GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium

Agenda 1.Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh) 2.President's Report 3.Treasurer's Report 4.Approval of Reports 5.Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board 6.ISCA: Goals for Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly 8.Any Other Business 9.Handover to the New President

1.Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2005 General Assembly (Lisbon) 2.President's Report 3.Treasurer's Report 4.Approval of Reports 5.ISCA: Goals for Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly 7.Any Other Business Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 19 September 2006, 6:30 pm

President’s 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

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

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: David House ISCA Secretary Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant

Membership Development

Membership by Category

Membership 596 – 44% 17 – 1% 12 – 1% % 296 – 21%

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

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 –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

Some Numbers 19 INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP) Conferences with papers 65 ITRW‘s and ETRW‘s with 2664 papers Nine ISCA-supported events with 768 papers In total: 93 events, papers, 4.51 GByte of disk space New INTERSPEECH conferences, ITRW‘s, and supported events will add around 1000 papers per year Planned: ISCA Archive on DVD. Likely to be ready in 2008.

ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs) 11 ITRWs organized Publications –Proceedings –CD-ROMs –Special Issues Speech Communication –Archive 22 ISCA-supported (non-ITRW) Workshops Contact ISCA for new event proposals Sadaoki Furui

2007 NOLISP07 – Non-Linear Speech Processing SSW-6 – 6 th Speech Synthesis Research Workshop Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 8 th 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)

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 Selection Committee chaired by Sadaoki Furui Two Distinguished Lecturers selected by the end of 2006 for –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 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 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 –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 d. Advisory Committee on Scientific Diversity Hiroya Fujisaki

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 –2008, Brisbane, Australia –2009, Brighton, UK –2010, Makuhari, Japan – Call for Proposals and guidelines available (deadline: November 15th 2007) No Eurospeech/ICSLP distinction Call for volunteers reviewers Isabel Trancoso

Brisbane, Australia, Sept.

INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK 6-9 Sept. “Speech and Intelligence”

“Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”

Grants September Jean-François Bonastre Total expenditure by ISCA: ~13500 E Int.07: ~10600 E Total: ~24100 E Grants:54 (7 events) 41 for IS for other ISCA events Countries: 23

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 (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. Lee J. Mariani R. K. Moore Jury: E. Shriberg R. Stern B. Z. Yuan B. Granstrom J. Hansen L. Lamel

Jean-François Bonastre Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee 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.

Jean-François Bonastre Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Last year’s 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 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 year’s panel discussion uploaded on the web

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

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) SynSIG Chinese SLP AVISA SaLTMIL SIGdial EvaHajicova SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFCP AISV SLaTE

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!!

Treasurer’s Report 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 : distinguished lecturers, website, grants, student activities Chris Wellekens

Income INTERSPEECH DONATIONS 42,280 Lisbon 36,505 Pittsburgh ITRW SHARES -900 SALE PROCEEDINGS MEMBERSHIP 52,57640,130 INTEREST TOTAL (€)95,72478,539 Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables

Expenditure (1) SALARIES 34,24335,803 MEETINGS 13,2244,504 SECRETARIAT 4,7713,590 GRANTS 14,18913,925 M’SHIP SERVICES/ARCHIVE 7,0600 WEBSITE -5,851 carried forward 73,48763,673

Expenditure (2) brought forward 73,48763,673 STUDENTS 1,0002,000 W’SHOPS & GROUPS 5,0331,000 LIAISON & SIG 1,0050 OTHER 1,9320 BANK COSTS 1,0141,280 TOTAL (€)83,47167,953

INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE Income95,724 Expenditure83,471 Income over Expenditure 12,253 78,539 67,953 10,586

Assets BANK BALANCE 101,60990,114 RECEIVABLES 13,00035,000 TOTAL ASSETS (€) 114,609125,114 Liabilities & Equity PAYABLES -- EQUITY (€) 114,609125,114 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 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 Chris Wellekens

Approval of Reports President‘s Report Treasurer‘s Report

Goals for  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

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

Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2008 Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008

Any Other Business?

Handover to the new ISCA President Isabel Trancoso