CFP: 'Speaker Classification'

Special Issue Details

Christian Müller from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Susanne Schötz from the University of Lund (Sweden) are editing a collection on speaker classification which is published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series (section 'State-of-the-Art Surveys' respectively 'Hot-Topics'). In parallel to the printed book, it is published in full-text electronic form via the Springer internet platform www.springerlink.com.

http://www.dfki.de/~cmueller/lnai

Call for Papers
We invite contributions in a variety of areas related to speaker classification, including artificial intelligence (machine learning, pattern classification), natural language technology as well as phonetics. The term speaker classification is thereby defined as the process of assigning a vector of speech features to a discrete speaker

List of Topics

The list of topics includes (but is not restricted to):

	identifying the speakers identity
	accent identification
	dialect identification
	sociolect identification
	language identification
	age and gender recognition
	emotion recognition
	recognition of cognitive state (e.g. working memory load)
	acquiring any other kind of information about the speaker on the basis of her/his speech or speaking behavior

Please note that we explicitely allow contributions that have already been published in conference proceedings or journals. Novel papers are welcome as well, of course. If you submit an abstract of already published concepts, please refer to the proceedings or journal.

Submission Procedure

If you are interested in contributing to the book, please send an abstract to Christian.Mueller

dfki.de. The abstract has not to be formatted. Feel free to send .doc, .pdf, .txt or .tex files.

Important Dates

abstract submissions due	April 30, 2006 (earlier submissions are welcome)
notification of acceptance	June 1, 2006
full paper manuscripts due	open, scheduled for August 2006
camera read versions due	open, scheduled for September 2006
publication of the book	open, scheduled for October 2006

For more information, please contact Christian Müller.

Formatting Instructions

For formatting the full manuscripts, please follow the formatting instructions provided by Springer.

Deadline: 29 April 2006

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CFP: 'Speaker Classification'

List of Topics

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Important Dates

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