List of Topics

The list of topics includes (but is not limited to):

▪ Automatic speech recognition and synthesis

▪ Spoken Language Understanding and Generation

▪ Spoken Documents Retrieval

▪ Spoken Documents Summarization

▪ Spoken language translation.

▪ Spoken question answering systems.

▪ Conversational systems and chatbots

▪ Dialog Management

▪ Speech Data Mining applied to education, mental disease detection, etc.

▪ Computational models of Spoken Language (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, disfluencies, etc.).

▪ Paralinguistics in Speech and Language.

▪ Speaker and Language Identification

▪ Multimodal Information Processing

▪ Spoken language interfaces to educational systems.

▪ Spoken language interfaces to games.

▪ Spoken language interfaces to Health and medical systems.

▪ Spoken language interfaces in smart homes.

▪ Spoken language interfaces to assistive technology (car driving, robot and drone navigation, etc.)

▪ Emotion in speech.

▪ Deep Learning Architectures for Spoken Language Processing

▪ Speech coding and enhancement.

▪ Evaluation methodologies of the above systems.

▪ Speech data collection and annotation.

Track Chair

M. Zakaria KURDI, University of Lynchburg, USA

Program Committee

Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA

Sophie Rosset, Interdisciplinary Computer Sciences Laboratory (LISN),  Paris, France

Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Martin Karafiat, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Mengjie Qian, University of Cambridge, UK

Richard Dufour, Nantes University, France

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Jens Elkund, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Stanislaw Kacprzak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Said Desouki, AIU, Syria

Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Fazel Keshtkar, St John's University, USA

Others are being contacted

Important Dates

January 22, 2024 - Paper abstract submission (Abstract submission is mandatory to submit full paper!)

January 29, 2024 - Paper submission 

March 11, 2024 - Paper acceptance notification

March 18, 2024  - Poster abstract submission

March 25 , 2024  - Poster notification

April  1 , 2024 - Early registration 

April  8, 2024 - Camera ready version submission

April  13, 2024 - Accommodation group rate ends

May  1, 2024 - Late registration 

May  18 - 21, 2024 - FLAIRS-37 Conference

Papers and Abstracts

There are three kinds of submissions: 

Full paper – a paper describing mature novel research, up to 6 pages excluding references that will be published in the proceedings, and will be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation.

Short paper – a paper that shows some novelty and general interest but is more preliminary or in the early stages of development, up to 4 pages excluding references that get published in the proceedings, and will be presented by the author in a 10 minute oral presentation.

Poster paper, up to 2 pages excluding references that will be published as a poster paper, and will be presented by the author in a a poster session. 

Rejected full papers might be accepted as short papers or posters, if reviewers found interest in the idea but the paper quality was not sufficient to be published in full length. 

Appendices after the references are permitted but might not be reviewed, and appendices will not be permitted in the final version of the paper if it is accepted. 

Double-blind reviewing is used, so submitted papers must use fake/anonymized author names and affiliations. Papers must use the latest template and must be submitted as PDF.

FLAIRS will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during FLAIRS's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors will be required to confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.

The international Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference FLAIRS-37

FLAIRS-37 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of the art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, and presentations of papers, posters, and awards. Traditionally, FLAIRS features not only some of the world’s leading researchers and excellent speakers, but also quality submissions from students.

FLAIRS-37 will take place at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa. Hilton Sandestin Beach is considered one of the best family vacation resorts in Florida. On this resort property, they feature six distinctive dining choices, ranging from the casual Barefoot's Beachside Bar & Grill to the AAA Four-Diamond Seagar’s Prime Steaks & Seafood Restaurant. Guests at Hilton Sandestin Beach have full access to four award-winning, championship golf courses, a putting course, 15 tennis courts and bike rentals at Sandestin. The Destin area is world-famous for fishing, and the nearby Baytowne Marina offers bay, beach and gulf fishing charters, as well as boat rentals, wave runners, parasailing trips, and dinner and nature cruises. Only minutes away is The Village of Baytowne Wharf, home to charming shops and boutiques, a variety of restaurants, nightlife options and year-round festivals and other fun events and activities. Complimentary shuttles run regularly from Hilton Sandestin Beach to the golf courses and tennis courts at Sandestin, to Baytowne Marina and to The Village of Baytowne Wharf. 

Submission Instructions

Paper submission is a two-step process. First, the paper abstract must be registered in EasyChair by the Paper abstract submission deadline. Then, the full paper in PDF is due by the Paper submission deadline. Without registering an abstract on time, it will not be possible to submit the paper later. For each accepted paper there must be an accompanying AUTHOR REGISTRATION.  A single author may have up to a maximum of two papers per AUTHOR REGISTRATION. Author names may be changed or re-ordered after reviewing; however, for budgetary reasons, registration fees will be based on the details at the time of submission and review.

FLAIRS will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during FLAIRS's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors will be required to confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.