Call for Bids -

                                                   SLT-2014

Following on the tremendous success of SLT 2012, the SPS-SLTC invites proposals to host the 2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT-2014). Past SLT workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn.
The proposal should include the information outlined below.
* Workshop location and practicalities     o Geographical location     o Workshop venue (facilities, meeting rooms, network access      during the workshop, audio/visual equipment)     o Accommodation -- hotel availability and pricing
   o Meals     o Transportation options -- major airports, logistics, visas     o Climate
* Approximate workshop dates     o Previous workshops have been held in the month of December.
* Rough budget and expected sponsorship.     o Approximately how much will participants need to pay to attend,     including accommodation and meals as well as registration.     o Estimated budget for e.g. 100/150 participants and expected     sponsorships. This should include venue costs, administration,    banquet, coffee breaks, publication costs, etc.(Note, unlike  larger conferences such as ICASSP, Interspeech, smaller workshops
    do not have sufficient registration fees to cover the total workshop costs. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is particularly
    motivated to see that both workshop and conference costs are held      to levels which allow the diverse membership equal opportunities      to participate without registration costs being a major barrier).
* Technical committee
* Local arrangements.     o Who will be in charge of organizing the workshop, and how      will finances be handled (e.g., will participants be able to      pay by credit card)?
* Tentative schedule.     o Paper submission, notification of acceptance, proposals for      demonstrations, early registration
   o Reception, talks, posters, demo session, banquet, etc.

If you would like to be the organizer(s) of SLT-2014, please send the Workshop Sub-Committee a draft proposal before April 1, 2013. (Point of contact:gsaon@us.ibm.com). Proposals will be evaluated by the SPS SLTC, with a decision expected in June.
The organizers of the ASRU workshop do not have to be SLTC members, and we encourage submissions from all potential organizers. So we encourage you to distribute this call for proposals far and wide to invite members of the speech and language community at large to submit a proposal to organize the next SLT workshop.
For more information on the most recent workshops, please see:
*http://www.slt2012.org/for information about SLT-2012 in Miami, Florida
*http://www.slt2010.org/for information about SLT-2010 in Berkeley, California
*http://www.slt2008.org/for information about SLT-2008 in Goa, India
SPS-SLTC Workshop Sub-Committee Nick Campbell George Saon Geoffrey Zweig