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    <font face="Calibri">Dear Francis,<br>
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      Could you please send the message below to the Edling Digest
      mailing list?<br>
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      Kind regards, Helmer<br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/contact/">http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/contact/</a><br>
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      Dear colleagues,<br>
      <br>
      Recently, we organized the first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task'
      [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask/</a>].<br>
      Results were presented at a special session of the SLaTE-2017
      workshop [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.slate2017.org/">http://www.slate2017.org/</a>].<br>
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      The first 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' was successful, people
      expressed interest in a follow-up, and that is why we are now
      organizing a 2nd edition of the 'Spoken CALL Shared Task'
      [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tiny.cc/2nd-spoken-CALL-task">http://tiny.cc/2nd-spoken-CALL-task</a> ~
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/</a>]. The
      second version of the task will offer improved resources. In
      particular, it will make available the highest-performing speech
      recognizer from the first version of the task, and about twice as
      much training data.<br>
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      The preliminary schedule of the 2nd 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' is
      as follows:<br>
      • 27 Oct 2017, Training data and resources released<br>
      • 31 Jan 2018, Release test data<br>
      • 7 Feb 2018, Deadline for submission of entries<br>
      • 23 Mar 2018, Interspeech submission deadline<br>
      • 2-6 Sep 2018, Presentations at a special session of
      Interspeech-2018<br>
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      If you are interested (even if you are not sure that you will [be
      able to] participate), Subscribe to the Newsletter at
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/">https://regulus.unige.ch/spokencallsharedtask_2ndedition/</a>,<br>
      and/or send an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Johanna.Gerlach@unige.ch">Johanna.Gerlach@unige.ch</a>. There are no
      obligations at all, this is just to have an initial idea about who
      is interested.<br>
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      Feel free to forward this announcement. If you have suggestions
      about where we can send this announcement, please let us know.<br>
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      Regards,<br>
      The 'Spoken CALL Shared Task' team<br>
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      See also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/2nd-spoken-call-shared-task/">http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/2nd-spoken-call-shared-task/</a><br>
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