Review Process for ICASSP 2005

 

The Speech Technical Committee (STC) received 572 papers for ICASSP 2005. This represents nearly a 9% increase from ICASSP 2004 and ICASSP 2003. About 51% of the papers were rejected. A rigorous review process was implemented in which each paper was essentially reviewed by at least 3 people; one being STC member and 2 external reviewers. The review process included 150 external reviewers and 46 STC members; 9 of the STC members acted as Area Chairs, working closely with the STC team members to integrate the final scores, define accept/reject, form technical sessions and identify session chairs. Here are lists of those who contributed the reviewing process:

For ICASSP 2005, the STC adopted a new speech EDICS classification of topics in order for ICASSP to align with recent advancements in speech and language processing research. As a result of this change, we experienced nearly 50% increase in speaker recognition papers, nearly 50% increase in spoken language technology papers and a modest 5% of new submissions in the areas of speech data mining and multimodal/multimedia Human/Computer interfaces. Detailed statistics of the paper submission is shown in the Table below.

 

The STC has been successful in attracting two very strong special sessions on Human Language Technology that will be organized by M. Ostendorf, E. Shriberg and A. Stolke. We have also been successful in hosting a unique tutorial on "Machine Learning for Speech and Language processing" that will be given by  J. Bilmes and P. Haffner.

 

Hope to see you in  Philadelphia next March.

 

Area

Number of Papers

Speech Production

6

Speech Perception

8

Speech Analysis

58

Speech Synthesis

46

Speech Coding

32

Speech Enhancement

48

Acoustic Modeling

64

Robustness

74

Adaptation/Normalization

26

General Topics in ASR

35

Language Modeling

16

Large-vocabulary ASR

24

Speaker Recognition

64

Spoken Language Processing

45

Human/Computer Interaction

5

Multimedia/Multimodal

8

Data Mining and Search

13