ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

December 13-17, 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

http://asru2015.org

Twitter: @ASRU2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The fourteenth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 13-17, 2015 in Scottsdale, Arizona - USA. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition, understanding, and related fields of research.

TOPICS AND FOCUS

Authors are encouraged to submit contributions in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics:

-              Automatic speech recognition

-              Spoken language understanding

-              Speech-to-text systems

-              Spoken dialog systems

-              Multilingual language processing

-              Robustness in automatic speech recognition

-              Spoken document retrieval

-              Speech-to-speech translation

-              Text-to-speech systems

-              Spontaneous speech processing

-              Speech summarization

-              New applications of automatic speech recognition

FORMAT

The workshop features one keynote and one or two invited talks a day. Regular papers are presented as posters. See http://asru2015.org for formatting guidelines. ASRU 2015 will also include challenge tasks, panel discussions and demo sessions.

CHALLENGE TASKS

Three challenge tasks will be reporting results at ASRU 2015:

-              3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge - http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge

-              Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) - https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933624

-              Multi-genre Broadcast Media Transcription Challenge - http://www.mgb-challenge.org/

Papers related to the challenges will be submitted, reviewed, and evaluated in the same way as all ASRU papers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters in special sessions for each challenge task. 

The challenges themselves are run by their respective organizers, independently of ASRU 2015.   See http://asru2015.org/Challenges.asp for participation details. 

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures, plus 1-2 additional pages for references only. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically.

SCHEDULE

Paper due date: Friday July 10, 2015

Paper Notification: Friday Sept 11, 2015

Registration opens: Friday Sept 11, 2015

Demo/toolkit deadline: Friday Sept 25, 2015

Paper Camera ready version due: Friday Oct 2, 2015

Demo/toolkit notification date: Friday Oct 9, 2015

Author and early registration end: Friday Oct 23, 2015

Demo/toolkit camera ready version due: Monday Oct 26, 2015

Workshop: Dec 13-17, 2015

MORE INFORMATION

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