ISCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTERSPEECH 2010
Makuhari, Japan
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Agenda
1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of
the 2009 General Assembly (Brighton)
2. President’s report
3. Treasurer’s report
4. Approval of the reports
5. Approval of proposed changes to ISCA Statutes
A4.1 and A5.1
6. ISCA goals for 2010-2011
7. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members
8. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly
9. Any other business
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Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly in
Brighton, UK, 8 September 2009, 6.00 pm
1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008
General Assembly (Brisbane)
2. President’s report
3. Treasurer’s report
4. Approval of the reports
5. Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board
6. ISCA goals for 2009-2010
7. Information on proposal to change ISCA Statute A4.1 which
restricts Board membership to two members per country
8. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members
9. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly
10. Any other business
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President’s Report
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The ISCA Board
Recent Board Meetings
Secretariat and Membership
Membership Services
ISCA Web
The ISCA Online Archive
Workshops
SIGs
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program
Industry Liaison
Liaison with other Organizations
Journals
Conferences
Grants and Awards
Student Liaison
ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material
Others
Isabel Trancoso
President
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ISCA Board
Ex-officio
Alan Black
Grants & Awards
J.François Bonastre
Vice-President
Haizhou Li
Web & Archive
Helen Meng
SAC Liaison
Yoshinori Sagisaka
DL, SIGs (language)
Yannis Stylianou
Educ., Video Archive
Nick Campbell
Workshops
Bernd Möbius
Treasurer
Tanja Schultz
Future Conferences
Keikichi Hirose
Fellows
David House
Secretary
Wolfgang Hess
Archive
D. O‘Shaugnessy
Conferences
Michael Picheny
SIGs, Ind., Journals
Chris Wellekens
ISCApad
Isabel Trancoso
President
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Recent Board Meetings
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Pittsburgh (2)
Virtual
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Antwerp (2)
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Brisbane (2)
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Taipei (at ICASSP)
Brighton (2)
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Dallas (at ICASSP)
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Virtual (informal)
Makuhari (1, +1 planned)
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Secretariat and Membership
• Direct contact with members
• Membership database
• Financial transactions and administration
– Support for ITRWs
– Membership dues
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David House
ISCA Secretary
Web content coordination
Documentation of ISCA board meetings
Elections to the Board and Advisory Council
ISCA Statutes and Bylaws
Please give us input and suggestions either this
week at the ISCA Booth or later:
secretariat@isca-speech.org
Manu Foxonet
Administrative
Assistant
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Membership Development
Membership From 1989 to 2010
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Number 180 220 325 340 430 470 525 560 1000 480 1084 415 1100 1325 1300 1350 1350 1300 1380 1551 1492 1420 1384 1450 1509 1580
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Membership by Category from 2001-2010
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800
Institut.
Retired
600
Students
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Membership by country (june 2010)
Japan
267
16,90% Norway
19 1,20% Iran
2 0,13%
USA
245
15,51% Czech Republic
18 1,14% Algeria
1 0,06%
France
200
12,66% India
16 1,01% Argentina
1 0,06%
Germany
106
6,71% Singapore
15 0,95% Bangladesh
1 0,06%
United Kingdom
97
6,14% Greece
14 0,89% Chile
1 0,06%
Korea
64
4,05% Brasil
12 0,76% Cuba
1 0,06%
China
49
3,10% Denmark
11 0,70% Egypt
1 0,06%
Spain
44
2,78% Hong Kong
11 0,70% Indonesia
1 0,06%
Netherlands
40
2,53% Poland
11 0,70% Latvia
1 0,06%
Australia
37
2,34% Austria
8 0,51% Lithuania
1 0,06%
Canada
32
2,03% Russia
8 0,51% Luxembourg
1 0,06%
Belgium
29
1,84% Israel
7 0,44% Malaysia
1 0,06%
Italy
29
1,84% South Africa
6 0,38% Malta
1 0,06%
Taiwan
27
1,71% Hungary
4 0,25% New Zealand
1 0,06%
Sweden
26
1,65% Thailand
4 0,25% Serbia
1 0,06%
Finland
25
1,58% Estonia
3 0,19% Slovakia
1 0,06%
Ireland
25
1,58% Slovenia
3 0,19% Ukraine
1 0,06%
Switzerland
22
1,39% Turkey
3 0,19% Zimbabwe
1 0,06%
Portugal
21
1,33% Vietnam
3 0,19%
Total: 1580
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Membership Services
Jean-François
Bonastre
Institutional Members:
An institutional member is a group membership for an
(unique) institution
Main idea:
– The IM institution could benefit from the ISCA members’
special prices for different people depending on the ISCA
event
– A simpler administrative procedure
Not very popular so far:
– Has been limited to 5 grouped subscriptions
– The members were not identified and and could not
participate individually in association activities (elections)
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Institutional Members - renewed
• For each IM, some people can be identified at the subscription
time as individual ISCA members
• Remaining members of the pack benefit also from the ISCA
reduced fees and can change on event to another
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members, 3 identified,
fees = 240 euros
members, 6 identified,
fees = 480 euros
members, 9 identified,
fees = 720 euros
members, 12 identified,
fees = 960 euros
(1 IM could subscribe for several packs)
• The IM are ISCA partners and benefit from:
– Logo in the ISCA website
– A DVD copy of the archive each year
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Web
• New service provider (InCampus) since July 2009
Haizhou Li
– Hosting ISCA Web and ISCA student portal in one location
• New ISCA Web was launched in December 2009
– Supported by a content management system for the first time
– New layout and ISCA Archive (IS & Workshop proceedings)
• New facelift of ISCApad since August 2010
– Online ISCApad publication
– New editorial facility
– Seamless integration with ISCA Web
• To come
– New ISCA membership portal ready in October 2010
Chris Wellekens
ISCApad
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The ISCA Online Archive
Wolfgang Hess
• Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and
ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987
to 2009 in machine-readable form
• > 100 events
• Available on website since August 2003
http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html
– Abstracts accessible for everybody
– Full papers accessible for members only
– Use your individual ISCA password to access
(password assistance on the web page)
• Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David
Gelbart and the Student Committee
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ISCA Workshops
(ITRWs and supported events)
2010
19 wrk/conf. sponsored
(2 ITRW)
Contact ISCA
for new event proposals
workshops@isca-speech.org
Nick Campbell
ISCA support for workshops
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Web and ISCAPAD announcements
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Grants for students
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Archive
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Secretariat support
Online banking service
Online registration
Monetary advance
Web/Mail announcement
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ISCA Workshops
(ITRWs and supported events)
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SSW7, Sept 2010, Kyoto
SAPA2010, September 2010, Tokyo
Blizzard Challenge, September,
Kyoto
SIGDIAL, September 2010, Tokyo
DiSS-LPSS, September 2010 Tokyo
TSD, September 2010, Brno
Exling, August 2010, Athens
ENTERFACE'10, Aqugust 2010,
Amsterdam
ACL, July 2010, Uppsala
Odyssey, June 2010, Brno
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QoMEX, June 2010, Trondheim
JEP, May 2010, Mons
LREC, May 2010, Malta
Speech Prosody, May 2010, Chicago
SLTU, May 2010, Penang
PROPOR, April 2010, Porto Alegre
ASRU, December 2009, Merano
MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy)
eaSDS, December 2009 (Germany)
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And 5 more in the next few months…
(see our new web page for details :- )
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Michael Picheny
AFCP
AISV
SIG-IL
AVISA
SaLTMIL
Chinese SLP
SIG-ILSP
SIGRU
LANGUAGES
SIGdial
SynSIG
TOPICS
SLaTE
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Representative SIG Activities:
• Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs
• International Conferences
– INTERSPEECH 2011 co-organized by AISV,
– INTERSPEECH 2013 co-organized by AFCP
• Workshops - e.g., AVSP 2010 (AVISA), Oriental –COSCODA
(SIG-CSLP), PROPOR 2010 (SIG-IL) SIGDIAL (in conjunction
with Interspeech 2010), Second Language Studies (Sept 2010),
, Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), SSW7 (SYNSIG, Sept. 2010), Speech
Prosody 2010 (SPROSIG)
• Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2010)
• Thesis prizes - AFCP, 2009 and SIG-IL, 2010
• Contributions to ISCApad
Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!
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ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program
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Sending Distinguished Lecturers to different parts of the world when
invited by a Regional Subcommittee
Selection Committee chaired by Sadaoki Furui
Sadaoki Furui
One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009
– Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Latin America in Aug 2009
• India in Dec 2009
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Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for 2009-2010
– Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Brazil in June 2010
– James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Yoshinori Sagisaka
• Planning the trip to Nepal in Nov 2010
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Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2009 for 2010-2011
– Li Deng, Microsoft Research at Redmond, USA
• Lecture Trips under planning
– Thierry DUTOIT, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
• Lecture Trips under planning
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Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2010
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Industry Liaison
• Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA
Michael Picheny
– Listed on ISCA website by logo with short descriptions
– Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates
• September 2009 at INTERSPEECH In Brighton
• September 2010 at INTERSPEECH in Makuhari
– Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus
• Leverages student resume service (in conjunction
with SAC and Education Coordinator) to help match
students with jobs, as well as ISCA webpage “JOBS“
section
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Liaison with other organizations
Yoshinori Sagisaka
• Liaison with organizations in speech and language
– ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA
– Encouragement of joint activities
– Representation in NAACL&HLT
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Journals
• ISCA has two journals: SPECOM and CSL
(SPECOM is a shared journal with EURASIP)
• Have decided to revive yearly paper awards,
merge award processes across journals and
coordinate with EURASIP
• Even years (2010, 2012...) ISCA will solely
present paper awards
• Odd years (2011, 2013) ISCA and EURASIP
will collaborate on SPECOM, and ISCA will
solely present awards for CSL
Michael Picheny
Jean-Francois
Bonastre
Yoshinori Sagisaka
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Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences
INTERSPEECH 2011: Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011
Douglas
O‘Shaugnessy
INTERSPEECH 2012: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 09-13, 2012
INTERSPEECH 2013: Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013
Call for proposals and guidelines for Interspeech-2014
(Nov. 1st. 2010 deadline)
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(click on: events, then on guidelines)
Tanja Schultz
Call for volunteer reviewers
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INTERSPEECH statistics
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Grants September 2009-10
Alan W Black
Total expenditure by
ISCA: ~20800 €
IS10: ~13000 €
Total: ~33800 €
52 Grants
9 events
25 Countries
By Country: (by institution of awardees)
USA 7, UK 5, France 4, India 4, plus others
By Continent:
NA: 8, Europe 23, Africa 1, SA 1, Asia 10, ANZ 5
Including extra support from IS2006 organizers
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2010: Applications 101, awarded 52, award rate 51%
2009: Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate 83%
2008: Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51%
Awardees are:
Students, First time presentation
SAC contributors
ISCA supported event, One grant per Institution
Exceptions sometimes made
Rejections are due to :
Applications from the same group, too many for event (Interspeech)
Please apply early through Online Application Website (yes, it works again!)
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Awards
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2010
Recipient: Steve Young
Alan W Black
6 new ISCA Fellows
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication
Journal 2007-2009
ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer and Language
Journal 2005-2009
3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2010
TBA Thursday at the Interspeech 2010 closing ceremony
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ISCA Fellows, 2010
Chair: Sadaoki Furui
Keikichi Hirose
9 nominations
6 awarded
Alex ACERO
Janet BAKER
John HANSEN
Lin-Shan LEE
Nelson MORGAN
Philip WOODLAND
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Student liaison
Helen Meng
ISCA Student Advisory Committee
Current Members
Samer Al Moubayed
General Coordinator
KTH, Sweden
Catherine Lai
Volunteers Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marcel Wältermann
Web Coordinator
Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin, Germany
Matt Speed
Content and Publicity Coordinator
University of York, United Kingdom
Members completing their term
Antonio Roque
Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti
Transition Coordinator
University of Southern California, USA
Educational Series Coordinator
University of Cambridge, UK
Sylvie Saget
Sunayana Sitaram
General Coordinator
Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI , France
Volunteers Coordinator
National Institute of Tech. India
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Student liaison
• Migration and complete renewal of the ISCA-SAC website
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www.isca-students.org
Now hosted in Singapore
(thanks to Dr. Haizhou Li and Tse Min Lua from InCampus)
State-of-the-Art Content Management Platform (Drupal 6)
New design and extended functionality
Central part: Blog for increased interactivity between ISCA-SAC
and students
– Re-implementation of the ISCA Grant Application System
– Forum
– Ongoing migration of all the functionality of the old website (e.g.,
books, theses, job listings)
• Membership drive!
– Visit our social networking sites at Facebook and Twitter!
– Meet us at the ISCA booth everyday between 12:00– 14:00!
• Maintenance of Google indexing of ISCA publications
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Student liaison
• YRRSDS'10 (Young Researchers Roundtable at the
Spoken Dialog Systems Workshop 2010)
– www.yrrsds.org
– An annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and
junior researchers working in research related to spoken
dialogue systems in both academia and industry
– YRRSDS'10 kindly hosted by Waseda Unviersity on
September 22-23, 2010
– Sponsors: Orange Labs (awaiting confirmation), Honda
Research Institute, Microsoft Research, AT&T, Aldebaran
Robotics, Dialonics
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ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2010
ISCA-SAC Student Panel Session
Speech Technology in the Next Decade 2010-2020
Visions from Academia and Industry
– Objective: Dialog between invited researchers and students!
– Prof. Alan Black: CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)
– Prof. Nick Campbell : Trinity College Dublin
– Dr. Ciprian Chelba: Google
– Dr. Bowen Zhou: IBM Research
– Organizer: ISCA-SAC
– Sponsors: ISCA
– Date: Wednesday (Sep 29, 13:30-15:30, Room 301)
All Are Welcome!
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Student liaison
• Interspeech 2010 Student Reception!
– Tuesday 28 September, from 19:15
– Venue: MTG (Makuhari Techno Garden) building, a 12minute walk northeast and inland from the conference site
– Bring your tickets!
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ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material
Yannis Stylianou
We plan to create Multimedia educational material from:
1. Keynote speeches and tutorials at ISCA conferences
and workshops
2. ISCA Distinguished Lectures
3. Researchers who are willing to provide short courses
on selected topics (by invitation at the beginning)
For this purpose:
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An ISCA Consent and Release Form was compiled (first time
will be used at Interspeech2010)
Convenient material dissemination practices are under
consideration (formats, server etc.)
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Treasurer’s Report
Highlights
Bernd MÖBIUS
• Positive result (income over expenditure) for 2009
• Expenditure for the benefit of members
– major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new web
hosting service
– continuous and increased grant support
• Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and
ITRW seed funding
• Consistent savings thanks to Student Committee
initiatives
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Treasurer’s Report
Income
2008
2009
Membership fees
*95,219
43,292
Interspeech donation
*73,095
40,520
ITRW shares
1,836
0
Proceedings
0
0
3,254
3,422
173,405
87,234
Interest on Savings
TOTAL (€)
* Two Interspeech conferences: Antwerp (2007) and Brisbane (2008)
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Treasurer’s Report
Expenditure (1)
2008
2009
Salaries
*26,615
35,356
Board/Committee meetings
**8,727
**6,923
2,583
4,263
12,490
18,911
0
0
5,508
6,841
55,923
72,294
Secretariat
Grants & Awards
Special Interest Groups
Website Administration
subtotal
* Lower because of maternity leave
** Includes room rent for committee meetings
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Treasurer’s Report
Expenditure (2)
2008
2009
55,923
72,294
Distinguished Lecturers
4,395
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Workshop support
1,000
1,200
0
0
738
455
Bank Costs
1,189
1,193
TOTAL (€)
63,245
75,142
Training & Education
Archive
* To incur in 2010
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Treasurer’s Report
Assets
31/12/2008
31/12/2009
161,244
208,434
39,000
0
200,244
208,434
PAYABLES
0
0
EQUITY (€)
200,244
208,434
BANK BALANCE
RECEIVABLES
TOTAL ASSETS (€)
Liabilities & Equity
Each year ISCA gives seed money to 1-2 Interspeech conferences and 1-2 workshops.
Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.
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Treasurer’s Report - Conclusion
• ISCA is financially sound
• ISCA will continue to provide seed money for
Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops:
– assets sufficient to support 1-2 Interspeech conferences and
workshops at any time
– reserves enable ISCA to reduce financial risks to conference
organizers, which potentially reduces registration fees
• ISCA is strengthening its support for grants,
international actions and groups, and new initiatives.
• New ideas are most welcome!
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Approval of Reports
Report
– President
– Treasurer
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Changes to the ISCA Statutes A4.1
Statute A4.1 restricts ISCA Board membership to no more than
two members per country. Possible changes to this restriction
were discussed at the General Assembly held last year in
Brighton, and now the Board is officially proposing increasing
the limit to three members per country:
Current: “No more than two members of the Board are permitted
from one country”
Proposed: “No more than three members of the Board are
permitted from one country”
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Changes to the ISCA Statutes A5.1
Statute A5.1 specifies the frequency of General
Assembly meetings to once every two years. In
practice, the General Assembly now meets at each
Interspeech Conference and therefore the Board
proposes the following change:
Current: “The General Assembly meets every two
years”
Proposed: “The General Assembly meets at least
every two years”
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Goals for 2010-11
• To enhance ISCA’s world position
– To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops
• To expand ISCA’s international aspects
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To support student-centered activities
Regional sub-committees
Remote access to lectures (DL program)
Improve the representation of underrepresented countries/regions
in the membership
To enhance the ISCA community
– To raise the impact factor of ISCA members’ publications
– To expand the ISCA video archive and virtual conferencing
– To understand members’ needs better and increase community
involvement
– To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research
– To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones
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Comments, Suggestions and Questions
from ISCA Members
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Next ISCA General Assembly
INTERSPEECH 2011
Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011
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Any Other Business?
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Changes to the ISCA Statute A4.1
Alternatives considered:
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Keep current restriction (max 2 per country)
B.
Increase limit to max 3 per country
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Include regional restrictions
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max 3-6 per region
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Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania
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Make restrictions proportional to membership representation
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need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult
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Remove restriction
Problem:
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None of the above options encourages diversity in field
The Board unanimously decided for option B:
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In view of extension to 14 members
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Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation
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This was presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but needs to be approved
now, in time for the next Board elections in April-May 2011
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