TY - GEN
T1 - Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: The ADReSS Challenge
AU - Luz, Saturnino
AU - Haider, Fasih
AU - Fuente, Sofia de la
AU - Fromm, Davida
AU - MacWhinney, Brian
N1 - Date of Aceeptance: 26/07/2020
From: Technical Program Chairs, Interspeech 2020
To: LUZ FILHO Saturnino
Cc: LUZ FILHO Saturnino, [email protected], DE LA FUENTE GARCIA Sofia,
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Your Interspeech 2020 Submission (Number 2571)
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Date: Sun 26 Jul 2020 02:41:29 BST
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Dear Saturnino Luz:
The peer review process for Interspeech 2020 is now completed. The Area Chairs have thoroughly analysed the comments and scores of the reviewers in making decisions, and put together an exciting technical program for the conference. Given the exceptionally large number of high-quality submissions received, this has proved to be a difficult task, and many interesting papers could not be included.
We are pleased to inform you that your paper
Paper ID: 2571
Title: Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: The ADReSS Challenge
has been selected for presentation at the conference. Due to the rapid world-wide spreading of the new coronavirus infections (COVID-19), the organizing committee has made a decision to hold Interspeech 2020 as a virtual conference (online). Thus, we do not distinguish between oral and poster.
Please read through the rest of this email carefully as it contains important information related to revising and presenting your paper, registration and travel information, student grants and opportunities, and further events.
1. Paper Revision
The reviews of your paper are included at the end of this message and are also available online (see below). Please go through the reviews methodically and pay careful attention to the suggestions by the reviewers.
Please ensure that the final manuscript for your paper fully complies with the paper preparation guidelines available at
http://www.interspeech2020.org/Authors/Paper_Submission/
by using the provided templates and information therein.
In particular, make sure that you use this year's author kit, that your paper is in A4 format, and that there is nothing but references on the 5th page. Be aware that papers that do not conform to the format specifications will not be published in the proceedings.
You have an opportunity until August 7, 2020 (AoE) to update your manuscript.
When you are finished, you can upload your final manuscript at the following site:
https://www.softconf.com/j/interspeech2020/
You will be prompted to login to your START account. If you do not see your submission, you can access it with the following passcode:
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Alternatively, you can click on the following URL, which will take you directly to a form to submit your final paper (after logging into your account):
https://www.softconf.com/j/interspeech2020/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=aLogin&passcode=***********
If you do submit an updated paper, keep in mind that the updated version must maintain the title, authors (in the same order) and abstract of the originally submitted version, and that text changes should remain limited. The Technical Program Committee reserves the right to disregard your changes if the new version differs too much from what the reviewers accepted.
Again, the deadline for submission of an updated paper is August 7, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth), no extension will be granted for any reason.
2. Paper Presentation
The presentation guidelines, details, and schedule for your paper will be made available soon at the following URL:
http://www.interspeech2020.org/Program/Program/
You will be notified by email when the details about session scheduling and instructions for preparing your presentation become available.
3. Registration
Each paper must be covered by at least by one of its co-authors with a full, student, or a retired registration. Participants registering as retired will be able to cover only one paper for presentation and publication, whereas students can cover at most two papers, and participants paying a full registration can cover a maximum of 4 papers including papers from Show-and-Tell if any. Papers will only be accepted and published in the proceedings if at least one of its authors has officially registered for the conference. The registration portal will open soon, for more information see the conference website:
<http://www.interspeech2020.org/Registration/>http://www.interspeech2020.org/Registration
Please note that every paper must also be presented by one of the authors of the paper.
4. Event and Venue details
The main conference website is
<http://www.interspeech2020.org/>http://www.interspeech2020.org/
Any question related to the disposition of your paper should be directed to [email protected].
For any other questions, please visit
http://www.interspeech2020.org/contact/Contact_Us/
Congratulations on your successful contribution to Interspeech 2020.
Best Regards,
Technical Program Chairs, Interspeech 2020
Interspeech 2020
PY - 2020/10/16
Y1 - 2020/10/16
N2 - The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 defines a shared task through which different approaches to the automated recognition of Alzheimer's dementia based on spontaneous speech can be compared. ADReSS provides researchers with a benchmark speech dataset which has been acoustically pre-processed and balanced in terms of age and gender, defining two cognitive assessment tasks, namely: the Alzheimer's speech classification task and the neuropsychological score regression task. In the Alzheimer's speech classification task, ADReSS challenge participants create models for classifying speech as dementia or healthy control speech. In the the neuropsychological score regression task, participants create models to predict mini-mental state examination scores. This paper describes the ADReSS Challenge in detail and presents a baseline for both tasks, including a feature extraction procedure and results for a classification and a regression model. ADReSS aims to provide the speech and language Alzheimer's research community with a platform for comprehensive methodological comparisons. This will contribute to addressing the lack of standardisation that currently affects the field and shed light on avenues for future research and clinical applicability.
AB - The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 defines a shared task through which different approaches to the automated recognition of Alzheimer's dementia based on spontaneous speech can be compared. ADReSS provides researchers with a benchmark speech dataset which has been acoustically pre-processed and balanced in terms of age and gender, defining two cognitive assessment tasks, namely: the Alzheimer's speech classification task and the neuropsychological score regression task. In the Alzheimer's speech classification task, ADReSS challenge participants create models for classifying speech as dementia or healthy control speech. In the the neuropsychological score regression task, participants create models to predict mini-mental state examination scores. This paper describes the ADReSS Challenge in detail and presents a baseline for both tasks, including a feature extraction procedure and results for a classification and a regression model. ADReSS aims to provide the speech and language Alzheimer's research community with a platform for comprehensive methodological comparisons. This will contribute to addressing the lack of standardisation that currently affects the field and shed light on avenues for future research and clinical applicability.
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KW - cs.LG
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UR - http://www.interspeech2020.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=315&id=755
U2 - 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2571
DO - 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2571
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 2172
EP - 2176
BT - INTERSPEECH 2020
PB - ISCA
T2 - Interspeech 2020
Y2 - 25 October 2020 through 29 October 2020
ER -