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Sunday, February 09, 2014 by Chris Wellekens

3-3-14 (2014-05-14) CfP SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP , St Petersburg, Russia
  

SLTU-2014 – LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

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4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU-2014)

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 (France), and MICA (Vietnam). SLTU-2014 is sponsored or supported by the ISCA association, EURASIP association, Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

 

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages is the fourth in a series of even-year SLTU events. Three previous Workshops were organized: SLTU’12 in Cape Town, SLTU’10 in Penang, and SLTU’08 in Hanoi. SLTU’14 Workshop is held in St. Petersburg (Russia) and has the special focus on Eastern European under-resourced languages (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Altaic, Caucasian, Turkic, etc.), but papers on automatic processing other under-resourced languages are also encouraged.

 

SLTU-2014 Workshop topics include all areas related to processing any 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, etc.

 

Speech Communication special issue on processing under-resourced languages was recently prepared by SLTU board: www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676393/56

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa

Laurent Besacier, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France

Eric Castelli, MICA Institute, Vietnam

Dirk Van Compernolle, KU Leuven, Belgium

Marelie Davel, North-West University, South Africa

Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Russia

Daniil Kocharov, St.Petersburg State University, Russia

Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France

Haizhou Li, A-Star, Singapore

Roger K. Moore, University of Sheffield, UK

Pedro Moreno, Google, USA

Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan

Pascal Nocera, University of Avignon, France

Francois Pellegrino, Lyon, France

Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Russia

Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda University, Japan

Ruhi Sarikaya, Microsoft, USA

Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Pavel Skrelin, St.Petersburg State University, Russia

Tan Tien Ping, USM University, Malaysia

 

Two keynote lectures on SLTU topics will be given by Prof. Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) and Prof. Mark Gales (University of Cambridge, UK).

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Full paper submission: 10 February 2014 (extended deadline)

- Notification of paper 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.

 

SLTU-2014 Workshop Chairs:

Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russia)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)

Pascal Nocera (LIA, France)

Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)

 

For the latest information, please check the Workshop web page: www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014

 


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