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The Italian Association of Speech Sciences (AISV) is happy to announce 
the AISV Annual Conference 2019 and the call for the submission of 
extended abstracts.

AISV 2019, AREZZO, FEBRUARY 14-16 2019; DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELLA 
FORMAZIONE, SCIENZE UMANE E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE INTERCULTURALE

AUDIO ARCHIVES AT THE CROSSROADS OF SPEECH SCIENCES, DIGITAL HUMANITIES 
AND DIGITAL HERITAGE

IMPORTANT DATES:

  	* ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 25 Sept. 2018
  	* NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 Oct. 2018
  	* CONFERENCE DATES:  14-16 Febr. 2019
  	* FULL PAPERS SUBMISSION: 15 March 2019

LINKS:

*AISV Annual Conference 2019 website: https://www.aisv.it/aisv2019/en/ 
[ENGLISH]; https://www.aisv.it/aisv2019/it/ [ITALIAN];

*AISV website: http://www.aisv.it

*EasyChair submission: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12905134;conf=aisv2019

* Contact for general information on the conference: [log in to unmask]

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

Audio archives are common in different disciplines within the social 
sciences and humanities and Information and Communications Technology, 
from the various fields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, 
dialectology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, etc) and speech 
technologies (natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, 
etc), to oral history, ethnography, sociology, anthropology, and 
psychology.

They contain vast amounts of information relevant to social sciences and 
humanities but at the same time they are underutilized material of 
intangible cultural heritage. Crucially, the fragmentation of archives, 
repositories, and data centres undermines the accessibility and reuse of 
oral archives.

The conference aims at discussing possibilities for a closer 
collaboration between speech scientists, conversation analysists, speech 
technologists and oral historians.

Potential questions include:

  	* What are the challenges involved in the re-use of speech and oral 
archives collected for other purposes?
  	* What kind of opportunities do oral archives provide for speech 
technology?
  	* What do linguistic uses of historical narratives look like? What are 
the opportunities and challenges of using oral history archives in 
linguistic research? What are the opportunities and challenges of 
phonetic tools for oral history and social sciences? In what ways could 
oral historians profit from a closer collaboration?
  	* What are the challenges involved in the long-term preservation and 
in the metadata description of digital archives? What are the challenges 
and the risks associated to legal and ethical issues?
  	* What are the opportunities and the threats associated to online 
audio archives sharing? What are the long-established standards and the 
welcomed ones? What are the online share-platforms and the forthcoming 
projects? What are the opportunities at EU level for the preservation 
and maintenance of audio archives?

Following the tradition of AISV conferences, the programme will also 
include open sessions on any aspect of speech science research.

The languages of the conference are Italian and English. Power Point 
presentations and posters should be written in English.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT:
Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 25 September. Abstracts 
should be written in English or Italian, and should be restricted to 
4000 characters (including spaces) and two pages in A4 format, including 
graphs and references. Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via 
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12905134;conf=aisv2019

INVITED SPEAKERS:

FRANCISKA DE JONG| UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CLARIN ERIC

“SPOKEN WORD ARCHIVES AS SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL DATA”

SPECIAL SESSION (SUPPORTED BY CLARIN ERIC):

CHRISTOPH DRAXLER, FLORIAN SCHIEL – BAVARIAN ARCHIVE FOR SPEECH SIGNALS 
LUDWIG MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY MUNICH, GERMANY

"Creating, Managing and Analysing Speech Databases using BAS Services 
and Emu: A Hands-On Tutorial"

PROCEEDINGS OF SELECTED PAPERS FROM PREVIOUS AISV CONFERENCES
* STUDI AISV 1: https://www.aisv.it/it/studi-aisv.html?start=1
* STUDI AISV 2: https://www.aisv.it/it/studi-aisv.html?start=2
* STUDI AISV 3: https://www.aisv.it/it/studi-aisv.html?start=3

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Fabio Ardolino (Università di Pisa)
Silvia Calamai (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Letizia Cirillo (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Caterina Pesce (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Duccio Piccardi (Università di Pisa)



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