Workshops, summer schools, and shared tasks organized and co-organized by GAMMA Lab at major venues in speech, audio, and language research.
The Sound and Language Multimodal Analysis (SALMA) workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of audio understanding and language models. SALMA explores how large language models can be grounded in acoustic perception — covering audio captioning, question answering, audio-text retrieval, and beyond. Organized by GAMMA Lab members as part of ICASSP 2025.
Workshop websiteJohns Hopkins Summer Workshop on Language Engineering Technologies (JSALT) is a prestigious six-week research intensive bringing together leading researchers and students to tackle ambitious problems in speech and language. GAMMA Lab members participate in and contribute to collaborative research projects spanning audio understanding, spoken language processing, and multimodal AI at the 2025 edition hosted in Brno.
Workshop websiteGAMMA Lab co-organizes the Audio Question Answering (AQA) shared task at DCASE 2025, challenging participants to build systems that answer natural language questions about acoustic scenes and events. The challenge is grounded in the MMAU benchmark and evaluates systems on their ability to perform perceptual, semantic, and compositional reasoning about audio content. Workshop held October 30–31 in Barcelona.
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