CFP: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2010)

[Asli Celikyilmaz]

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. SLT 2010 is co-sponsored
by ACL and ISCA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the language
processing community to share and present recent advances in various
areas of spoken language technology.

*** New at SLT 2010 ***

- Free pre-workshop tutorials.

- Best paper awards (SLT best paper awards and AT&T sponsored best
  student paper award) and oral presentation session for awarded
  papers.

- The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be
  organized as a special session during SLT 2010.

*** Keynote Speakers ***
 Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley
 Chris Manning, Stanford U.
 James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin

*** Tutorial Speakers ***
 Philip Koehn, U. Edinburgh
 Mike Riley and Cyril Allauzen, Google

*** Important Dates ***
 Paper Submission: July 16, 2010
 Notification: September 1, 2010
 Workshop: December 12-15, 2010

*** For sponsorship opportunities, please visit ***
    http://www.slt2010.org/Sponsorship.asp

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
- Natural Language Processing

Organizing Chairs:
 Dilek Hakkani-Tur, 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