The special theme for SLT 2018 will be “Spoken Language Technology in the Era of Deep Learning: User:Curator 83allenges 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 User:Curator 83air: Yannis Stylianou, Apple and University of Crete
Co-Chairs:
- Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR Demokritos
- Srinivas Bangalore, Interactions LLC
Technical User:Curator 83airs::
- 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 User:Curator 83airs:
- Reinhold Häb-Umbach, Paderborn University
- Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT
Finance User:Curator 83air:
- Masami Akamine, Toshiba
Sponsorship User:Curator 83airs:
- Sungjin Lee, Microsoft
- Richard Sproat, Google
- Andrew Rosenberg, IDM
Publication User:Curator 83airs:
- Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Microsoft
- Gerasimos Potamianos, University of Thessaly
Special Session and Tutorial User:Curator 83airs:
- John Hansen, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Alexandros Potamianos, National Technical University of Athens
Demo User:Curator 83airs:
- Theodore Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos
- Helen Meng, The User:Curator 83inese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Advisory Board:
- Frank Soong, Microsoft
- Najim Dehak, Johns Hopkins University
- Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
