ISCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2010 Makuhari Japan www
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Agenda 1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly (Brighton) 2. President’s report 3. Treasurer’s report 4. Approval of the reports 5. Approval of proposed changes to ISCA Statutes A 4. 1 and A 5. 1 6. ISCA goals for 2010 -2011 7. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 8. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly 9. Any other business www. isca-speech. org
Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly in Brighton, UK, 8 September 2009, 6. 00 pm 1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane) 2. President’s report 3. Treasurer’s report 4. Approval of the reports 5. Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board 6. ISCA goals for 2009 -2010 7. Information on proposal to change ISCA Statute A 4. 1 which restricts Board membership to two members per country 8. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 9. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly 10. Any other business www. isca-speech. org
President’s Report • • • • • The ISCA Board Recent Board Meetings Secretariat and Membership Services ISCA Web The ISCA Online Archive Workshops SIGs ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program Industry Liaison with other Organizations Journals Conferences Grants and Awards Student Liaison ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material Others Isabel Trancoso President www. isca-speech. org
ISCA Board Ex-officio Alan Black Grants & Awards J. François Bonastre Vice-President Haizhou Li Web & Archive Helen Meng SAC Liaison Nick Campbell Workshops Bernd Möbius Treasurer Keikichi Hirose Fellows David House Secretary Wolfgang Hess Archive D. O‘Shaugnessy Conferences Michael Picheny SIGs, Ind. , Journals Chris Wellekens ISCApad Yoshinori Sagisaka Yannis Stylianou Tanja Schultz Isabel Trancoso DL, SIGs (language) Educ. , Video Archive Future Conferences President www. isca-speech. org
Recent Board Meetings • • • • Sept. 2006: Dec. 2006: Jan. 2007: April 2007: Aug. 2007: Dec. 2007: June 2008: Sept. 2008: Dec. 2008: April 2009: Sept. 2009: Nov. 2009: Mar. 2010: Apr. 2010: Sept. 2010: Pittsburgh (2) Virtual Antwerp (2) Virtual Brisbane (2) Virtual Taipei (at ICASSP) Brighton (2) Virtual Dallas (at ICASSP) Virtual (informal) Makuhari (1, +1 planned) www. isca-speech. org
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 www. isca-speech. org
Membership Development www. isca-speech. org
Membership by Category from 2001 -2010 www. isca-speech. org
Membership by country (june 2010) Japan 267 16, 90% Norway 19 1, 20% Iran 2 0, 13% USA 245 15, 51% Czech Republic 18 1, 14% Algeria 1 0, 06% France 200 12, 66% India 16 1, 01% Argentina 1 0, 06% Germany 106 6, 71% Singapore 15 0, 95% Bangladesh 1 0, 06% United Kingdom 97 6, 14% Greece 14 0, 89% Chile 1 0, 06% Korea 64 4, 05% Brasil 12 0, 76% Cuba 1 0, 06% China 49 3, 10% Denmark 11 0, 70% Egypt 1 0, 06% Spain 44 2, 78% Hong Kong 11 0, 70% Indonesia 1 0, 06% Netherlands 40 2, 53% Poland 11 0, 70% Latvia 1 0, 06% Australia 37 2, 34% Austria 8 0, 51% Lithuania 1 0, 06% Canada 32 2, 03% Russia 8 0, 51% Luxembourg 1 0, 06% Belgium 29 1, 84% Israel 7 0, 44% Malaysia 1 0, 06% Italy 29 1, 84% South Africa 6 0, 38% Malta 1 0, 06% Taiwan 27 1, 71% Hungary 4 0, 25% New Zealand 1 0, 06% Sweden 26 1, 65% Thailand 4 0, 25% Serbia 1 0, 06% Finland 25 1, 58% Estonia 3 0, 19% Slovakia 1 0, 06% Ireland 25 1, 58% Slovenia 3 0, 19% Ukraine 1 0, 06% Switzerland 22 1, 39% Turkey 3 0, 19% Zimbabwe 1 0, 06% Portugal 21 1, 33% Vietnam 3 0, 19% Total: 1580 www. isca-speech. org
Membership Services Jean-François Bonastre Institutional Members: An institutional member is a group membership for an (unique) institution Main idea: – The IM institution could benefit from the ISCA members’ special prices for different people depending on the ISCA event – A simpler administrative procedure Not very popular so far: – Has been limited to 5 grouped subscriptions – The members were not identified and could not participate individually in association activities (elections) www. isca-speech. org
Institutional Members - renewed • For each IM, some people can be identified at the subscription time as individual ISCA members • Remaining members of the pack benefit also from the ISCA reduced fees and can change on event to another • Four packs: – – 5 10 15 20 members, 3 identified, fees = 240 euros members, 6 identified, fees = 480 euros members, 9 identified, fees = 720 euros members, 12 identified, fees = 960 euros (1 IM could subscribe for several packs) • The IM are ISCA partners and benefit from: – Logo in the ISCA website – A DVD copy of the archive each year www. isca-speech. org
Web • New service provider (In. Campus) since July 2009 Haizhou Li – Hosting ISCA Web and ISCA student portal in one location • New ISCA Web was launched in December 2009 – Supported by a content management system for the first time – New layout and ISCA Archive (IS & Workshop proceedings) • New facelift of ISCApad since August 2010 – Online ISCApad publication – New editorial facility – Seamless integration with ISCA Web • To come – New ISCA membership portal ready in October 2010 Chris Wellekens ISCApad www. isca-speech. org
The ISCA Online Archive Wolfgang Hess • Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2009 in machine-readable form • > 100 events • 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 (password assistance on the web page) • Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David Gelbart and the Student Committee www. isca-speech. org
ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events) 2010 19 wrk/conf. sponsored (2 ITRW) Nick Campbell ISCA support for workshops – Web and ISCAPAD announcements – Grants for students Contact ISCA for new event proposals workshops@isca-speech. org – Archive Additional services – – – Secretariat support Online banking service Online registration Monetary advance Web/Mail announcement www. isca-speech. org
ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events) • • • SSW 7, Sept 2010, Kyoto SAPA 2010, September 2010, Tokyo Blizzard Challenge, September, Kyoto SIGDIAL, September 2010, Tokyo Di. SS-LPSS, September 2010 Tokyo TSD, September 2010, Brno Exling, August 2010, Athens ENTERFACE'10, Aqugust 2010, Amsterdam ACL, July 2010, Uppsala Odyssey, June 2010, Brno • • • Qo. MEX, June 2010, Trondheim JEP, May 2010, Mons LREC, May 2010, Malta Speech Prosody, May 2010, Chicago SLTU, May 2010, Penang PROPOR, April 2010, Porto Alegre ASRU, December 2009, Merano MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy) ea. SDS, December 2009 (Germany) • And 5 more in the next few months… (see our new web page for details : - ) www. isca-speech. org
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Yoshinori Sagisaka Michael Pichen AFC P AISV Sa. LTMIL SIG-IL AVISA Chinese SL SIG-ILSP SIGRU LANGUAGES SIGdial TOPICS Syn. SIG SLa. TE www. isca-speech. org
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Representative SIG Activities: • Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs • International Conferences – INTERSPEECH 2011 co-organized by AISV, – INTERSPEECH 2013 co-organized by AFCP • Workshops - e. g. , AVSP 2010 (AVISA), Oriental –COSCODA (SIG-CSLP), PROPOR 2010 (SIG-IL) SIGDIAL (in conjunction with Interspeech 2010), Second Language Studies (Sept 2010), , Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), SSW 7 (SYNSIG, Sept. 2010), Speech Prosody 2010 (SPROSIG) • Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2010) • Thesis prizes - AFCP, 2009 and SIG-IL, 2010 • Contributions to ISCApad Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!! www. isca-speech. org
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 One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008 -2009 – Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Latin America in Aug 2009 • India in Dec 2009 • Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for 2009 -2010 – Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA • Brazil in June 2010 – James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yoshinori Sagisa • Planning the trip to Nepal in Nov 2010 • Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2009 for 2010 -2011 – Li Deng, Microsoft Research at Redmond, USA • Lecture Trips under planning – Thierry DUTOIT, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium • Lecture Trips under planning • Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2010 www. isca-speech. org
Industry Liaison • Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA Michael Pichen – Listed on ISCA website by logo with short descriptions – Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates • September 2009 at INTERSPEECH In Brighton • September 2010 at INTERSPEECH in Makuhari – Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus • Leverages student resume service (in conjunction with SAC and Education Coordinator) to help match students with jobs, as well as ISCA webpage “JOBS“ section www. isca-speech. org
Liaison with other organizations Yoshinori Sagisak • Liaison with organizations in speech and language – ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA – Encouragement of joint activities – Representation in NAACL&HLT www. isca-speech. org
Journals • ISCA has two journals: SPECOM and CSL (SPECOM is a shared journal with EURASIP) • Have decided to revive yearly paper awards, merge award processes across journals and coordinate with EURASIP • Even years (2010, 2012. . . ) ISCA will solely present paper awards • Odd years (2011, 2013) ISCA and EURASIP will collaborate on SPECOM, and ISCA will solely present awards for CSL Michael Pichen Jean-Francois Bonastre Yoshinori Sagisaka www. isca-speech. org
Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences INTERSPEECH 2011: Florence, Italy, August 27 -31, 2011 INTERSPEECH 2012: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 09 -13, 2012 Douglas O‘Shaugne ssy INTERSPEECH 2013: Lyon, France, August 25 -29, 2013 Call for proposals and guidelines for Interspeech-2014 (Nov. 1 st. 2010 deadline) www. isca-speech. org (click on: events, then on guidelines) Tanja Schultz Call for volunteer reviewers www. isca-speech. org
INTERSPEECH statistics 1400 1288 1200 1000 1110 1002 1226 1164 1048 977 1120 876 838 800 600 400 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 reg subm reg accept sp subm sp accept participants www. isca-speech. org
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Grants September 2009 -10 Alan W Black Total expenditure by ISCA: ~20800 € IS 10: ~13000 € Total: ~33800 € By Country: (by institution of awardees) 52 Grants 9 events 25 Countries By Continent: USA 7, UK 5, France 4, India 4, plus others NA: 8, Europe 23, Africa 1, SA 1, Asia 10, ANZ 5 Including extra support from IS 2006 organizers www. isca-speech. org
2010: Applications 101, awarded 52, award rate 51% 2009: Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate 83% 2008: Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51% Awardees are: Students, First time presentation SAC contributors ISCA supported event, One grant per Institution Exceptions sometimes made Rejections are due to : Applications from the same group, too many for event (Interspeech) Please apply early through Online Application Website (yes, it works again!) www. isca-speech. org
Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2010 Recipient: Steve Young Alan W Black 6 new ISCA Fellows ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2007 -2009 ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer and Language Journal 2005 -2009 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2010 TBA Thursday at the Interspeech 2010 closing ceremony www. isca-speech. org
ISCA Fellows, 2010 Chair: Sadaoki Furui Keikichi Hirose 9 nominations 6 awarded Alex ACERO Janet BAKER John HANSEN Lin-Shan LEE Nelson MORGAN Philip WOODLAND www. isca-speech. org
Student liaison Helen Meng ISCA Student Advisory Committee Current Members Samer Al Moubayed General Coordinator KTH, Sweden Catherine Lai Volunteers Coordinator University of Pennsylvania, USA Marcel Wältermann Web Coordinator Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin, Germany Matt Speed Content and Publicity Coordinator University of York, United Kingdom Members completing their te Antonio Roque Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti Transition Coordinator Educational Series Coordinator University of Southern California, USA University of Cambridge, UK Sylvie Saget General Coordinator Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI , France Sunayana Sitaram Volunteers Coordinator National Institute of Tech. India www. isca-speech. org
Student liaison • Migration and complete renewal of the ISCA-SAC website – – – www. isca-students. org Now hosted in Singapore (thanks to Dr. Haizhou Li and Tse Min Lua from In. Campus) State-of-the-Art Content Management Platform (Drupal 6) New design and extended functionality Central part: Blog for increased interactivity between ISCA-SAC and students – Re-implementation of the ISCA Grant Application System – Forum – Ongoing migration of all the functionality of the old website (e. g. , books, theses, job listings) • Membership drive! – Visit our social networking sites at Facebook and Twitter! – Meet us at the ISCA booth everyday between 12: 00– 14: 00! • Maintenance of Google indexing of ISCA publications www. isca-speech. org
Student liaison • YRRSDS'10 (Young Researchers Roundtable at the Spoken Dialog Systems Workshop 2010) – www. yrrsds. org – An annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry – YRRSDS'10 kindly hosted by Waseda Unviersity on September 22 -23, 2010 – Sponsors: Orange Labs (awaiting confirmation), Honda Research Institute, Microsoft Research, AT&T, Aldebaran Robotics, Dialonics www. isca-speech. org
ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2010 ISCA-SAC Student Panel Session Speech Technology in the Next Decade 2010 -2020 Visions from Academia and Industry –Objective: Dialog between invited researchers and students! – Prof. Alan Black: CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) – Prof. Nick Campbell : Trinity College Dublin – Dr. Ciprian Chelba: Google – Dr. Bowen Zhou: IBM Research – Organizer: ISCA-SAC – Sponsors: ISCA – Date: Wednesday (Sep 29, 13: 30 -15: 30, Room 301) All Are Welcome! www. isca-speech. org
Student liaison • Interspeech 2010 Student Reception! – Tuesday 28 September, from 19: 15 – Venue: MTG (Makuhari Techno Garden) building, a 12 minute walk northeast and inland from the conference site – Bring your tickets! www. isca-speech. org
ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material Yannis Stylianou We plan to create Multimedia educational material from: 1. Keynote speeches and tutorials at ISCA conferences and workshops 2. ISCA Distinguished Lectures 3. Researchers who are willing to provide short courses on selected topics (by invitation at the beginning) For this purpose: • • An ISCA Consent and Release Form was compiled (first time will be used at Interspeech 2010) Convenient material dissemination practices are under consideration (formats, server etc. ) www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report Highlights Bernd MÖBIUS • Positive result (income over expenditure) for 2009 • Expenditure for the benefit of members – major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new web hosting service – continuous and increased grant support • Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding • Consistent savings thanks to Student Committee initiatives www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report Income 2008 2009 Membership fees *95, 219 43, 292 Interspeech donation *73, 095 40, 520 ITRW shares 1, 836 0 Proceedings 0 0 3, 254 3, 422 173, 405 87, 234 Interest on Savings TOTAL (€) * Two Interspeech conferences: Antwerp (2007) and Brisbane (2008) www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report Expenditure (1) 2008 2009 Salaries *26, 615 35, 356 Board/Committee meetings **8, 727 **6, 923 2, 583 4, 263 12, 490 18, 911 Special Interest Groups 0 0 Website Administration 5, 508 6, 841 55, 923 72, 294 Secretariat Grants & Awards subtotal * Lower because of maternity leave ** Includes room rent for committee meetings www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report Expenditure (2) 2008 2009 55, 923 72, 294 Distinguished Lecturers 4, 395 *0 Workshop support 1, 000 1, 200 0 0 738 455 Bank Costs 1, 189 1, 193 TOTAL (€) 63, 245 75, 142 Training & Education Archive * To incur in 2010 www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report Assets 31/12/2008 31/12/2009 161, 244 208, 434 39, 000 0 200, 244 208, 434 PAYABLES 0 0 EQUITY (€) 200, 244 208, 434 BANK BALANCE RECEIVABLES TOTAL ASSETS (€) Liabilities & Equity Each year ISCA gives seed money to 1 -2 Interspeech conferences and 1 -2 workshops. Assets >€ 82 k are required to maintain a positive cash balance. www. isca-speech. org
Treasurer’s Report - Conclusion • ISCA is financially sound • ISCA will continue to provide seed money for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops: – assets sufficient to support 1 -2 Interspeech conferences and workshops at any time – reserves enable ISCA to reduce financial risks to conference organizers, which potentially reduces registration fees • ISCA is strengthening its support for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives. • New ideas are most welcome! www. isca-speech. org
Approval of Reports Report – President – Treasurer www. isca-speech. org
Changes to the ISCA Statutes A 4. 1 Statute A 4. 1 restricts ISCA Board membership to no more than two members per country. Possible changes to this restriction were discussed at the General Assembly held last year in Brighton, and now the Board is officially proposing increasing the limit to three members per country: Current: “No more than two members of the Board are permitted from one country” Proposed: “No more than three members of the Board are permitted from one country” www. isca-speech. org
Changes to the ISCA Statutes A 5. 1 Statute A 5. 1 specifies the frequency of General Assembly meetings to once every two years. In practice, the General Assembly now meets at each Interspeech Conference and therefore the Board proposes the following change: Current: “The General Assembly meets every two years” Proposed: “The General Assembly meets at least every two years” www. isca-speech. org
Goals for 2010 -11 • To enhance ISCA’s world position – To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops • To expand ISCA’s international aspects – – • To support student-centered activities Regional sub-committees Remote access to lectures (DL program) Improve the representation of underrepresented countries/regions in the membership To enhance the ISCA community – To raise the impact factor of ISCA members’ publications – To expand the ISCA video archive and virtual conferencing – To understand members’ needs better and increase community involvement – To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research – To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones www. isca-speech. org
Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members www. isca-speech. org
Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence, Italy, August 27 -31, 2011 www. isca-speech. org
Any Other Business? www. isca-speech. org
Changes to the ISCA Statute A 4. 1 Alternatives considered: A. Keep current restriction (max 2 per country) B. Increase limit to max 3 per country C. Include regional restrictions • max 3 -6 per region • Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania D. Make restrictions proportional to membership representation • need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult E. Remove restriction Problem: • None of the above options encourages diversity in field The Board unanimously decided for option B: • In view of extension to 14 members • Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation • This was presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but needs to be approved now, in time for the next Board elections in April-May 2011 www. isca-speech. org
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