22.4932, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Africa

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Subject: 22.4932, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Africa

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Date: 08-Dec-2011
From: Pascal Nocera [pascal.nocera at univ-avignon.fr]
Subject: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages


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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:26:16
From: Pascal Nocera [pascal.nocera at univ-avignon.fr]
Subject: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages

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Full Title: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages 
Short Title: SLTU'12 

Date: 07-May-2012 - 09-May-2012
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: Pascal Nocera
Meeting Email: sltu at mica.edu.com
Web Site: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Jan-2012 

Meeting Description:

The workshop will focus on spoken language processing for under-resourced languages and aims at gathering researchers working on:

ASR, synthesis and translation for under-resourced languages
Portability issues
Multilingual spoken language processing
Fast resource acquisition (speech, text, lexicons, parallel corpora)
Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages
Other related topics

SLTU'12 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for the presentation of research results related to under-resourced languages. For SLTU'12, the languages of Africa will receive particular attention, but papers on all under-resourced languages are invited.

Students are encouraged to participate in SLTU'12 - financial support for such participation is being sought, and will be announced on the workshop website. 

Call for Papers:

Format of Papers:

The submission should be in the PDF format. You can use the templates available on our website and then save the document in PDF.

Submission:

Go to the submission website:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sltu2012

You will need to create an account (if you do not already have one) in order to submit your paper.

Important Dates:

Paper submission: 13 January 2012, with modifications allowed until 20 January 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: 7 February 2012
Camera ready papers due: 28 February 2012
Author registration deadline: 28 February 2012





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