The step 1 for special session submissions closed on Monday, January 16.
The InterSpeech 2012 Organizing Committee especially encouraged proposals on interdisciplinary topics and themes and those in new emerging areas of interest to the broad InterSpeech community. Sessions that reflect the theme of the 2012 InterSpeech on applications of speech and language processing to biomedicine and health were particularly encouraged. Special sessions can also be an opportunity to bring researchers in relevant fields of interest outside the traditional speech and language fields, together with the InterSpeech community. Finally, there is an opportunity to concurrently propose special sessions with contributed papers in conjunction with a tutorial on the chosen theme.
NEW IN 2012: Special Session Proposal Process
Proposal Submission
Each special session proposal should contain the following information:
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Title of the proposed session
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Rationale summary: Provide up to 5 bullet points on what makes the session special (can include, but not limited to, technical aspects, format of the sessions, expected outcomes, people involved etc.)
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Names/affiliation of organizers (including brief bio and contact information)
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An overview (maximum 1 page) of the envisioned special session stating the importance of the topic and the objectives of the proposed session, the format, and any needed details/requirements that are needed to make the session successful. Proposals should clearly describe the topic and explain why the topic cannot be covered appropriately in regular sessions.
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A tentative/confirmed list of papers (titles/affiliations/authors) to be submitted to the proposed session.
Proposal Selection
The special session selection will follow a two-step process, and the acceptance of the special session will be finalized only at the conclusion of the technical program committee proceedings that decide the acceptance and rejection of the InterSpeech 2012 conference papers:
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Step 1: The proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee and the Technical Program committee for the relevance/significance of the topic and its potential for leading to a uniquely special session. The outcome of this step is (a) inclusion of the topic on the web site as a paper submission topic that authors can choose at the time of paper submission; this will be in addition to one or more of the regular technical area topics (b) invitation to the special session chairs as ad hoc members of the technical program committee (TPC) to help select peer reviewers and participate in the relevant TPC deliberations of the special session related papers. Note that papers for potential Special Sessions should be submitted following the same schedule/procedure as for regular papers, and will undergo the same peer reviewing process by anonymous and independent reviewers as regular papers. Special session organizers are welcome to contact potential authors to encourage their submission to the special session but with the clear understanding that acceptance is strictly based on peer review outcome.
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Step 2: Upon a suitable number of high quality papers accepted to the target special session (either directly submitted to the special session or identified by the TPC as possible fit), the Organizing committee will finalize the acceptance of the Special Session in the InterSpeech 2012 program. Upon approval, the special session organizers will work directly with the Organizing committee to implement the session at the conference.
*Please note that it is possible that some special sessions may not materialize at the end of Step 2.
Submission Procedure
Prospective organizers must have submitted a proposal to shri@sipi.usc.edu by January 16, 2012.
Notification regarding the inclusion (or not) of the topic as one of the submission topics for InterSpeech 2012 on January 31, 2012.
Questions? Contact:
Shri Narayanan
Special Sessions Chair
shri@sipi.usc.edu
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