Overview

The 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2025) will be held in Nijmegen, Netherlands on 22-24th August 2025 as a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2025. 

SLaTE 2025 will run for two days with a third day for social activities for those who wish. 

Email: isca.slate2025@gmail.com

Core SLaTE Areas:

- Speech technology for education
- Natural language processing for education
- Spoken dialogue systems for education
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
- Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
- Development of language resources for SLaTE applications
- Assessment of SLaTE methods and applications

Workshop Program

Day 1 (Aug 22): 

• TBD

Day 2 (Aug 23): 

• TBD

Day 3 (Aug 24 - optional): Social outing and dinner - details to be announced

Important Dates

Paper Submission

Initial Paper Submission - 22 May, 2025 (24:00 GMT)

Final Paper Submission - 29 May, 2025 (24:00 GMT)

Paper Notifications Sent - 6 July, 2025 (24:00 GMT) July 8, 2025

Camera Ready Paper Due - 18 July, 2025 (24:00 GMT)

Registration and Workshop

Workshop Dates - 22-24 August, 2025

The social event will take place on Sunday August 24th from 12.00-14.00h and includes lunch. After 14.00h it is possible to go for drinks at the local brewery. Both activities take place in the city centre of Nijmegen.

You can co-register together with Interspeech 2025 OR, use one of the following links that apply to you [Registration links TBD].

Page Lengths and Formats:

1. Full Papers (5 pages including references) e.g., Experimental papers, discursive or position papers, etc. Use template same as Interspeech

2. Short Papers (2 pages including references) e.g., Demo papers, Early-career/Student papers. Use same template as Interspeech

Both tracks will have proceedings

Also see the FAQ list.

Although the same template as Interspeech 2025 is used, the papers should NOT be anonymous.
Therefore, please uncomment the line with \interspeechcameraready from the template

At least one author from a paper must register and present at the workshop.

All papers submitted to SLaTE 2025 must be original contributions that are not currently submitted to any other conference, workshop, or journal, nor will be submitted to any other conference, workshop, or journal during the review process of SLaTE 2025. In all such paper submissions, any use of prior material should be cited by a reference to the source of that prior material, including one’s own work, i.e., if an author uses earlier existing material, whether from one’s own work or that of others, that work should be cited in the paper’s list of references.  (Same as Interspeech)

Paper Submission Portal

Please submit your papers at - https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SLATE2025/ 

Shared Challenge

Spoken language assessment and feedback are crucial components of language learning, yet developing robust and inclusive automated tools for this purpose remains a challenge. The Speak & Improve Challenge 2025, a special session at SLaTE 2025, aims to address these challenges by leveraging the rich Speak & Improve dataset. This dataset includes diverse speaker profiles and comprehensive annotations, offering a unique opportunity to advance spoken language processing technologies.

The challenge comprises four tasks that tackle critical problems in spoken language technology:

• Spoken Grammatical Error Correction Feedback (SGECF): Providing spoken grammatical error correction feedback.

• Spoken Language Assessment (SLA): Evaluating holistic proficiency of learners’ spoken responses.

• Spoken Grammatical Error Correction (SGEC): Detecting and correcting grammatical errors in learner speech.

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): Improving ASR performance for L2 learners’ speech.

Participants can join either the Closed Track, restricted to the provided datasets and models, or the Open Track, which allows the use of additional publicly available resources. Baseline systems will be provided, and performance will be evaluated using robust metrics tailored to each task. This challenge provides an opportunity for researchers to explore innovative approaches in spoken language technology and collaborate on creating inclusive and effective tools for language assessment and learning. For more information, refer to the Speak & Improve challenge 2025 website.

Code of Ethics

• ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference proceedings. Our code-of-ethics for authors can be found at: https://www.isca-speech.org/Code-of-Ethics-for-Authors

• ISCA is committed to a pleasant conference experience without harassment and discrimination. Our code-of-conduct can be found at: https://www.isca-speech.org/Code-of-Conduct-for-Conference-and-Workshop-Attendees

About SLaTE and ISCA

SLaTE 2025 will be organized by the ISCA's Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SIG-SLATE). The main aim of SIG-SLaTE is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working on the use of speech and natural language processing for educational purposes. Further information about SIG-SLATE is available here.

If you have questions, remarks, want to sponsor, etc.; please contact the organizers: isca.slate2025@gmail.com 

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