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Dear all,

The 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18) will be held in Gurugram, India on 29-31 August 2018

The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam).

There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018.

Contact: kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com mailto:kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com Website: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018 http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references.

Areas/Topics q Language resource development, acquisition and representation q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources q Linguistic and cognitive studies q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units q Code switched lexical modelling q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing q Machine translation and dialogue systems q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages.

Important Dates q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018 q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018 q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018 q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018 q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018

Tutorials on NMT, ASR and TTS, as well as a new TTS challenge will be announced soon….

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Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier@imag.fr mailto:laurent.besacier@imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII

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!! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Nouveau tel: 0457421454

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------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier@imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------