SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP - ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'14) 14-16 May 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014

Organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) in cooperation with LIG (France), LIA Russia (France), and MICA (Vietnam).

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages is the fourth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Three previous Workshops were organized: SLTU’12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU’10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU’08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU’14 International Workshop is held in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) and has the special focus on Eastern European under-resourced languages (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Altaic, Caucasian, etc.).

SLTU'14 Workshop topics include all areas related to processing under-resourced and endangered languages: - Language resources development, acquisition, and representation: dictionary, language model, grammars, text and speech corpora, etc. - Automatic speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced Languages and dialects, etc. - Multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis and synthesis. - Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems.

** Scientific Committee: Etienne Barnard, NWU, South Africa Laurent Besacier, LIG, France Eric Castelli, MICA, Vietnam Dirk Van Compernolle, UCL, Belgium Marelie Davel, NWU, South Africa Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Russia Daniil Kocharov, SPbSU, Russia Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France Haizhou Li, A-star, Singapore Roger K. Moore, Sheffield, UK Pedro Moreno, Google, USA Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan Pascal Nocera, LIA, France Francois Pellegrino, Lyon, France Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Russia Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda, Japan Ruhi Sarikaya, Microsoft, USA Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe, Germany Pavel Skrelin, SPbSU, Russia Tan Tien Ping, USM, Malaysia

** Imporatnt Dates: - Paper submission: 10 January, 2014 - Update of full paper: 31 January, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: 03 March, 2014  - Submission of final papers: 17 March, 2014  - Registration due: 17 March, 2014  - Workshop dates: 14-16 May, 2014     Independently of the scientific actions we will provide excellent possibilities for acquaintance with cultural and historical valuables of St. Petersburg city and its beautiful surroundings.

For the latest information, please check the conference web page: www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014   SLTU'14 Workshop Chairs: Alexey Karpov  (SPIIRAS, Russia) Laurent Besacier  (LIG, France) Pascal Nocera  (LIA, France) Eric Castelli  (MICA, Vietnam)