IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology

SLT 2010

December 12-15, 2010

Berkeley, CA

www.slt2010.org

Call for Papers

The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. This workshop has been endorsed/sponsored by the ISCA and ACL as well. The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session.

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission: July 16, 2010

• Notification: September 1, 2010

• Workshop: December 12-15, 2010

Workshop Topics:

• Spoken language understanding

• Spoken document summarization

• Machine translation for speech

• Spoken language based systems

• Spoken language generation

• Question answering from speech

• Human/computer interaction

• Educational/healthcare applications

• Speech data mining

• Information extraction

• Spoken document retrieval

• Multimodal processing

• Spoken dialog systems

• Spoken language systems

• Spoken language databases

• Assistive technologies

Organizing Chairs:

• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI

• Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington

Technical Chairs:

• Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal

• Tim Paek, Microsoft Research

Area Chairs:

• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U.

• Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen

• Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI

• Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research

Finance Chair:

• Gokhan Tur, SRI International

Advisory Board:

• Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs

• Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs

• Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento

Demo Chairs:

• Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete

• Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech.

Publicity Chair:

• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM

• Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans

Panel Chairs:

• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech.

• Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.

Publication Chair:

• Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas

Local Organizers:

• Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International

• Murat Akbacak, SRI International

• Sibel Yaman, ICSI

• Arindam Mandal, SRI International

Europe Liaisons:

• Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon

• Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh

Asia Liaisons:

• Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong

• Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley

• Chris Manning, Stanford U.

• James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin