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DiSS workshop 2023
News / Updates / August 2023
It is August already and that means it is DiSS time of year! Thanks to all authors for contributing interesting papers! We have crafted a preliminary programme (cf. "Programme") and made a minor adjustment to the intended workshop structure. We were able to exactly fill the first two days with the talks, so we decided to not have a full special day on laughter. For the third day (Wednesday 30th) we installed a session on methodology to conclude the workshop. Simon Betz will give a short introductory talk on methodological issues in the field of disfluency research, after which there will be plenary and group discussions. This last session is intended to last from 9-12, anyone interested in staying for lunch and informal exchange after that is cordially invited to do so!
If you have particular issues that you want to discuss at the workshop, please let us know in advance so that we are able to prepare a slot on Wednesday. This may be anything regarding methods (e.g. which corpora are suitable, how can we train annotators, how can we generalize from experimental findings, etc.) or any other subject touching the topics of disfluency and laughter.
Venue
The conference will take place at
CITEC
Inspiration 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
Directions:
We recommend traveling by train. Bielefeld is situated on the train route Cologne-Berlin and is reached by several IC / ICE trains per hour.
To P&P from Inner City / Main Station: The central tram stops are Hauptbahnhof (main station), Jahnplatz and Rathaus. From any of these, take Tram 4 towards "Lohmannshof" and exit at "Wellensiek".
Trams go at least every 10 Minutes. At Wellensiek, cross the street to the right of the tram in direction of travel and walk through the green hills towards the campus buildings (see map). When you reach the campus buildings, the first one is the Hochschule HSBI. Pass that and enter the building labeled "CITEC" to the left across the plaza.
Directions - Car and Plane
By Car:
From the north: You can take the A2 from Hannover to Dortmund, exit at "Bielefeld-Zentrum", Detmolder Straße with direction towards the centre ("Zentrum"), and from there the University ("Universität") is signposted. To get to CITEC, follow Universitätsstraße, Erfahrung and turn right into Assoziation and from there into Inspiration.
From the south: You can take the A2 from Dortmund to Hannover. At "Dreieck Bielefeld" on the A33 towards "Bielefeld-Zentrum", exit "Bielefeld-Zentrum", towards Zentrum on the B61, exit "Universität", way over Stapenhorststr., Kurt-Schumacher-Str., Universitätsstraße, Erfahrung, then turn right into Assoziation and from there into Inspiration.
We recommend to use the address "Zehlendorfer Damm 201" (old street name) or "Assoziation" (side street) as destination, because most navigation systems aren't able to locate the street "Inspiration" yet.
In case you find the CITEC car park locked, please call 0049 521 106 3537 or 0049 172 56 666 87.
From Airports:
The best connected airport is Düsseldorf, from which there is hourly train service to Bielefeld. Other reachable Airports are Dortmund, Paderborn, Hannover, Köln/Bonn and Münster/Osnabrück, from which there are public transport connections as well, but they might be more complicated than from Düsseldorf.
Organizers
Simon Betz (Bielefeld University)
Bogdan Ludusan (Bielefeld University)
Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University)
Malte Belz (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Loulou Kosmala (Université Paris Nanterre)
Loredana Schettino (University of Naples Federico II)
Dates
April 16th paper submission deadline
May 22nd notification of acceptance
June 16th camera-ready version due
June 23rd author registration deadline
July 28th registration deadline
August 28-30 DiSS workshop
Call for Papers
We are happy to announce that the DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech) will take place in Bielefeld, Germany August 28-30. The third day will be a special day on laughter and other nonverbal phenomena to connect disfluency research to research on related phenomena.
The workshop will take place shortly after INTERSPEECH in Dublin. Papers submitted to the workshop will be published as open access.
The workshop will be an ISCA-sponsored event. As such, there will be three student travel grants available!
Submissions are encouraged from all fields that deal with disfluency, laughter and other related phenomena. This includes, among others: psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, gesture analysis, dialogue systems, speech production and perception.
Looking forward to seeing you in Bielefeld!
Registration
Please refer to "dates" for the deadlines.
Fees
Full Registration: 160€
Student Registration: 120€
ISCA Member: 140€
ISCA Student: 100€
Registration Process
Please send an email with the subject "DiSS 2023 registration" and the following information to simon.betz@uni-bielefeld.de and add susanne.strunk@uni-bielefeld.de in CC:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Address
- Email Address
- Dietary Restrictions
- Paper ID (if you are an author)
- Type of registration (Full, Student, ISCA Member, ISCA Student)
In case you apply for the ISCA reduced rate, please attach a screenshot of your ISCA membership page showing that your membership will be valid at the time of the conference.
You will receive an invoice via email which will have to be settled by bank transfer.
Please send us the proof of payment before the end of the registration deadline.
Note that there are ISCA travel grants for students available! More information on how to apply for them here.
Submission
Please refer to "dates" for the deadlines and to "call" for the areas of interest.
Paper template
Please use the following (Interspeech) template for preparing your submission. You are free to use LaTeX or Word, please submit one PDF file.
Submitting the manuscript
DiSS2023 uses Microsoft CMT for managing the conference. You need to create a free account in order to submit to DiSS. Use this link for submission.
Troubleshooting
In case you are unable to log in using the above submission link despite using your correct password, try logging in to CMT main page here and then try the above link again.
Scientific Committee
Jens Allwood
Charlotte Bellinghausen
Malte Belz
Simon Betz
Judit Bóna
Francesco Cutugno
Ivana Didirkova
Robert Eklund
Kerstin Fischer
Jonathan Ginzburg
Tilbe Göksun
Mária Gosy
Sandra Götz-Lehmann
Chiara Mazzocconi
Gary McKeown
Simon King
Loulou Kosmala
Clara Lachenmaier
Soledad López Gambino
Bogdan Ludusan
Alexandra Markó
Maria di Maro
Jessica di Napoli
Oliver Niebuhr
Aurélie Pistono
Magdalena Rychlowska
Loredana Schettino
David Schlangen
Vered Silber Varod
Khiet Truong
Petra Wagner
Katharina Zahner-Ritter
Sina Zarrieß