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Organizing Committee
Co-chairs:
Murat Akbacak, Microsoft
John Hansen, UT Dallas
Finance Chair:
Ozlem Kalinli, Sony
Advisory board:
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft
Yang Liu, UT Dallas
Technical Co-chairs:
Steve Young, Cambridge
Pascale Fung, HKUST
Dilek Hakkani Tur, Microsoft
Haizhou Li, I²R
Publicity Co-chairs:
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia
Agustin Gravano, UBA
Publications Chair:
Shri Narayanan, USC
Local Organizers:
Nikki Mirghafori, ICSI Berkeley
Yun Lei, SRI International
Demo Co-chairs:
Alex Rudnicky, CMU
Sachin Kajarekar, Apple
Panel Co-chairs:
Larry Heck, Microsoft
Mazin Gilbert, AT&T
Europe Liaisons:
Isabel Trancoso, INESC ID
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
Asia Liaisons:
Lin Shan Lee, NTU
Sadaoki Furui, TIT
NIPS Liaison:
Li Deng, Microsoft
Sponsorship Co-chairs:
Jerome Bellagarda, Apple
Xiao Li, Facebook
Ananth Sankar, Microsoft

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:
Traditional topic coverage:
Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language databases
Spoken language understanding
Speaker/language recognition
Spoken dialog systems
Multimodal processing
Spoken document summarization
Human/computer interaction
Machine translation for speech
Assistive technologies
Question answering from speech
Natural Language Processing
Speech data mining
Educational and healthcare applications
Spoken document retrieval
Emerging areas: Large scale spoken language understanding; massive
data resources for SLT; unsupervised methods in SLT; capturing and
representing world knowledge in SLT; web search with SLT; SLT in
social networks; multimedia applications; intelligent environments.

Venue, Information and Registration
SLT 2014 will take place in South Lake Tahoe, a town located on the
shore of Lake Tahoe, right on the CA-NV state line and easily accessible
by plane or car. The workshop venue will be Harvey's Lake Tahoe
Casino/Hotel, located within walking distance from the town center and
the Heavenly ski resort. Registration and information: www.slt2014.org

Important Dates
July 21, 2014
Paper Submission:
September 5, 2014
Notification of Acceptance:
September 2014
Demo Submission:
October 2014
Demo Acceptance:
TBD
Special Sessions / Special Interest Group Proposal submission:
October 17, 2014
Early registration deadline:
December 7-10, 2014
Workshop:

Submission Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers,
including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 web site: www.slt2014.org

Supported by
Association for
Computational Linguistics

International Speech
Communication Association
http://www.slt2014.org http://www.slt2014.org
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