GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2006 Pittsburgh USA Agenda 1
GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2006 Pittsburgh, USA
Agenda 1. Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly (Lisbon) – President's Report – Treasurer's Report – Approval of Reports – ISCA: Goals for 2006 -7 – Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly – Any Other Business
Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal, 7 September 2005, 18: 00 1. – – – – – Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2004 General Assembly President's Report Treasurer's Report Approval of Reports Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board Approval of Proposed Change to the ISCA Statutes ISCA: Goals for 2005 -6 Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly Any Other Business Handover to the New President
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 • • Mar. 2004: Oct. 2004: May 2005: Sept. 2005: Dec. 2005: Mar. 2006: Jun. 2006: Sept. 2006: Kyoto Jeju Lisbon Virtual Pittsburgh
Secretariat and Membership • • • Direct contact with members Membership database Financial transactions Web content coordination Documentation of ISCA board meetings ISCA Statutes and Bylaws Please give us input and suggestions either this week at the ISCA Booth or later: secretariat@isca-speech. org David House ISCA Secretary Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant
Membership Development
Membership by Category
Membership Services • Movement of website and underlying data (such as archive) to public ASP – Model. FX • Enhancement of website membership services – Direct production of spreadsheets from database queries – Automatic email notification of membership expiration – Better SPAM protection – Password generation and updating facility – Revalidation of information pages such as ISCA medalists – Administrative features (additional membership database queries) Michael Picheny
Membership Services • Survey: 183 respondents to date – 26% familiar with services on ISCA website, 33% frequently use archive, 20% look at website features other than ISCApad and archive – 60% access website 4 or more times a year – 60% know about SIGs and participate. Majority of others not aware. – 67% attend because paper accepted. 90% have attended in past. – 83% satisfied with ISCA conferences – Satisfaction somewhat greater with plenaries and special sessions than with tutorials. – 60% say conference is expensive – 60% say number of papers fine, rest say too many – 84% not familiar with student website – 65% say main advantage of ISCA conference is that it is focused. – 55% say there should be more awards, with best paper at conference and ISCA fellows dominating Michael Picheny
Wolfgang Hess The ISCA Online Archive is complete • Now contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs in machine-readable form • Online archive available on website http: //www. isca-speech. org/archive/index. html – Abstracts accessible for everybody – Full papers accessible for members only
Wolfgang Hess The ISCA Online Archive: Future Plans • To create a DVD version • To create a plurilingual glossary in speech communication • To collect and include old, hard-to-access material
Wolfgang Hess Thanks to Wolfgang Hess and Mathias Zeidler for the construction and maintenance of the ISCA Archive
ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs) • • 13 ITRWs organized 2005 -2006 Publications – Proceedings – CD-ROMs – Special Issues Speech Communication – Archive • Contact ISCA for new event proposals workshops@isca-speech. org Sadaoki Furui
2006 Sadaoki Furui • Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (1 st ISCA workshop in South Africa) • Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation • Experimental Linguistics • Perceptual Quality of Systems • SAPA 2006 - Statistical and Perceptual Audition • Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 2007 • NOLISP 07 – Non-Linear Speech Processing • SSW-6 – 6 th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
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 • Up to 3 Distinguished Lecturers to be selected for 2006/7 – First Distinguished Lecturer Tour planned for 2007 – Selection Committee: Sadaoki Furui (chair), Louis Pols, Renato De. Mori, Nelson Morgan, Lin-shan Lee (secretary) – Call for Nominations distributed in ISCA PAD and on website 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
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 – 2007, Antwerp – 2008, Brisbane – 2009, Brighton – Call for Proposals and proposal guidelines available from http: //www. iscaspeech. org/conferences. html (deadline for preliminary bids, December 15 th 2006) Isabel Trancos
• Updated INTERSPEECH reviewer list – Please send email to Isabel. Trancoso@inesc-id. pt to volunteer • No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction as of 2009 – Location balanced across all regions – Contents balanced between science and technology for all conferences
Grants September 2005 -06 Total expenditure by ISCA: 14355 E Int. 06: ~13000 E Total: ~27355 E ~ 21% Increase Grants: 62 (34 events) 36 for ISCA organized events 26 for ISCA supported events Countries: 24 Jean-François Bonastre
New “special situation” grants Electronic only submission New web-based system soon EU By regions
Awards Jean-François Bonastre ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2006 Recipient: John Ohala 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2006 ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2003 -2005 Will be awarded at closing ceremony
Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Jean-François Bonastre • Responsible: Murat Akbacak, Christophe Van Bael, Agustín Gravano • New student website: http: //www. isca-students. org • Please sign up! Non-students and non-ISCA members welcome too! • Student events at INTERSPEECH 2006 • Panel with senior researchers on Sunday; next year: “How to improve your presentation skills” • Student reception tonight
Publications q ISCApad monthly E-newspaper (#100 coming soon) ISCA events, notes from the board, job offers, conferences, papers, new books… q Elsevier contacts Speech Communication
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Eva. Hajicova AISV SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFC P SIGdial Sa. LTMIL AVISA Syn. SIG Chinese SLP INSTIL
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) • 13 SIGs: Number increasing – 2 new SIGs • SIG on Iberian languages SIG-IL • Indian Language Speech Processing - SIG-ILSP • Main SIG activities: – Organization of workshops • SIGs Future: – Goal: to involve SIGs more actively in the international affairs program
Treasurer’s Report Michael Wagner • Excellent result for 2005 • Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding • Savings in Board meeting costs • Support for new initiatives: distinguished lecturers, website, grants, young researcher activities
Income 2004 2005 INTERSPEECH DONATIONS 24, 870 42, 280 Jeju Lisbon ITRW SHARES 4, 040 - 919 658 35, 996 52, 576 193 210 66, 018 95, 724 SALE PROCEEDINGS MEMBERSHIP INTEREST TOTAL (€) Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables
Expenditure (1) 2004 2005 SALARIES 31, 391 34, 243 BOARD MEETINGS 13, 895 13, 224 4, 556 4, 771 12, 970 14, 189 2, 460 2, 142 - 4, 918 65, 272 73, 487 SECRETARIAT GRANTS M’SHIP SERVICES ARCHIVE carried forward
Expenditure (2) 2004 2005 65, 272 73, 487 STUDENTS 3, 167 1, 000 W’SHOPS & GROUPS 3, 200 5, 033 - 1, 005 646 1, 932 BANK COSTS 1, 042 1, 014 TOTAL (€) 73, 327 83, 471 brought forward LIAISON & SIG OTHER
INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE 2004 2005 Income 66, 018 95, 724 Expenditure 73, 327 83, 471 Income over Expenditure -7, 309 12, 253
31. 12. 2004 31. 12. 2005 BANK BALANCE 60, 353 101, 609 RECEIVABLES 38, 000 13, 000 TOTAL ASSETS (€) 98, 353 114, 609 PAYABLES - - EQUITY (€) 98, 353 114, 609 Assets Liabilities & Equity For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2 workshops outstanding. Assets >€ 82 k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.
Conclusions Michael Wagner • ISCA is financially sound • ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops. • ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its support for grants and new initiatives
Approval of Reports • President‘s Report • Treasurer‘s Report
Goals for 2006 -7 Ø To expand international participation in ISCA ØDistinguished Lecturers program Ø To understand members’ needs better through surveys Ø To support student-centered activities Ø To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones
Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, 27 -31 August
Any Other Business?
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