Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Zhijian Ou
Tsinghua University
Lei Xie
NW Polytech University
Technical Program Chairs
Jinyu Li
Microsoft
Xiaodong Cui
IBM
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Amazon
Chiori Hori
MERL
Masami Akamine
Tohoku University
Kong-Aik Lee
NEC
The SLT Workshop is a biennial flagship event of IEEE Speech and
Language Processing Technical Committee. The 8th IEEE Workshop on
Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held on January 19-22, 2021 in
Shenzhen, China. The theme for this year will be “Spoken language
technologies: deep learning and beyond”. The workshop will feature the
most recent and exciting advances in speech and language processing
through invited talks/keynotes, as well as special and regular single-track
sessions.
Finance Chairs
Xunying Liu
CUHK
Zheng-Hua Tan
Aalborg University
Sponsorship Chair
Jen-Tzung Chien
NCTU
Topics
The special theme for this year will be "Spoken language technologies:
deep learning and beyond".
All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. Topics of
interest include, but not limited to, the following,
Publication Chair
Hsin-Min Wang
Academia Sinica
Panel and Invited Speaker Chair
Brian Mak
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Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language understanding
Spoken document retrieval
Question answering from speech
Assistive technologies
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Spoken dialog systems
Speech data mining
HKUST
Asli Celikyilmaz
Microsoft
Emotion recognition from speech
Spoken document summarization
Spoken language corpora
Speaker/language recognition
Evaluation methodologies
Special Session and Demo Chairs
Yang Liu
Natural language processing
Human/computer interaction
Amazon
Thomas Fang Zheng
Tsinghua University
Regional Publicity Chairs
Ozlem Kalinli
Apple
Venue
Shenzhen is a tourist attractive modern city centered in Guangdong-
Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The emblematic city of prosperous
provides for best living quality, world-class transport infrastructure and
comfortable climate. You can browse all conference information on the
Jianhua Tao
China Academy of Sciences
Zhehuai Chen
Google
Important Dates (AoE)
Local Arrangements Chairs
Zhiyong Wu
Challenge session submission:
Challenge session notification:
Special session proposal due:
Special session notification:
Paper submission due:
Paper notification:
Demo submission due:
Author and early registration due:
Demo selection notification:
Workshop Date:
May 22, 2020
May 29, 2020
June 12, 2020
July 13, 2020
August 14, 2020
October 26, 2020
November 20, 2020
November 23, 2020
December 13, 2020
January 19-22, 2021
Tsinghua-Shenzhen
Yuexian Zou
PKU-Shenzhen
Advisory Board
Helen Meng
CUHK
Haizhou Li
NUS
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
UIUC
Sadaoki Furui
TTIC
Submission Details
Authors are invited to prepare a full-length, 4-6 page papers, including
figures, plus 1-2 additional pages for references only, to the SLT 2021