[Corpora-List] CFP for COLING workshop

[Manny Rayner]

To whom it may concern,

Would you be able to post the following CFP on your mailing list? Please 
let us know if we need to give you any more information.

Thank you,

Manny Rayner + Pierrette Bouillon
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications

COLING conference workshop

Manchester, England
Saturday, August 23, 2008

*** Deadline: 5 May ***

http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/

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Medical applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains
for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech
translation, held at HLT 2006, several advanced prototype systems were
demonstrated, and a measure of consensus emerged on at least some
points:

*  The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other
   application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature.
   For this reason, we are broadening the scope of the second workshop
   to include other safety-critical tasks, such as emergency response.

*  The technology is mature enough that useful systems can
   realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future.

*  Systems targeted on these kinds of applications are often more useful
   if they can be made available on mobile or wearable hardware
   platforms.

*  The basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the
   client users (patients in the case of medical applications) to play
   an active role.

Despite this, there is so far little agreement on many central
questions, including choices of architectures, component technologies,
and evaluation methodologies. In this second workshop, we would again
like to create a forum where people interested in these types of
systems can meet, exchange ideas and demo live systems. We hope that
the concrete result of the meeting will be the definition of at least
one shared task for the emerging medical/safety-critical speech
translation community, which will include shared data sets and an
agreed-on evaluation methodology appropriate to the special
characteristics of the domain. 

SUBMISSION:

Submissions may be of the following kinds:

*  Long papers (up to 8 pages) describing substantial work on
   speech translation for medical and other safety-critical
   applications. We particularly encourage papers describing 
   user-centered system evaluations.

*  System demonstrations, accompanied by short papers (up to 4 pages).
   Submission of a long paper does NOT preclude submission of an
   accompanying demo paper.

*  Short papers (up to 4 pages) describing component systems, including
   ASR, MT and TTS, which are particularly relevant to medical and
   safety critical speech translation.

*  Position statements (up to 4 pages) suggesting definitions of a
   shared task.

All submissions should use the style files available on the main
COLING conference web site. Author information should be included in
the papers, since reviewing will NOT be blind. The main workshop 
page will soon include a link for submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop paper submission deadline		5 May
Notification of acceptance of workshop papers	6 June
Camera-ready copy of papers due			1 July

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier		U Grenoble, France
Pierrette Bouillon (co-chair)	U Geneva, Switzerland
Mike Dillinger			SpokenTranslation, US
Farzad Ehsani (co-chair)	Fluential, US
Glenn Flores			U Texas, US
Robert Frederking (co-chair)	CMU, US
Hitoshi Isahara			NICT, Japan
Shri Narayanan			USC, US
Aarne Ranta			U Gothenburg, Sweden
Manny Rayner (co-chair)		U Geneva, Switzerland
Tanja Schultz			U Karlsruhe, Germany
Harold Somers			U Manchester, UK
Bowen Zhou			IBM, US

QUERIES:

Please address queries to Manny Rayner (Emmanuel.Rayner at issco.unige.ch)
or Pierrette Bouillon (Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch)
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