— SUBMISSION FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS IS NOW CLOSED —

The IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held from 18 – 21 December 2018 in Athens, Greece, Europe. Encompassing the current deep learning trends and traditional knowledge-based methods, SLT’s 2018 main theme will be around “Spoken Language Technology in the Era of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”.

SLT 2018 is accepting proposals for Special Sessions.

All special sessions related to spoken language technology are welcome (see topics below). As part of our special theme, we particularly welcome the submission of special sessions 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).

We invite submissions from the wider area of spoken language technology, with emphasis on the following topics:

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken document retrieval
• Question answering from speech
• Assistive technologies
• Natural language processing
• Evaluation methodologies
• Multimodal processing
• Human/computer interaction
• Spoken dialog systems
• Speech data mining
• Emotion recognition from speech
• Spoken document summarization
• Spoken language corpora
• Speaker/language recognition
• Evaluation methodologies
  • Educational
  • Healthcare
  • Assistive technology
  • Gaming

The deadline for Tutorial submissions is Friday 8 June 2018 at 23h59 EST.

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