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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Please help post the call for papers to all
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information
Processing <BR>Special Issue on<BR>Recent Advances in Asian Language Spoken
Document Retrieval<BR>(<A
href="http://chinese.csie.ncku.edu.tw/CallForPaper/">http://chinese.csie.ncku.edu.tw/CallForPaper/</A>)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">With the rapid expansion of audio media
sources such as radio, TV, lectures, and telephony recordings, <BR>there is an
increasing demand for automatic indexing and retrieval of spoken
documents. <BR>Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) is essentially the task of
retrieving excerpts from a large collection <BR>of spoken documents based on a
user¡¦s request. Over the past several years, <BR>SDR has emerged as an
interdisciplinary field combining automatic speech recognition, <BR>natural
language processing, and information retrieval. SDR has benefited from advances
in speech <BR>and language processing as well as from the availability of large
spoken databases. <BR>With its focus on fundamental research in natural spoken
language processing, <BR>SDR is key to applications such as voice search, voice
surveillance, voice data mining and call center automation.<BR>We invite papers
on recent advances in Asian language SDR research. <BR>Submissions must not have
been previously published, with the exception that substantial extensions of
conference papers <BR>will be considered. Of particular interest are studies
that directly address problems in Asian spoken languages, <BR>but new and
general methods in SDR tested on Asian languages are also welcome. Topics of
interest include: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">¡ESpeech recognition and adaptation
algorithms<BR>¡ENatural language processing for SDR<BR>¡ETopic detection and
tracking, routing <BR>¡EClustering and classification<BR>¡EIndexing and retrieval
<BR>¡ESummarization and information extraction <BR>¡EUnderstanding, organization
and visualization <BR>¡ECross-language and multilingual SDR<BR>¡EQuery-by-example
SDR<BR>¡ESpoken dialogue systems for accessing spoken archives <BR>¡ESpoken
document corpora <BR>¡EPerformance, compression, scalability, architectures,
efficiency <BR>¡EVoice data mining and machine learning for SDR<BR>¡ESDR in
creative applications</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: <BR>Papers should be
formatted following the style guidelines for the ACM Transactions on Asian
Language Information Processing <BR>(<A
href="http://www.acm.org/pubs/talip/authors.html#STYLE_GUIDELINES">http://www.acm.org/pubs/talip/authors.html#STYLE_GUIDELINES</A>).
<BR>Please submit papers in PDF format using the Web-based Submission System
Manuscript Central <BR>(<A
href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip</A>).
<BR>In order to identify the submission is for the special issue, <BR>please
indicate "This paper is submitted to the Special Issue on Asian Language SDR" on
the Cover Page of the paper.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">SCHEDULE: (EXTENDED)<BR>Submission deadline: 1
February 2008<BR>Completion of first round of reviews: 15 May 2008<BR>Revisions
Due: 15 June 2008<BR>Notification of final acceptance: 15 September
2008<BR>Final manuscript due: 15 October 2008<BR>Publication date: March
2009</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">GUEST EDITORS: <BR>Prof. Chung-Hsien Wu,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, <A
href="mailto:chwu@csie.ncku.edu.tw">chwu@csie.ncku.edu.tw</A><BR>Dr. Haizhou Li,
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, <A
href="mailto:hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg">hli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>