SLT 2018

SLT 2018
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology
Event in series	SLT 2018
Dates	2018/12/18 (iCal) - 2018/12/21
Homepage:	http://www.slt2018.org/
Twitter account:	@IEEEsps
Location
Location:	Athens, Greece
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Important dates
Papers:	2018/07/02
Demos:	2018/09/24
Submissions:	2018/07/02
Committees
General chairs:	Yannis Stylianou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Srinivas Bangalore
Demo chairs:	Theodore Giannakopoulos, Helen Meng
Table of Contents
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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