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Dear Friends,
You have probably seen and read about the unfortunate events and loss of lives at the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai.
Given that SLT is around the corner, it is but natural to be concerned about the safety of your travel and your security during your visit to India.
As conference organizers, we are closely monitoring the news broadcasts and the turn of the events and we wanted to share our thoughts with you.
First of all please note that this is not any incident of wide-spread violence but a despicable and cowardly act of terrorism targeting to a part of Mumbai. As per the latest news, the situation is under control and stable now.
As for air travel thru Mumbai, there have been no news to indicate disruption of any service. As you would expect, the country is on high alert and more security measures are being taken to ensure more safety than ever.
Given the information we have at this time, we plan to go ahead with the SLT conference as planned. Like millions of other Indians, who are marching ahead with their daily events, despite a heavy heart for the innocent victims of this despicable act, we also want to embark on life as usual, as otherwise, we will only help these terrorists to achieve their goal of disrupting normalcy. We need your support and solidarity as well.
However, we will monitor the daily events with strict focus of the security and safety of travel. We will keep you updated in case of any changes.
We also will soon email to all of you who are coming to SLT-08 requesting your travel details so that we can advise and assist you and track your travel to India and to Goa. We will also pick you up from the Goa airport, when you arrive and also drop you at the Goa airport during your return.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We will do our best to help.
Amitav
Srinivas
It is our pleasure to invite you to Goa, India, for the Second IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology workshop. The goal of the SLT workshop is to bring the speech and language communities together to discuss and present advances and challenges in the area of spoken language processing.
This time we are hosting it in India, a land of ancient civilization which is witnessing a tremendous infusion of new information technologies fomenting knowledge generation & dissemination. India is also a land of rich culture and diversity. Over 28 languages and thousands of dialects are spoken here which makes India an ideal destination for speech and language experts and researchers of the world. Come to SLT08 to witness and interact with local researchers over the spoken language problems the various multilingual societies of India and rest of the world facing today including language understanding, dialog, mining, translation, multimodal, summarization, user interface, topic detection, and generation.
Goa, also called the "pearl of the orient", is a tourist paradise, nested between the blue Arabian Sea, its white sand beaches seas, the swaying palms and the lush forested hills. Besides the natural beauty, the fabulous beaches and sunshine, travelers to Goa love the laid-back, peaceful, warm and friendly nature of the Goan people. We hope that Goa will be a perfect destination for SLT-08 and we look forward to see you in the workshop!
| Amitav Das, | General Chair |
| Srinivas Bangalore, | Co-Chair |