Call for Papers

The Second IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop will be held from December 15 to December 18, 2008 in Goa, India. The goal of this workshop is to bring both the speech processing and natural language processing communities together to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology, with the expectation that such a confluence of the researchers from both communities will foster new ideas, collaborations and new research directions in this area. The SLT 2008 workshop is endorsed by both ISCA and ACL organizations and eligible participants can apply for ISCA grants (http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html).

Spoken language technology is a vibrant research area, with the potential for significant impact on government and industrial applications especially with the diversity and challenges offered by the multilingual business climates of today's world.

The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of spoken language technology:

Spoken language understanding Spoken document summarization Machine translation for speech Spoken dialog systems Spoken language generation Spoken document retrieval Human computer Interactions (HCI)

Speech data mining Information extraction from speech Question answering from speech Multimodal processing Spoken language based assistive technologies Spoken language systems and applications Spoken language databases and standards

In addition, this year's workshop will feature three special sessions:

• Challenges in Asian spoken language processing with special emphasis on Indian languages
• Mining human-human conversations: A resource for building efficient human-machine dialogs
• Spoken Language on the go: Challenges and Opportunities for spoken language processing on mobile devices

Submissions for the Technical Program

The workshop program will consist of tutorials, oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Attendance will be limited with priority for those who will present technical papers; registration is required of at least one author for each paper. Submissions are encouraged on any of the topics listed above. The style guide, templates, and submission form will follow the IEEE ICASSP style. Three members of the Scientific Committee will review each paper. The workshop proceedings will be published on a CD-ROM.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline	August 15, 2008
Hotel Reservation and Workshop registration opens	August 15, 2008
Paper Acceptance / Rejection	September 22, 2008
Travel Grant Application deadline	September 25, 2008
Hotel Reservation and Early Registration closes	October 5, 2008
Camera-Ready Paper upload deadline	October 15, 2008
Workshop	December 15-18, 2008

Contact us at info@slt2008.org if you have any questions.

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