CFP: 2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016)

The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held from December 13–16, 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The theme for this year will be “machine learning from signal to concepts”. The workshop is expected to provide researchers around the world the opportunity to interact and present their newest and most advanced research in the fields of speech and language processing. The program for SLT 2016 will be include oral and posters sessions, keynotes, plus invited speakers in the field of spoken language as well as tutorials and multiple special sessions.

Topics

Submission of papers is desired on a large variety of areas of spoken language technology, with emphasis on the following topics on previous workshops:

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken document retrieval
• Question answering from speech
• Assistive technologies
• Natural language processing
• Educational and healthcare applications
• Human/computer interaction
• Spoken dialog systems
• Speech data mining
• Spoken document summarization
• Spoken language databases
• Speaker/language recognition
• Multimodal processing

Venue

IEEE SLT 2016 will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the InterContinental Hotel in the tourist area of Isla Verde. These areas feature beautiful beaches and a vibrant night life besides a large number of dining options. Additional, the Old San Juan area is just a few miles away.