Call for participation: Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP)

[Karen Livescu]

*** Call for Participation:

*** Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP)
*** http://ttic.edu/livescu/MLSLP2016/

*** September 13, 2016 

*** Google San Francisco, CA, USA

MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the ISCA SIG on machine learning in speech and language processing. Prior workshops were held in 2011 and 2012. While research in speech and language processing has always involved machine learning (ML), current research is benefiting from even closer interaction between these fields. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from ML and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. The workshop will not be yet another venue for applications of deep learning to speech and language processing, as this is already well covered by major conferences. It will, however, include new directions for deep learning in speech/language, as well as other emerging ideas. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences.

*** Invited Speakers

Keynote speakers:  Fei Sha, Ian Goodfellow, Fei Sha, Kai Yu, Jan Chorowski

Spotlight invited speakers:  Ryan Lowe, William Chan, Herman Kamper, Chelsea Finn

*** Registration

Early registration deadline is August 8.  Registration will be available on site, but space is not guaranteed after the early registration deadline.

*** Organizing Committee

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC (finance chair)

Navdeep Jaitly, Google (local arrangements chair)

Joseph Keshet, Bar-Ilan University

Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago

Tara Sainath, Google

*** Contact

mlsl...@ttic.edu

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Karen Livescu

Assistant Professor

TTI-Chicago

http://ttic.edu/livescu