CFP: "Speech and language technology for less-resourced languages"

[Briony Williams]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

     "Speech and language technology for less-resourced languages"

    Two-hour Special Session at INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium

                    www.interspeech2007.org

  Special Session website: ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/history/interspeech2007/ 


Speech and language technology researchers who work on less-resourced 
languages often have very limited access to funding, equipment and software. 
This makes it all the more important for them to come together to share best 
practice, in order to avoid a duplication of effort. This special session 
will therefore be devoted to speech and language technology for 
less-resourced languages.

In view of the limited resources available to the targeted researchers, there 
will be a particular emphasis on "free" software, which may be either 
open-source or closed-source. However, submissions are also invited from 
those using commercial software.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

     * Examples of systems built using free or purpose-built software 
(possibly with demonstrations).
     * Presentations of bugs in free software, and strategies for dealing 
with them.
     * Presentations of additions and enhancements made to the software by a 
research group.
     * Presentations of linguistic challenges for a particular less-resourced 
language.
     * Descriptions of desired features for possible future implementation.

Submission
----------

Researchers who are interested in contributing to this special session are 
invited to submit either a paper or a demo or both, as follows.

    1. Papers can be submitted by proceeding according to the regular 
submission procedure of Interspeech 2007 and selecting "Speech and language 
technology for less-resourced languages" as the topic of your first choice. 
The paper submission deadline is March 23, 2007.

    2. We offer a light submission procedure for demos. (Please note: unlike 
regular papers, texts submitted with a demo will NOT be published in the 
proceedings, but will be made available for download from the SALTMIL website 
at http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/ ). In this case, please submit a short 
description of the system demonstrated, the demo, required materials for the 
demo, and references, to the first of the session organisers (see below) and 
to special_sessions at interspeech2007.org before April 27, 2007. Demo 
submission texts should be formatted in accordance with the Interspeech 2007 
author kit, and should be between 1 and 4 pages in length.

Session organisers
------------------

Dr Briony Williams
Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Email: b.williams at bangor.ac.uk

Dr Mikel Forcada
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informrtics, Universitat d'Alacant, 
E-03071 Alacant, Spain
Email: mlf at dlsi.ua.es

Dr Kepa Sarasola
Dept of Computer Languages, Univ of the Basque Country, PK 649 20080 
Donostia, Basque Country, Spain
Email: ksarasola at si.ehu.es

Important dates
---------------

Four-page paper deadline:
     March 23, 2007
Demo submission deadline:
     April 27, 2007
Notification of acceptance:
     May 25, 2007
Early registration deadline:
     June 22, 2007
Main Interspeech conference:
     August 28-31, 2007


-- 
Briony Williams

Arweinydd Tîm Technoleg Lleferydd / Speech Technology Team Leader
Uned Technolegau Iaith            / Language Technologies Unit
Canolfan Bedwyr                   / Canolfan Bedwyr
Prifysgol Cymru                   / University of Wales
Bangor                            / Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2EN, UK              / Gwynedd LL57 2EN, UK

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