GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

• INTERSPEECH 2007
• Antwerp, Belgium

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• Agenda
• Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of
  the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh)
• President's Report
• Treasurer's Report
• Approval of Reports
• Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board
• ISCA Goals for 2007-8
• Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
• Any Other Business
• Handover to the New President

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Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 19 September 2006,
630 pm

• 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

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• Presidents Report
• Recent Board Meetings
• Secretariat and Membership
• Membership Services
• The ISCA Online Archive
• Workshops
• International Affairs
• Scientific Diversity
• Industry Liaison
• Conferences
• Grants and Awards
• Student Liaison
• Publications
• SIGs
• Others

Julia Hirschberg
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• 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

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• 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

David House ISCA Secretary
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later
secretariat_at_isca-speech.org
Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant
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Membership Development
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Membership by Category
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Membership
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• 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
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• The ISCA Online Archive
• 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
  2003http//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

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Archive Structure
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• Some Numbers
• 19 INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP) Conferences
  with 11651 papers
• 65 ITRWs and ETRWs 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, ITRWs, and
  supported events will add around 1000 papers per
  year
• Planned ISCA Archive on DVD. Likely to be ready
  in 2008.

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• ISCA Tutorial Research Workshops (ITRWs)
• 11 ITRWs organized 2006-2007
• Publications
• Proceedings
• CD-ROMs
• Special IssuesSpeech Communication
• Archive
• 22 ISCA-supported (non-ITRW)
• Workshops
• Contact ISCA fornew event proposalsworkshops_at_isc
  a-speech.org

Sadaoki Furui
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• 2007
• NOLISP07 Non-Linear Speech Processing
• SSW-6 6th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
• Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialog
  Systems
• 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
• SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
  in Education
• 2008
• 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)

Sadaoki Furui
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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

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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

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Sadaoki Furui

• 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
• first lecture tour going to South Asia in Nov
  2007
• Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
• first lecture tour to Brazil in June 2007
• Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2007

Lin-shan Lee
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• Scientific Diversity
• In charge of strengthening and broadening
• ISCAs involvement in all areas of scientific
• and technological disciplines
• that are related to speech communication,
• both between humans and
• 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 ISCAs
  involvement
• and leadership is desired

Hiroya Fujisaki
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• Scientific Diversity
• ISCA Boards Recommendation on the list of topics
  
• for INTERSPEECH conferences since 2004
• ISCA Boards 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

Hiroya Fujisaki
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• Industry Liaison
• Maintains a List of Speech RD Companies and
  Speech Technology Vendors
• multinational, national and regional companies
• provides job advertising service
• ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior RD Managers
  of Multinational Speech RD Companies
• September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon
• September 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog
• information on ISCAs role in speech RD
  internationally
• job market facilitation through ISCA publications
  and website
• emerging issues of evaluation, quality and
  standards

Michael Wagner
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• International Conferences
• Future INTERSPEECH Conferences
• 2008, Brisbane, Australia
• 2009, Brighton, UK
• 2010, Makuhari, Japan
• 2011 - Call for Proposals and guidelines
  available http//www.isca-speech.org/conferences.h
  tml (deadline November 15th 2007)
• No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction
• Call for volunteers reviewers

Isabel Trancoso
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Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 Sept.
Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 Sept.
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INTERSPEECH 2009
Brighton, UK 6-9 Sept.
Speech and Intelligence
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Towards spoken language processing for all
regardless of age, health conditions, languages,
environment, etc.
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Grants September 2006 -07
Jean-François Bonastre
Total expenditure by ISCA 13500 E Int.07
10600 E Total 24100 E Grants54(7
events) 41 for IS-07 13 for other ISCA
events Countries 23
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Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
2007 Recipient Victor Zue ISCA Medal for
Service 2007 Recipient Wolfgang Hess 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 Patrick Lucey A Unified Approach to
Multi-Pose Audio-Visual ASR
Jean-François Bonastre
A. W. Black A. Cutler P. Dalsgaard
C. H. LeeJ. Mariani R. K. Moore  
E. Shriberg R. Stern B. Z. Yuan  
B. Granstrom J. Hansen L. Lamel
Jury
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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.

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Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee
Jean-François Bonastre
 

• Last years 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)
  _at_ 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 years panel discussion
  uploaded on the web

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• Publications
• ISCApad
• monthly E-newspaper
• (last issue 110)
• ISCA life, job offers,
• conferences, under
• print papers,
• new books
• Elsevier contacts
• Speech Communication

ISCApad number 110 July 31st, 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
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• Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

EvaHajicova
AISV
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
SynSIG
Chinese SLP
SLaTE
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• Some special activities of SIGs
• Special session at Interspeech - proposed by
  SALTMIL
• International Conferences and Workshops - e.g. SP
  2006 organized by SProSIG
• 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!!

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• Treasurers 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

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Note Loan payments/repayments are not included
in the income and expenditure tables
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78,539
67,953
10,586
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For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 1
or 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2 workshops
outstanding. Assets gt82k are required to
maintain a positive cash balance.
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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

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Approval of Reports

• Presidents Report
• Treasurers Report

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Goals for 2007-8

• To expand international participation in ISCA
• Distinguished Lecturers program
• Regional sub-committees
• To understand members needs better through
  surveys and increase community involvement
• To support student-centered activities
• To improve current ISCA web-based services and
  create new ones

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• 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

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Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH
2008 Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008
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• Any Other Business?

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• Handover to the new
• ISCA President

Isabel Trancoso
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