Title: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- INTERSPEECH 2009
- Brighton, UK
2- Agenda
- 1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of
the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane) - 2. Presidents report
- 3. Treasurers 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
A4.1 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
3Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly in Brisbane,
Australia, 24 September 2008, 6.00 pm
- Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of
the 2007 General Assembly (Antwerp) - President's Report
- Treasurer's Report
- Approval of Reports
- ISCA Goals for 2008-2009
- Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA
Members - Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
- Any Other Business
4- Presidents Report
- The ISCA Board
- Recent Board Meetings
- Secretariat and Membership
- ISCA Web
- The ISCA Online Archive
- Workshops
- SIGs
- International Affairs
- Industry Liaison
- Liaison with other Organizations
- Conferences
- Grants and Awards
- Student Liaison
- Publications
- Others
Isabel Trancoso President
5- ISCA Board (2008-2009)
Ex officio
Vice-Pres. / ITWRs Jean-François Bonastre
President Isabel Trancoso
Secretary David House
Treasurer Bernd Möbius
International Affairs Lin-shan Lee
Membership Services Eva Hajicova
Grants Awards Alan Black
Education / Website Helen Meng
Conferences Tanja Schultz
SIGs Michael Picheny
Liaison w/ other orgs Yoshinori Sagisaka
6- Recent Board Meetings
- Sept.2006 Pittsburgh (2)
- Dec. 2006 Virtual
- Jan. 2007 Virtual
- April 2007 Virtual
- Aug. 2007 Antwerp (2)
- Dec. 2007 Virtual
- June 2008 Virtual
- Sept. 2008 Brisbane (2)
- Dec. 2008 Virtual
- April 2009 Taipei (at ICASSP)
7- 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
8Membership Development
9Membership by Category
10Membership by country
11- ISCA website
- Need for significant improvement
- Migrate provider from Mdb Web Data Solutions to
InCampus Pte. Ltd. (with help from Dr. Haizhou
Li) - Resumé posting service at
- http//www.isca- students.org/isca_resumes_search_
facility - With help from Dr. Michael Picheny
- Maintenance by ISCA SAC members
- Web information updates
- Emmanuelle Foxonet, ISCA administrator
Helen Meng
12- The ISCA Online Archive
- Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from
1987 to 2009 in machine-readable form - gt 100 events
- 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
13Archive Structure
14ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events)
Jean-François Bonastre
- 2009
- 15 wrk/conf. Sponsored
- (2 ITRW)
- Contact ISCA
- for new event proposalsworkshops_at_isca-speech.org
- ISCA support for workshops
- Web and ISCAPAD announcements
- Grants for students
- Archive
- Additional services
- Secretariat support
- Online banking service
- Online registration
- Monetary advance
- Web/Mail announcement
15 J-F Bonastre
- WOCCI, October 2008 (CRETE/GREECE)
- Wrk in memory of C. Benoît, October 2008 (France)
- VJTH , November 2008 (Spain) - SIGIL
- SLT, December 2008 (India) ILSP
- DiaHolmia, June, 2009 (Sweden)
- NOLISP, June 2009 (Spain), ITRW
- KRPDS, July 2009 (USA)
- SLATE, September 2009 (UK), Slate, ITRW
- ACORNS, September 2009 (UK)
- AVSP, September 2009 (UK) - AVISA
- SIGDIAL, September 2009 (UK) SIGDIAL
- Blizzard, September 2009 (UK) - SynSIG
- YRRSD, September 2009 (UK)
- SLTD, September 2009 (UK)
- IE-IR-LRL, September 2009 (Spain) - SALTMIL
- WOCCI, November 2009 (USA)
- IEEE ASRU, December 2009 (Italy)
- MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy)
- eaSDS, December 2009 (Germany)
- LREC 2010, May 2010 (Malta)
- Speaker Odyssey, June-July 2010 (Czech Republic),
SPLC, ITRW
16- Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Michael Picheny
AISV
SIG-IL
ISCA SIG-ILSP
AFCP
SynSIG
SIGRU
Chinese SLP
SLaTE
17- Representative SIG Activities
- Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs
- International Conferences and Workshops - e.g.
ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIG-CSLP (Dec. 2008),
SIGDIAL (in conjunction with Interspeech 2009),
SLATE (Sept 2009), VJTH (SIGIL, Nov., 2008),
Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), Blizzard (SYNSIG, Sept.
2009). - Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2009)
- Upcoming Special issue of Speech Communication
SLATE (October, 2009) - Topic vs Language-specific SIGs
- Some SIGs are clearly geographically based
(SIG-IL, SIGRU, etc), others such as SIGDIAL,
SYNSIG and SPLC are clearly topic-based and
broad-based geographically. - Should the International Affairs Committee
coordinate such SIGs for better synergy? - Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting
reviewers!!
Michael Picheny
18ISCA 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 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
19ISCA International Affairs Committee
Lin-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 - Initiating ISCA-organized or co-sponsored events
in their region - Distributing ISCA event and service information
to researchers in their region - Recommending that students and young researchers
in their region apply for ISCA grants to attend
events sponsored by ISCA - Developing ISCA relationships with relevant
sister associations in their regions - Establishing Special Interest Groups
20- 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 planned for Dec 2008 but canceled, now
planned for Dec 2009 - Latin America in Aug 2009
- Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for
2009-2010 - Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los
Angeles, USA - James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA - Lecture Trips under planning
- Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2009
Sadaoki Furui
Lin-shan Lee
21- Industry Liaison
- Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA
- Listed on ISCA website (under development)
- Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates
- September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane
- September 2009 at INTERSPEECH in Brighton
- Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus
- One of first actions leverage new student resume
service (in conjunction with SAC and Education
Coordinator) to help match students with jobs. - Future goals promote educational materials,
software, workshops with industrial application
focus
Michael Picheny
22Yoshinori Sagisaka
- Liaison with other Organizations
- Liaison with organizations in speech and language
- ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA
- Encouragement of joint activities
- Representation in NAACLHLT
23- ISCA journals
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- Speech Communication
- Computer Speech and Language
- Best paper awards
Yoshinori Sagisaka
24- International Conferences
- Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences
- 2010, Makuhari, Japan
- 2011, Florence, Italy
- 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Call for Proposals and guidelines available
http//www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html
(deadline November 15th 2009) - Call for volunteer reviewers
Tanja Schultz
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26Towards spoken language processing for all
regardless of age, health conditions, languages,
environment, etc.
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29Grants September 2008-09
Alan W Black
Total expenditure by ISCA 19750 IS09
13000 Total 32750 52 Grants 8 events
23 Countries
By Country (by institution of awardees) USA
10, UK 4, France 4, India 3, Spain 3, China
3, South Africa 2, Australia 2, Belgium 2 plus
others By Continent NA 11, Europe 21, Africa
2, SA 1, Asia 16, ANZ 1 Extra support from IS2006
organizers
302009 Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate
83 (2008 Applications 106, awarded 54, award
rate 51) Awardees are Students, First time
presentation ISCA support event, One grant per
Institution Exceptions sometimes made Rejections
are due to Applications from the same group,
too many for event Please apply early through
Online Application Website
31Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
2008 Recipient Sadaoki Furui 6 new ISCA
Fellows ISCA Award for the best paper published
in the Speech Communication Journal 2007-2009
3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper
of INTERSPEECH 2009 TBA Thursday 2009 at the
Interspeech 2009 closing ceremony
Alan W Black
32- Fellows nomination procedure 2009
- 11 nominations
- 6 awarded
- Anne Cutler
- Wolfgang Hess
- Joseph Mariani
- Hermann Ney
- Roberto Pieraccini
- Elizabeth Shriberg
-
Eva Hajicova
Alan W Black
33Student liaison
Helen Meng
ISCA Student Advisory Committee Board members
Samer Al Moubayed Outreach Coordinator Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden
Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti Educational Series
Coordinator University of Cambridge, UK
Antonio Roque Transition Coordinator University
of Southern California, USA
Sylvie Saget General Coordinator Telecom
Bretagne, LUSSI Department, France
Sunayana Sitaram Volunteers Coordinator National
Institute of Technology, Surat, India
Marcel Wältermann Web Coordinator Deutsche
Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
34- ISCA-SAC _at_ Interspeech 2009
- Student Panel Discussion
- Organisers ISCA SAC
- Sponsors ISCA
- Date Tue (Sep 8, 1330-1530)
- Guests
- Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research)
- Philippe Bretier (Orange Labs)
- Mike McTear (University of Ulster)
- Web Online Grant Application System
- http//www.isca-students.org/grants
- Student Room Share Service
- Helped students find room-mates for the IS2009
conference - SAC members will be at the ISCA booth 12-14 every
day
Helen Meng
35Helen Meng
- Other activities of ISCA-SAC
- Organization of the 10th anniversary poster
design contest - (72 submissions)
- Interview transcriptions for the History of
Speech and Language Technology Project (Saras
Institute), publication in IEEE SLTC Newsletters - ISCA-SAC logo contest winner Mohamed
Abou-Zleikha - Website Transition to Web 2.0 (Blog already
launched) -
36- Publications
- ISCA Pad on the website
- Edited by Christian Wellekens
- Authoring toolISCAPad Maker
- By Laurence Liu and Helen Meng
- Converts text to structured hyperlinks for easy
access
Chris Wellekens
Helen Meng
37Bernd MÖBIUS
- Positive result for 2008 - more income but more
expenditure due to new initiatives - Solid financial base for continued Interspeech
and ITRW seed funding - Enhancing internationalization (DL, SIG)
- Continuing grant support
- Consistent saving thanks to Student Committee
initiatives - Major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new
web hosting service requiring more expenditures
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39 Includes generous surplus donation from IS
2006 (Pittsburgh), to be used for
grants Includes membership fees from
2 conferences (IS 2007, Antwerp and IS
2008, Brisbane) Loan payments/repayments are
not included in income and expenditure tables
40 Lower because of maternity leave Includes
room rent for all committee meetings
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43For several months each year, ISCA has loans to
1-2 Interspeech conferences and 1-2 workshops
outstanding. Assets gt82k are required to
maintain a positive cash balance.
44Conclusions
- ISCA is financially sound - assets growing.
- Increased reserves enable ISCA to reduce
financial risks to conference organizers
potentially reducing registration fees. - ISCA will continue to provide loans for
Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops. - ISCA is still in a position to strengthen its
support for grants, international actions and
groups, and new initiatives. - New ideas are most welcome!
45Approval of Reports
- Presidents Report
- Treasurers Report
46- Changes to the ISCA Board
- New members Nick Campbell (Ireland), Keikichi
Hirose (Japan), Haizhou Li (Singapore), Douglas
OShaughnessy (Canada), Yannis Stylianou (Greece)
- Continuing members Alan Black, Jean-François
Bonastre, David House, Helen Meng, Bernd Möbius,
Michael Picheny, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Tanja
Schultz, Isabel Trancoso - Retiring members Eva Hajicova, Lin-shan Lee
47 Alan Black
Keikichi Hirose
Jean-François Bonastre
David House
Nick Campbell
Helen Meng
Michael Picheny
Haizhou Li
Bernd Möbius
Douglas OShaugnessy
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Yannis Stilianou
Isabel Trancoso
Tanja Schultz
48Goals for 2009-10
- To enhance ISCAs world position
- To promote high standards in ISCAs conferences
and workshops - To expand ISCAs international aspects
- To support student-centered activities
- Regional sub-committees
- Remote access to lectures (DL program)
- To enhance the ISCA community
- To raise the impact factor of ISCA members
publications - To launch the ISCA video archive
- 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
49- Board composition
- Alternatives considered
- Keep current restriction (max 2 per country)
- Increase limit to max 3 per country
- Include regional restrictions
- max 3-6 per region
- Regions Europe Africa, America, AsiaOceania
- Make restrictions proportional to membership
representation - need a concrete proposal for this, but it will
be logistically very difficult - 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 - To be presented to the General Assembly in 2009,
but voted in 2010, in time for the next Board
elections
50Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA
Members
51Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH
2010 Makuhari, Japan, September 26-30, 2010
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