Speech and Language Conferences

Upcoming Conferences
Upcoming Workshops
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Recent Past Conferences and Workshops

Upcoming Conferences

ICASSP 2010 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Dallas, Texas, USA
15-19 March, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline: 14 September, 2009

NAACL HLT 2010: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Los Angeles, California, USA
2-4 June, 2010
Paper submission deadline: 1 December, 2009

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Uppsala, Sweden
July 11-16, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February, 2010

Upcoming Workshops

ASRU 2009 - Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Merano, Italy
13-17 December, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2009

NAACL-HLT 2010 - The 5th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Los Angeles, California
5/6 June, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: 1 March, 2009

NAACL-HLT 2010 - First Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
Los Angeles, California
5/6 June, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: 1 March, 2009

Dialogue & Discourse: Special Issue on Incremental Processing in Dialogue
From the requesters: "The topic of the special issue is "incremental processing in dialogue", by which we mean, very broadly, the successive processing of input (or generation of output) in increments smaller than whole utterances."
Topics of interest

Incrementality and Dialogue Structure: consideration of incrementality changes one's assessment of dialogue structure. Papers in this section may deal with sub-turns activities of contributors to dialogue such as forms of acknowledgement, repair and other means of "help by other" and which type of structure these contributions will generate.
The Time-Course of Interpretation Processes: which type of information gets priority in the interpretation process, for example syntax or prosody, and can hence serve as a sort of integration instance.
Accounts of Incremental Information from Different Strata of Dialogue: Increments may carry information on, say, prosody, rhetorical relations, cont inuations with respect to semantics, anaphora and valence information which all have to be filed into different places of some temporal dialogue structure and w hich will generate different structural expectations.
Computation Models of Incremental Processing: Coordination of planni ng, production, and parsing processes with respect to sub-propositional units.
Theoretical Models of Incrementality: Focus on preconditions for or layers of dialogue theory and their interfaces.
Repercussions of the Incrementality Concept on Traditional Topics of Dialogue Theory: Proposal concerning dialogue structure one sees that these basically rest on a propositional or on a speech act foundation. The foundation then provides the preconditions for various sorts of explanations. If one works with increments, the solution concepts for time-honoured problems of dialogue description like systematic up-dating, rhetorical relations, grounding or the resolution of anaphora will have to change.

Approximate submission length: 30 pages
Paper submission deadline: 31 December, 2009

Recent Past Conferences and Workshops

NAACL HLT 2009 Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3)
5 June 2009
Boulder, Colorado
Submission Deadline: 6 March 2009

SLaTE 2009 - 2nd ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
3-5 September 2009
Wroxall Abbey Estate, Warwickshire, England
4-page submission deadline: 8 May 2009

Interspeech 2009
6-10 September 2009
Brighton, The United Kingdom
Submission Deadline: 17 April 2009

IWSLT 2009 - International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
1-2 December 2009
Tokyo, Japan
Run Submission Deadline - 28 August 2009
Paper Submission Deadline - 31 July 2009