Emo-Spectre - Speech & Technology

A tool for multi-modal feature exploration in time-series data

Research on storytelling has focused strongly on the analysis of verbal transcripts. Innovative methods of computational analysis increasingly allow for the analysis of nonverbal expressions of emotions, including prosodic features and facial expressions. The workshop familiarizes researchers with a tool for the analysis and visualization of multimodal expressions of emotions in audiovisual materials. It provides an overview of relevant interdisciplinary work in psychology and affective computing, the application of the tool in a research project on life stories of older persons, and a hands-on workshop where participants can experiment with the tool.

The presentation (showed here) was part of the online workshop "Multimodal visualization of emotion expression" organized by the University of Twente in collaboration with the Netherlands eScience Center. It was part of the UTwente project "Emotion Recognition in Dementia".

For GitHub, see here.

20 May

Joint COLING and LREC conference

20-05-2024 - 25-05-2024

The three-day main conference (22-23-24, May) will be accompanied by a total of three days of workshops and tutorials (20-21-25, May) held in the days immediately before and after.

Two major international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Torino (Italy) on 20-25 May, 2024.

The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in computational linguistics, speech, multimodality, and natural language processing, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. Following in the tradition of the well-established parent conferences COLING and LREC, the joint conference will feature grand challenges and provide ample opportunity for attendees to exchange information and ideas through both oral presentations and extensive poster sessions, complemented by a friendly social program.

31 Aug

The Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop

31-08-2024

YFRSW 2024 The Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) is a workshop for female* Bachelor’s and Master’s students currently working in speech science and technology. The workshop aims to promote interest in research in our field among women* who have not yet committed to pursuing a PhD in speech science or technology, but who have already gained research experience at their universities through individual or group projects.

The workshop will be held prior to Interspeech 2024 on Saturday, August 31st, 2024. The event will take place in Greece. The workshop will feature panel discussions with PhD students and senior researchers in the field, student poster presentations, and a mentoring session. Student poster presentations should give an overview of a current or planned research project in which the student is involved, with an emphasis on promoting discussion.

For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw-2024/abstract-submission