SLT 2014 - 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014)

The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014) will be held in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, on Dec 7-10, 2014. The main theme of the workshop will be "machine learning in spoken language technologies". The workshop goals include increasing both intra and inter community interaction, by means of keynote/guest speakers from the ML community, online panel discussions, miniSIGs, and highlight sessions.
Topics
Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics, including both traditional SLT areas as well as emerging ones:
Traditional topic coverage:
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
Speaker/language recognition
Multimodal processing
Human/computer interaction
Assistive technologies
Natural Language Processing
Educational and healthcare applications
Emerging areas:
Large scale spoken language understanding
Massive data resources for spoken language technology
Unsupervised methods in spoken language technologies
Capturing and representing world knowledge in spoken language technologies
Web search with spoken language technologies
Spoken language technologies in social networks
Multimedia applications
Intelligent environments
Important Dates
Paper Submission: July 21, 2014
Full paper submission deadline is on July 21st 2014 midnight (11:59pm) GMT, after which updates of the pdf file will be permitted until July 28th 2014 midnight GMT but the title, author, abstract and topics cannot be changed. There will be no extension of deadlines. The conference will be conducted in English.
Notification of Acceptance: September 5, 2014
Submission Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 web site.