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Call for Papers
Workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data (FSMD 2013)
http://www2.nict.go.jp/univ-com/isp/fsmd2013/index.html
in conjunction with
The 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Milan, Italy, June 3-6, 2013
Date of Workshop: June 3, 2013
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Workshop General Co-Chairs:

Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
Sung Hyon Myaeng, KAIST, Korea

Scope and Theme:

Advances of speech recognition technologies for mobile devices like
smart phones has made "speech data" an integral part of mobile data
management. More and more attentions from both academics and
industries are paid to voice user interfaces (VUI), multilingual
translation, audio-video transcription, and even speech-to-blogging
for mobile devices. Hereafter, management of real-world "field"
speech data will be crucial for searching, analyzing, sharing, and
delivering them in mobile service networks. With special emphasis on
management of real-world "field" speech data, a new ICT platform
integrating speech communication and cyber-physical systems will be
introduced. On this platform, we can expect novel applications
harnessing mobile speech data management, such as knowledge discovery
form speech log data, situation awareness in real-world human
communication, hands-free interaction using head-mounted display with
speech input augmented by linguistic and sensory data. In this
workshop we aim to provide a venue for academic and industrial
discussions on "cross-cutting" technologies and open problems on
speech data management and their applications for mobile devices.

The list of topics includes but is not limited to:

* Field speech data processing
* Speech recognition for mobile devices
* Speech-to-speech translation
* Spoken dialog systems
* Voice user interfaces
* Speech data mining
* Spoken document retrieval
* Cyber-physical systems
* Internet of Things
* Security and privacy for mobile speech data management
* Spatio-temporal databases
* Audio and video transcriptions for mobile multimedia
* Multimodal processing
* Data engineering and information management
* Social networks
* Smart-X services
* Service computing & Cloud computing with speech data

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: January 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 6, 2013
Final manuscript due: March 13, 2013
Workshop date: June 3, 2013

Submission Guidelines:

FSMD 2013 adopts the standard peer review procedure, hence
submissions should not be anonymized. Our paper submission website
will be open for papers (up to 10 pages, following the same
guidelines as the IEEE MDM 2013 full papers) until January 31,
2013, 11:59 pm PST. In addition to the full-length papers, the
Program Committee may accept some as short papers which will be
requested to be shortened. Submission instructions will be
available at our website:
http://www2.nict.go.jp/univ-com/isp/fsmd2013/submission.html

Contact:

For questions, please contact the FSMD2013 organizing committee at
the following e-mail address: fsmd2013-contact@khn.nict.go.jp