Call For Special Sessions

The IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held on January 19-22, 2021 in Shenzhen, China. Submissions of Special Sessions and Challenges are encouraged for SLT 2021. All Special Sessions and Challenges related to spoken language technology are welcome (see topics below). We particularly welcome submissions that are related to the theme of SLT 2021, “Spoken language technologies: deep learning and beyond”.

Please note: There are no additional fees for the Special Sessions and Challenges, however all the presenters will have to register to SLT 2021.

SLT Topics

Speech recognition and synthesis

Spoken language understanding

Spoken document retrieval

Question answering from speech

Assistive technologies

Natural language processing

Multimodal processing

Human/computer interaction

Spoken dialog systems

Speech data mining

Emotion recognition from speech

Spoken document summarization

Spoken language corpora

Speaker/language recognition

Evaluation methodologies

Applications including but not limited to educational or healthcare domains

Important Dates (AoE)

May 22, 2020	Challenge session submission
May 29, 2020	Challenge session notification
June 12, 2020	Special session proposal due
July 13, 2020	Special session notification
Jan 19-22, 2021	SLT Workshop

Each proposal should include the following information:

Title of the proposed special session or challenge

Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer)

A summary describing the importance of the session's topic and goals, and the planned format of the session (panel, oral, posters, etc.)

A tentative list of researchers who could contribute papers to the session, or participate in the challenge

For challenges, planned data and dates (e.g., data available, submission deadline, results announcement)

Additional information about the resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session

The submitted proposal will be reviewed for relevance and significance, by a committee assembled by Special Session chairs.

Papers for approved Special Sessions and Challenges have to be submitted and reviewed, according to the same schedule and procedure as regular papers. Special Session and Challenge organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions. The accepted papers will be incorporated into the conference proceedings.

Special Session and Challenge organizers are invited to submit proposals to SLT Special Session chairs Yang Liu (Amazon, Alexa AI, USA) and Thomas Zheng (Tsinghua University, China) via email to slt2021specialsession@gmail.com. Please don't hesitate to contact Special Session chairs for any additional questions.