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{{Event
|Acronym=SLT 2018
|Title=IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology
|Series=SLT 2018
|Type=Conference
|Start date=2018/12/18
|End date=2018/12/21
|Submission deadline=2018/07/02
|Homepage=http://www.slt2018.org/
|Twitter account=@IEEEsps
|City=Athens
|Country=Greece
|Has host organization=IEEE Signal Processing Society
|has general chair=Yannis Stylianou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Srinivas Bangalore
|has demo chair=Theodore Giannakopoulos, Helen Meng
}}
The special theme for SLT 2018 will be “Spoken Language Technology in the Era of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”.

==Important Dates==
* Paper submission deadline:   July 2, 2018 
* Notification of paper acceptance:  Sept 3, 2018
* Special Session/Tutorial proposal deadline:  May 7, 2018
* Author registration & revised paper upload:  Sept 17, 2018 
* Demo submission deadline:  Sept 24, 2018 
* Early-registration deadline:  Nov 5, 2018 

You can browse all conference information on the website: www.slt2018.org. Follow updates on Twitter #SLT2018.

==TOPICS==
All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. As part of our special theme, we particularly welcome the submission of papers that address challenges and limitations in current deep learning approaches and opportunities for overcoming them (including but not limited to hybrid approaches using deep learning and traditional knowledge-based methods).

'''SLT2018 Topics''':   
* Speech recognition and synthesis
* Spoken language understanding and generation
* Spoken document retrieval
* Question answering from speech
* Natural language processing
* Human/computer interaction
* Spoken dialog systems
* Speech data mining
* Spoken document summarization
* Spoken language corpora
* Speaker/language recognition
* Multimodal processing
* Evaluation methodologies
* Applications of speech and language processing, including:
* Educational
* Healthcare
* Assistive technology Gaming

==Committees==

'''General Chair:'''
Yannis Stylianou, Apple and University of Crete

'''Co-Chairs:'''
* Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR Demokritos
* Srinivas Bangalore, Interactions LLC

'''Technical Chairs:''':
* Alexandros Papangelis, Uber
* Svetlana Stoyanchev, Ineraction LLC
* Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California
* Kishore Prahallad, Apple
* Spyros Matsoukas, Amazon
* Theodore Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos
* Milica Gasic, University of Cambridge
* Jerome Bellegarda, Apple
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon
* Richard Rose, Google
* Abdelrahman Mohamed, Amazon

'''Regional Publicity Chairs:'''
* Reinhold Häb-Umbach, Paderborn University
* Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT

'''Finance Chair:''' 
* Masami Akamine, Toshiba

'''Sponsorship Chairs:'''
* Sungjin Lee, Microsoft
* Richard Sproat, Google
* Andrew Rosenberg, IDM
 
'''Publication Chairs:'''
* Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Microsoft
* Gerasimos Potamianos, University of Thessaly

'''Special Session and Tutorial Chairs:'''
* John Hansen, The University of Texas at Dallas
* Alexandros Potamianos, National Technical University of Athens

'''Demo Chairs:'''
* Theodore Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos
* Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

'''Advisory Board:'''
* Frank Soong, Microsoft
* Najim Dehak, Johns Hopkins University
* Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
Acronym	SLT 2018 +
Demo deadline	September 24, 2018 +
End date	December 21, 2018 +
Event in series	SLT +
Event type	Conference +
Has coordinates	37° 59' 2", 23° 43' 42"Latitude: 37.983941666667 Longitude: 23.728305555556 +
Has demo chair	Theodore Giannakopoulos + and Helen Meng +
Has general chair	Yannis Stylianou +, Vangelis Karkaletsis + and Srinivas Bangalore +
Has location city	Athens +
Has location country	Category:Greece +
Has twitter	@IEEEsps +
Homepage	http://www.slt2018.org/ +
IsA	Event +
Paper deadline	July 2, 2018 +
Start date	December 18, 2018 +
Submission deadline	July 2, 2018 +
Title	IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology +