12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
                                 (IWSLT 2015)

                         First Call for Papers

                           December 3-4, 2015
                           Da Nang, Vietnam

http://iwslt.org/


The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a
yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on
spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system
descriptions are presented. The 12th International Workshop on Spoken
Language Translation will take place in Da Nang, Vietnam on Dec. 03-04, 2015.


The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the
workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the
workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes original,
high quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the fields
of automatic speech recognition and machine translation that are applied to
spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
*  Speech and text MT
*  Integration of ASR and MT
*  MT and SLT approaches
*  MT and SLT evaluation
*  Language resources for MT and SLT
*  Open source software for MT and SLT
*  Adaptation in MT
*  Simultaneous speech translation
*  Speech translation of lectures
*  Spoken language summarization
*  Efficiency in MT
*  Stream-based algorithms for MT
*  Multilingual ASR and TTS
*  Rich transcription of speech for MT
*  Translation of non-verbal events

IMPORTANT DATES

* Sep 28, 2015: Paper Submission
* Nov 3, 2015:  Notification of acceptance
* Nov 13, 2015 : Camera-ready Submission
* Dec  3-4, 2015: Workshop

CONTACT

Jan Niehues, KIT (jan.niehues@kit.edu)