Dear Professor/Scholar,

We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming book entitled “Applied Speech and Text Processing For Low Resource Languages” to be published by the River Publishers.

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Motivation and Scope of the Book

Out of over 7000 recognized languages worldwide, only a small proportion offer sufficient resources to build speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies adequately. Developing such solutions for low-resource languages is challenging in multiple aspects. The dependency on deep learning over volumes of resources is quite conventional. Hence, the research in this domain is propelled by different ideas to train and validate systems, such as data augmentation, transfer learning, and hybrid multi-modal architectures, to name a few. This book aims at collecting such ideas, advent, and solutions for building speech/NLP technologies in low-resource scenarios.

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Table of Contents

We invite submissions of high-quality, original chapters addressing both theoretical and practical aspects, including their ethical and social implications of NLP in healthcare. The Book aims to cover (but is not limited) the following topics:

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Speech Processing for Low Resource Languages -

Natural Language Processing for Low Resource -

Deep learning methods for low-resource languages -

End-to-end speech Recognition for Low-Resource Language -

Development of a Speech Corpus for Low Resource Language -

Multimodal architectures for social media analysis

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Speech synthesis for low-resource language -

Speech translation for low-resource language -

Indigenous Language revitalization/preservation -

Transfer learning applications -

Leveraging Large pre-trained language models

knowledge under few-shot and zero-shot in NLP tasks

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Efficiently aligning acoustic and textual embeddings -

Speech Recognition for Specific Dialects

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Important Dates and Submission Guidelines

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Full Chapter Abstract Submission: 10.01.2024 -

Abstract Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 25.01.2024 -

Full Chapter Submission: 15.03.2024 -

First Review Notification: 15.04.2024 -

Revised Version Notification: 15.05.2024 -

Final Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 30.05.2024 -

Camera Ready Chapter Submission: 10.06.2024

Authors should send their abstracts and chapters through easy-chair https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=appliedspeechnlpbook0only. The submission guidelines and other detailed information can be found on the book website https://sites.google.com/view/speech-nlp-boook-river/home. For any query mail to: speech_nlp_book_river@googlegroups.com https://groups.google.com/g/speech_nlp_book_river

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Editors

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Dr. Shantipriya Parida (Silo AI, Finland) https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/ -

Assoc. Prof. Satya Ranjan Dash (KIIT University, India) https://ksca.kiit.ac.in/profiles/satya-ranjan-dash/ -

Asst. Prof. Biswa Ranjan Acharya (Marwadi university, India) https://www.linkedin.com/in/acharyabiswa/?originalSubdomain=in -

Dr. Ravi Shankar Prasad (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishankar-prasad-b9907924/ -

Prof. Esaú Villatoro-Tello (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) https://www.linkedin.com/in/esa%C3%BA-villatoro-tello-bb185b1aa/

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