2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
SLT 2014
Sunday, 7 December 2014 to Wednesday, 10 December 2014
State: 
California and Nevada
Country: 
USA
City: 
South Lake Tahoe
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 21 July 2014

The 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) will be held in South Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, on Dec 7-10, 2014. (http://www.slt2014.org). The main theme of the workshop will be "machine learning in spoken language technologies". One of our goals is to increase both intra and inter community interaction, by means of (inter alia)
• keynote/guest speakers from machine learning community (e.g. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and others);
• online panel discussions before/during the conference;
• miniSIGs - small discussion groups to get organized before/during /after the panel discussions or as independent SIG meetings;
• highlight sessions, where 3-5 best papers will be presented orally.

Following tradition from the last two SLT workshops in 2010 (Berkeley, CA) and 2012 (Miami, FL), we are looking forward to hosting challenges and special or themed sessions.
Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics:

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken dialog systems
• Spoken document summarization
• Machine translation for speech
• Question answering from speech
• Speech data mining
• Spoken document retrieval
• Spoken language databases
• Multimodal processing
• Human/computer interaction
• Educational and healthcare applications
• Assistive technologies
• Natural Language Processing

Important Deadlines
Paper Submission Monday, July 21, 2014
Notification of Acceptance Friday, September 5, 2014
Demo Submission September 2014
Demo Acceptance October 2014
Early registration deadline October 17, 2014
Workshop December 7-10, 2014

Submission Procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.