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Sunday, October 10, 2010 by Chris Wellekens

7-3 Special Issue on Speech and Language Processing of Children's Speech for Child-machine Interaction Applications
  
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
                                 
                                                                      Special Issue on

        
                                     Speech and Language Processing of Children's Speech
                                   for Child-machine Interaction Applications

 

 
                                                                                        Call for Papers
 
The state-of the-art in  automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology is suitable  for a broad  range of interactive  applications. Although
children  represent an  important user  segment for  speech processing technologies,  the  acoustic  and  linguistic variability  present  in
children's speech poses additional challenges for designing successful interactive systems for children.

Acoustic  and  linguistic  characteristics  of children's  speech  are widely  different  from  those  of  adults and  voice  interaction  of
children with  computers opens challenging  research issues on  how to develop  effective  acoustic, language  and  pronunciation models  for
reliable recognition  of children's speech.  Furthermore, the behavior of children  interacting with  a computer is  also different  from the
behavior of adults. When using a conversational interface for example, children have a different language strategy for initiating and guiding
conversational exchanges, and may adopt different linguistic registers than adults.

In order to develop reliable voice-interactive systems further studies are  needed to  better  understand the  characteristics of  children's
speech and the different aspects of speech-based interaction including the role of speech in  multimodal interfaces. The development of pilot
systems for a broad range of applications is also important to provide  experimental evidence  of the degree  of progress in  ASR technologies
and  to focus  research on  application-specific problems  emerging by using systems in realistic operating environments.

We invite prospective authors to submit papers describing original and previously  unpublished work  in the  following broad  research areas:
analysis of children's speech, core technologies for ASR of children's speech,    conversational    interfaces,   multimodal    child-machine
interaction and computer  instructional systems for children. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech
  • Discourse analysis of spoken language in child-machine interaction
  • Intra- and inter-speaker variability in children's speech
  • Age-dependent characteristics of spoken language
  • Acoustic, language and pronunciation modeling in ASR for children
  • Spoken dialogue systems
  • Multimodal speech-based child-machine interaction
  • Computer assisted language acquisition and language learning
  • Tools  for children  with special  needs (speech  disorders, autism,  dyslexia, etc)

Papers  should have  a major  focus  on analysis  and/or acoustic  and linguistic processing of children's speech. Analysis studies should
be clearly  related to technology development  issues and implications should  be extensively discussed  in the  papers. Manuscripts  will be
peer reviewed according to the standard ACM TSLP process.

Submission Procedure
Authors should  follow the ACM TSLP  manuscript preparation guidelines described on  the journal web  site http://tslp.acm.org and  submit an
electronic  copy  of their  complete  manuscript  through the  journal manuscript  submission  site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm/tslp.
Authors are required to specify  that their submission is intended for this Special  Issue by including on  the first page  of the manuscript
and in the  field 'Author's Cover Letter' the  note 'Submitted for the Special Issue  on Speech and Language Processing  of Children's Speech
for Child-machine Interaction  Applications'. Without this indication, your submission cannot be considered for this Special Issue.

Schedule
Submission deadline: May 12, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2010
Final manuscript due: December 15, 2010

Guest Editors
Alexandros   Potamianos,  Technical   University   of  Crete,   Greece (potam@telecom.tuc.gr)
Diego Giuliani, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (giuliani@fbk.eu)
Shrikanth   Narayanan,   University   of  Southern   California,   USA (shri@sipi.usc.edu)
Kay  Berkling,   Inline  Internet  Online   GmbH,  Karlsruhe,  Germany (Kay@Berkling.com)

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