IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology

SLT 2010

December 12-15, 2010

Berkeley, CA

www.slt2010.org

Call for Papers

The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. This workshop has been endorsed/sponsored by the ISCA and ACL as well. The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session.

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission: July 16, 2010

• Notification: September 1, 2010

• Workshop: December 12-15, 2010

Workshop Topics:

• Spoken language understanding

• Spoken document summarization

• Machine translation for speech

• Spoken language based systems

• Spoken language generation

• Question answering from speech

• Human/computer interaction

• Educational/healthcare applications

• Speech data mining

• Information extraction

• Spoken document retrieval

• Multimodal processing

• Spoken dialog systems

• Spoken language systems

• Spoken language databases

• Assistive technologies

Organizing Chairs:

• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI

• Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington

Technical Chairs:

• Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal

• Tim Paek, Microsoft Research

Area Chairs:

• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U.

• Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen

• Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI

• Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research

Finance Chair:

• Gokhan Tur, SRI International

Advisory Board:

• Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs

• Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs

• Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento

Demo Chairs:

• Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete

• Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech.

Publicity Chair:

• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM

• Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans

Panel Chairs:

• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech.

• Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.

Publication Chair:

• Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas

Local Organizers:

• Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International

• Murat Akbacak, SRI International

• Sibel Yaman, ICSI

• Arindam Mandal, SRI International

Europe Liaisons:

• Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon

• Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh

Asia Liaisons:

• Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong

• Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley

• Chris Manning, Stanford U.

• James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin

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CALL FOR PAPERS

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the SLaTE-2011 workshop
August 24-26, 2011 (before Interspeech-2011 in Florence, Italy)
Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/

ISCA-SIG SLaTE
The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information (http://www.sigslate.org).

WORKSHOP THEMES
The workshop will address all topics related to SLaTE, such as:
- Speech technology for education
- Natural language processing for education
- Spoken dialogue systems for education
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
- Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
- Development of language resources for SLaTE applications
- Assessment of SLaTE methods and applications

We especially welcome contributions on the future of Speech and Language Technology in Education, e.g. mobile learning, serious gaming, virtual reality, social media (networks), etc.
In addition, we would like to invite demonstrations of systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Full 4-page papers should be submitted before April 8, 2011.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers will be given by June 10, 2011.
For further information see http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/
If you have questions, you can send an e-mail to SLaTE2011-org (at) let.ru.nl

ORGANIZATION
SLaTE-2011 will be organized by Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, technical program), Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, local organizers), within the framework of the ISCA-SIG SLaTE (see http://www.sigslate.org).

Best regards,
Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Rodolfo Delmonte, and Rocco Tripodi
The SLaTE-2011 Organizing Committee

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