The Spring 2012 edition of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee’s Newsletter is now online.

May 2012 Welcome to the Spring 2012 edition of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee's Newsletter. In this issue we are pleased to provide another installment of brief articles representing a diversity of views and backgrounds. This issue includes 7 articles from 7 guest contributors, and our own staff reporters and editors. Starting with this issue, we revive the "Announcements" section, where we plan to include job changes and book announcements. Please email the editors with your non-commercial announcements. We believe the newsletter is an ideal forum for updates, reports, announcements and editorials which don't fit well with traditional journals. We welcome your contributions, as well as calls for papers, job announcements, comments and suggestions. You can submit job postings here, and reach us at speechnewseds [at] listserv (dot) ieee [dot] org. Finally, to subscribe the Newsletter, send an email with the command "subscribe speechnewsdist" in the message body to listserv [at] listserv (dot) ieee [dot] org. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Editor-in-chief William Campbell, Editor Patrick Nguyen, Editor Martin Russell, Editor