| 3-2-1 | (2016-05-09) 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16)5th
Workshop on Spoken Language
Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16) will be held on 9-12 May 2016 in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016
The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages
is the fifth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Four previous Workshops were
organized: SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa),
SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU?16 is held in
Yogyakarta (Indonesia), a centre of classical Javanese culture. There are more than
700 ethnic languages spoken in Indonesian archipelago, but 146 are endangered.
Therefore, SLTU?16 has special focus on under-resourced languages and endangered
languages, but other related topics are also encouraged.
SLTU?16 will continue the tradition of previous SLTUs that features a number of
distinguished keynote speaker, and this year, for the first time, SLTU will also offer
Kaldi Tutorial on Under-Resourced Language.
### Workshop Topics ###
Areas related to processing any under-resourced and
endangered languages:
- Fast resources acquisition (text and speech corpora, parallel text, dictionary,
grammars, language model)
- Spoken language processing for language without dictionary or written forms
- Cross-lingual and multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis
and synthesis
- Speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced languages and dialects
- Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems
- Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages
### Paper submission ###
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for
technical content (including figures, tables, etc) and possible references, plus
one additional (optional) page containing only references.
### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016
### Organizing Committee Members ###
- Workshop Chair:
Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)
- Workshop Co-chair:
Pascal Nocera (LIA, France)
Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Local Co-chair:
Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia)
Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia)
Web-site of the Workshop: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2016
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| 3-2-2 | (2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, Boston,MA, USA
Speech Prosody 2016, the eighth international conference on speech prosody,will be held at the Boston University from May 31st till June 3rd 2016. It invites papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody. Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.
Contact speechprosody2016.org speechprosody2016@gmail.com
Important Deadlines
- Submission for Proposals for Special Sessions: Sept 15, 2015
- Announcement of Special Sessions: Oct 1, 2015
- Submission of Regular Papers: November 15, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance (by email): January 15, 2016
- Early Registration Deadline: February 15, 2016
- Author's Registration Deadline: March 1, 2016
- Conference: May 31-June 3,2016
Review Areas
- Phonology and phonetics of prosody
- Prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects
- Signal processing
- Audiovisual prosody modeling and analysis
- Rhythm and timing
- Communicative situation and speaking style
- Prosody in computational linguistics
- Prosodic aspects of speech and language pathology
- Acquisition of first language prosody
- Psycholinguistic, cognitive, neural correlates of prosody
- Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Meta-linguistic and para-linguistic communication
- Prosody in language and music
- Voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics
- Prosody in Tone Languages
- Prosody of sign language
- Prosody in language contact and second language acquisition
- Prosody in automatic speech synthesis, recognition and understanding
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