Final Call for Papers: ASRU 2011 (IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
Final CFP: ASRU 2011
Location: 
Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort
Sunday, 11 December 2011 to Thursday, 15 December 2011
State: 
Hawaii
Country: 
USA
Contact Email: 
City: 
Big Island
Contact: 
ASRU Organizing Committee
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 1 July 2011

ASRU 2011
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Big Island, Hawaii
December 11-15, 2011
http://www.asru2011.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

The twelfth IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 11-15, 2011. 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 and understanding.

** Workshop Topics **
Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is encouraged, with emphasis placed on:
- Automatic speech recognition and understanding
- Human speech recognition and understanding
- Speech-to-text systems
- Spoken dialog systems
- Multilingual language processing
- Robustness in ASR
- Spoken document retrieval
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Text-to-speech systems
- Spontaneous speech processing
- Speech summarization
- New applications of ASR

** Schedule **
Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2011
Paper acceptance/rejection: 20 August 2011
Early registration deadline: 15 October 2011
Workshop: 11-15 December 2011

** Technical Program **
The workshop program will consist of oral and poster presentations, including invited overview lectures covering major areas of the field. In addition, there will be four keynote addresses by well-known experts on such related topics as machine learning and pattern classification.

** Submission Procedure **
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the ASRU 2011 website (http://www.asru2011.org). All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

** Registration and information **
Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given to paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2011 website, http://www.asru2011.org, where more information on the workshop will be available.