34.3027, Calls: Spoken Language Processing and Conversational Systems Special Track at FLAIRS-37 Conference

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Subject: 34.3027, Calls: Spoken Language Processing and Conversational Systems Special Track at FLAIRS-37 Conference

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Date: 14-Oct-2023
From: M. Zakaria Kurdi [kurdi_m at lynchburg.edu]
Subject: Spoken Language Processing and Conversational Systems Special Track at FLAIRS-37 Conference


Full Title: Spoken Language Processing and Conversational Systems
Special Track at FLAIRS-37 Conference
Short Title: SLP-FLAIRS

Date: 18-May-2024 - 21-May-2024
Location: Miramar Beach, Florida, USA, USA
Contact Person: M. Zakaria Kurdi
Meeting Email: kurdi_m at lynchburg.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/lynchburg.edu/flairs37-spoken-langu
age-track/home?pli=1

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 22-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

This is a special track about theoretical and applied work on spoken
language

Call For Papers:

Spoken Language Processing and Conversational Systems
Special Track at FLAIRS-37 Conference
Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa
Miramar Beach, Florida, USA
May 18-21, 2024
https://sites.google.com/lynchburg.edu/flairs37-spoken-language-track/
home?pli=1

Scope of the Track

Spoken language is the favored media of communication between human
beings whether face-to-face or through various communication tools
such as the phone, voice chat applications or even the general media
like the radio or TV. Hence, adding conversational interfaces to
various types of computer software and hardware devices will make them
more natural. To achieve this goal, there are still multiple
challenges at all the levels from speech recognition and synthesis,
spoken language understanding and generation as well as dialog
management. To meet these challenges, interdisciplinary work at the
cross roads between linguistics, AI, Data Science, and Cognitive
Science is carried out by researchers around the world.
The goal of this track is to be a forum for scholars and scientists to
present their empirical research, and well-grounded theory related to
Spoken Language Processing as well as to Dialog and Conversational
Systems.

List of Topics

The list of topics includes (but is not limited to):
▪ Automatic speech recognition and synthesis
▪ Spoken Language Understanding and Generation
▪ Spoken Documents Retrieval
▪ Spoken Documents Summarization
▪ Spoken language translation.
▪ Spoken question answering systems.
▪ Conversational systems and chatbots
▪ Dialog Management
▪ Speech Data Mining applied to education, mental disease detection,
etc.
▪ Computational models of Spoken Language (phonetics, phonology,
syntax, discourse, disfluencies, etc.).
▪ Paralinguistics in Speech and Language.
▪ Speaker and Language Identification
▪ Multimodal Information Processing
▪ Spoken language interfaces to educational systems.
▪ Spoken language interfaces to games.
▪ Spoken language interfaces to Health and medical systems.
▪ Spoken language interfaces in smart homes.
▪ Spoken language interfaces to assistive technology (car driving,
robot and drone navigation, etc.)
▪ Emotion in speech.
▪ Deep Learning Architectures for Spoken Language Processing
▪ Speech coding and enhancement.
▪ Evaluation methodologies of the above systems.
▪ Speech data collection and annotation.

Important Dates

January 22, 2024 - Paper abstract submission (Abstract submission is
mandatory to submit full paper!)
January 29, 2024 - Paper submission
March 11, 2024 - Paper acceptance notification

Track Chair

M. Zakaria KURDI, University of Lynchburg, USA

Program Committee

Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA
Sophie Rosset, Interdisciplinary Computer Sciences Laboratory (LISN),
Paris, France
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Martin Karafiat, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Mengjie Qian, University of Cambridge, UK
Richard Dufour, Nantes University, France
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
Jens Elkund, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Stanislaw Kacprzak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Said Desouki, AIU, Syria
Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Fazel Keshtkar, St John's University, USA
Others are being contacted

Types of submissions

There are three kinds of submissions:
▪ Full paper  – a paper describing mature novel research, up to 6
pages excluding references that will be published in the proceedings,
and will be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation.
▪ Short paper – a paper that shows some novelty and general interest
but is more preliminary or in the early stages of development, up to 4
pages excluding references that get published in the proceedings, and
will be presented by the author in a 10 minute oral presentation.
▪ Poster paper, up to 2 pages excluding references that



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