GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

• INTERSPEECH 2005
• Lisbon, Portugal

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• Agenda
• Opening Remarks - 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

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Minutes of the 2004 General Assembly in Jeju,
Korea, October 6, 2004, 1800

• Opening Remarks and Minutes of the 2003 General
  Assembly
• President's Report
• Treasurer's Report
• Approval of the Reports
• ISCA Goals of 2004-5
• Demonstration on Online ISCA Proceedings Archive
• Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly
• Any Other Business

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

Sadaoki Furui
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• Recent Board Meetings
• Mar. 2004 Kyoto
• Oct. 2004 Jeju
• May 2005 Lisbon
• Sept. 2005 Lisbon

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Membership Development
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Membership by Category
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Membership by Country
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• Secretariat and Membership Services
• Improvements to website
• From September
• New online membership database
• Password-protected section
• Members archive
• Student Section
• In development
• Weblog

Valerie Hazan ISCA Secretary
Manu Foxonet (Administrative Assistance)
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later
services_at_isca-speech.org info_at_isca-speech.org
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Membership structure

• New joint membership option with AISV (Italian
  Association for Voice Sciences)
• Proposal to permit non-member registration at
  future INTERSPEECH conferences (with no
  obligatory ISCA membership)

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• Board Structure
• 2005 Elections
• Decision to reduce Board size from 13 to 11
• Second term expired for 4 Board members, first
  term expired for 3 Board members, one member
  resigned
• Elections held in June/July 2005
• Six new Board members elected
• Decision to form Committees (e.g. for membership
  services and international affairs) to support
  the work of the Board

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Plans for Regions/International Affairs
Lin-shan Lee

• International Affairs Committee will be
  organized
• 2 or 3 members from each region (North America,
  Europe, Asia and all other areas for example)
• Chaired by a board member
• Example functions of the committee
• Extending ISCA services to all parts of the world
• Distributing information about ISCA services
  (archives, membership fee structure, web-based
  services, etc.), establishing SIGs/chapters in
  different areas, sponsoring local events,
  organizing distinguished lecturer program, etc.

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Wolfgang Hess

• The ISCA Online Archive
• To contain all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
  ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs in
  machine-readable form
• Online archive available on website since August
  2003http//www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html
  
• Abstracts accessible for everybody
• Full papers accessible for members only
• User name ISCA_Archive (case sensitive)
• Password mInd_it to be changed in January 2006

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Archive Structure
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Wolfgang Hess

• The ISCA Online Archive Current Contents
• Eleven INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH, ICSLP)
  Conferences with 7850 papers
• 55 ITRWs and ETRWs with 2282 papers
• Six ISCA-supported events with 604 papers
• Last Update August 19, 2005, with EUROSPEECH95
• In total 72 events, 10736 papers, 3.48 GByte of
  disk space

After leaving the Board, Wolfgang Hess will
continue working as archive coordinator.
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Wolfgang Hess

• The ISCA Online Archive Still Under Work
• INTERSPEECH 2004 full papers will be released
  soon
• ICSLP 90, 92, 94 EUROSPEECH 89 and 91 to be
  edited.
• Four ETRWs from 1992 and earlier

• The ISCA Online Archive Future Plans
• To complete scanning and editing of all ISCA
  conferences and I(E)TRWs before next INTERSPEECH
• To create a DVD version once the archive is
  complete
• To create a plurilingual glossary in speech
  communication
• To collect and include old, hard-to-access
  material

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Rolf Carlson

• ISCA Tutorial Research Workshops (ITRWs)
• 12 ITRWs organized 2004-2005
• Publications
• Proceedings
• CD-ROMs
• Special IssuesSpeech Communication
• Archive
• Contact ISCA fornew event proposalsitrw_at_isca-spe
  ech.org

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• 2005
• Non-linear Speech Processing 05 Nolisp05
• Plasticity in Speech perception (PSP2005)
• Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialog
  Systems
• 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
• Biennial on DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems
• Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DISS'05)
• Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed
  Environments
• 2006
• First ISCA workshop in South AfricaMultilingual
  Speech and Language Processing
• Odyssey 2006
• SAPA2006 - Statistical and Perceptual Audition

Rolf Carlson
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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 2004, 2005, and 2006
• 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

Hiroya Fujisaki
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• Industry Liaison
• Established a Reference List of Speech RD
  Companies
• multinational, national and regional companies
• First ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior RD
  Managers of Multinational Speech RD Companies
• September 2005 at INTERSPEECH in Lisbon
• Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog
• ISCAs role as an international speech research
  organisation
• development of speech technology standards
• independent evaluations and facilitation of
  quality issues
• job market facilitation and many more...

Michael Wagner
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• International Conferences
• Future INTERSPEECH Conferences
• 2006, Pittsburgh
• 2007, Antwerp
• 2008, Brisbane
• 2009 Call for Proposals and proposal guidelines
  available from http//www.isca-speech.org/conferen
  ces.html (deadline for preliminary bids, 12/15/05)

Julia Hirschberg
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• Updated INTERSPEECH reviewer list
• Please send email to julia_at_cs.columbia.edu to
  volunteer
• Membership conference survey (Fall 2004)
  highlights
• 95 who attended INTERSPEECH 2004 were satisfied
  with the conference
• 68 thought balance between science and
  technology was good or excellent

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• 62 thought ISCA membership should be linked to
  conference/workshop registration (vs. 30 who
  thought not)
• See www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html for
  more...
• Fall 2005 survey will be conducted after this
  conference

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Grants 2005 (Jan 1 Aug 31)
George Kokkinakis
Total expenditure by ISCA and INTERSPEECH
22,500 EUR Grants 81 (61 by ISCA and 20 by
INTERSPEECH 2005) Countries 27 18.9 Increase in
grants and big increase in applications
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• Awards
• ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
• 2005 Recipient Graeme Clark, Australia
• ISCA Award for the Best Student Paper of
  INTERSPEECH 2005
• Recipient(s) To be announced at the closing
  ceremony
• ISCA Award for the best paper published in the
  Speech Communication Journal 2002-2004
• Recipient(s) To be announced at the closing
  ceremony

George Kokkinakis
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• Publications
• ISCApad
• monthly E-newspaper
• (last issue 86)
• ISCA life, job offers,
• conferences, under print
• papers,
• Elsevier contacts
• Speech Communication

Chris Wellekens
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• Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

EvaHajicova
SynSIG
Chinese SLP
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• Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• 11 SIGs
• The number of SIGs is increasing
• a new SIG established Italian AISV
• one SIG in-creation SIG on Iberian languages
• one SIG being negotiated regional SIG in India
• The main activities of SIGs organization of
  workshops
• Plans to involve SIGs more actively in the
  programme of INTERSPEECH

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• Training and Education
• Student Advisory Committee (SAC) (7 PhD students
  from 6 countries) started its work in 2004
• Aims Expanding membership services for students
  and establishing better communication between
  students
• Currently developing the Student Section of the
  ISCA website, which is planned to be a lively
  heart of the ISCA student community
• Starting version of Student Section of the ISCA
  website www.isca-students.org launched, new
  features (e.g., discussion forum) are planned to
  be added in the near future

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• Treasurers Report

• continued financial stability
• membership fee 50 -gt 55 euro in 2006
• growth in support new inititiatives (web,
  student committee, workshops)

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Conclusions

• ISCA is financially sound
• Dont hesitate to ask for financial support for
  your initiatives

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Approval of Reports

• Presidents Report
• Treasurers Report

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• Changes to the ISCA Board
• President Julia Hirschberg
• Vice-president Isabel Trancoso
• New members
• Jean-Francois Bonastre (France)
• David House (Sweden)
• Michael Picheny (USA)
• Isabel Trancoso (Portugal)
• Continuing members Hiroya Fujisaki, Sadaoki
  Furui, Eva Hajicova, Julia Hirschberg, Lin-shan
  Lee, Michael Wagner, Chris Wellekens
• Retiring members Gerrit Bloothooft, Rolf
  Carlson, Valerie Hazan, Hynek Hermansky, Wolfgang
  Hess, George Kokkinakis

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• Changes to ISCA Statutes
• Why?
• ISCA is a non-profit association regulated by
  French law
• Need to avoid ambiguities that could make ISCA
  liable to income tax

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• New Statutes
• A2.1 ISCA est une association à but non-lucratif.
  L'objet de l'association est de promouvoir dans
  un contexte international, à l'échelle mondiale,
  les activités et les échanges dans tous les
  domaines des sciences et des technologies de la
  communication parlée. Elle s'adresse à toutes les
  personnes (physiques et morales) qui
  s'intéressent aux recherches fondamentales et aux
  développements technologiques visant à décrire, à
  expliquer et à reproduire les différents aspects
  de la communication humaine par la parole,
  notamment et sans que cette liste soit
  limitative, la phonétique, la linguistique, la
  reconnaissance de la parole par ordinateur et sa
  synthèse, la compression de la parole, la
  reconnaissance du locuteur, aides au diagnostic
  médical de pathologies de la phonation,
• A2.1 ISCA is a non-profit organization. The
  purpose of the association is to promote, in an
  international world-wide context, activities and
  exchanges in all fields related to speech
  communication science and technology. The
  association is aimed at all persons and
  institutions interested in fundamental research
  and technological developments that aim at
  describing, explaining and reproducing the
  various aspects of human communication by speech,
  for example,  phonetics, linguistics, computer
  speech recognition and synthesis, speech
  compression, speaker recognition, aids to the
  medical diagnosis of voice pathologies,

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• New Statutes
• A2.2 L'association tentera d'atteindre ses
  objectifs a) en stimulant l'animation de la
  communauté scientifique et académique b) en
  facilitant la coordination de manifestations
  scientifiques (conférences, expositions,
  ateliers, etc..) c) en encourageant des actions
  de diffusion des connaissances et des
  informations (écoles saisonnières, lettres
  d'information périodiques, site Internet, etc...)
  d) en soutenant la publication et la diffusion
  de travaux scientifiques spécialisés e) en
  promouvant la diversité des thèmes de recherche
  et des langues étudiées f) en favorisant les
  échanges scientifiques g) en coopérant avec
  d'autres organisations h) en encourageant les
  relations entre le monde de la recherche et le
  secteur industriel i) en stimulant et en
  accompagnant les initiatives locales, régionales
  et globales j) par toute autre action d'intérêt
  général pour la communauté scientifique et
  technologique du domaine de la communication
  parlée.
• A2.2 The association will try to achieve its
  goals a) by stimulating activities by the
  scientific and academic community b) by
  facilitating the coordination of scientific
  events (conferences, exhibitions, workshops,
  etc...) c) by encouraging actions for
  disseminating knowledge and information (summer
  schools, regular newsletters, website, etc...)
  d) by supporting the publication and the
  dissemination of specialised scientific work e)
  by promoting the diversity of research themes and
  languages studied f) by facilitating scientific
  exchanges g) by cooperating with other
  organizations h) by encouraging relations
  between research and industry i) by stimulating
  and collaborating in local, regional and global
  initiatives j) by any other activities of
  general interest for the scientific and
  technological community, in the field of speech
  communication.

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ISCA Goals for 2005-6

• To expand international participation in ISCA
• To expand role of members in ISCA initiatives
• To support student-centered activities
• To increase cooperation with industry
• To introduce new ISCA web-based services
• To complete archive of past ISCA proceedings

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Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2006
ICSLP Pittsburgh, 17-22 September
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• Any Other Business?

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• Handover to the new
• ISCA President

Julia Hirschberg
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