
INTEREST ON SAVINGS 242
TOTAL (€) 78,539
Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables
36,090Antwerp
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Expenditure (1) 2006 2007Salaries 35,803 37,100
Board Meetings 4,504 3,749
Secretariat 3,590 3,054
Grants 13,925 12,752
Special Interest Groups SIGs 0 2000
WEB maintenance 5,851 9,019
carried forward 63,673 67,674
Expenditure (2) 2006 2007
brought forward 63,673 67,674
Distinguish Lecturers - 3,373
Workshop support 1,000 1,000
Students 2,000 0
Other 0 0
Bank Costs 1,280 1,283
TOTAL (€) 67,953 73,330
INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE
2006 2007
Income 78,539
Expenditure 67,953
Income over Expenditure
10,586
111,824
73,330
38,494
Assets 31.12.2006 31.12.2007
BANK BALANCE 90,114 96,085
RECEIVABLES 35,000 35,000
TOTAL ASSETS (€) 90,114 96,085
Liabilities & EquityPAYABLES - -
EQUITY (€) 125,114 131,085
For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 1 or 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2 workshops outstanding. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.
Conclusions• ISCA is financially sound - assets slightly growing.• ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech
conferences and ITRW workshops.• ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its support
for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives.
• New ideas are most welcome!
Approval of Reports
• President‘s Report
• Treasurer‘s Report
Goals for 2008-9To stimulate international participation in ISCA
Distinguished Lecturers program
Remote access to lectures
Regional sub-committees
To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research
To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops
To understand members’ needs better and increase community involvement, namely by creating sub-committees
To support student-centered activities
To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones
Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members
Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2009
Brighton, UK, September 6-10, 2009
Any Other Business?