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3-2-2 (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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