SLaTE 2019

Call for Papers

SLaTE 2019 (The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education)

September 20 - 21, 2019

Graz, Austria

The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019) will be held in conjunction with Interspeech 2019 in Graz, Austria, on September 20 - 21, 2019. Please save the date!

The workshop will welcome papers covering all topics related to speech and language technology in education. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• speech technology for first and second language learning

• natural language processing for education

• spoken dialog systems for education

• applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education

• intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language

• robot-assisted learning

• development of language resources for SLaTE applications

• assessment and user studies of SLaTE methods and applications

• theoretical and methodological issues in SLaTE

• use of speech synthesis for language learning

• serious games in SLaTE

• SLaTE for communicative disorders and pathology

In addition, following the first edition of the Spoken CALL Shared Task at SLaTE 2017 and the second edition at Interspeech 2018, we invite submissions to the third edition as a special session at SLaTE 2019. This shared task will use the same training data and resources as the second edition, but the results will be evaluated on new test data. Given the strong results reported in the second edition, we are however making an important change: the third edition will use a new and more challenging scoring metric. Full details are available from the Shared Task 3 site.

Papers should be submitted at the EasyChair submission portal for SLaTE 2019 by June 3, 2019; final revisions to the papers can be made in the EasyChair site until June 9, 2019, however, the title and authors of the paper should not be changed after the initial submission for the June 3 deadline.

Paper submissions must conform to the formatting guidelines defined in the Interspeech 2019 author's kit. SLaTE 2019 will consider both full papers and demo papers:

• Full papers: Full papers should describe the results of a research study and can include a maximum of four pages of text with an optional fifth page consisting of references only.
• Demo papers: Demo papers should describe a system, application, or capability which would then be presented to SLaTE 2019 attendees in a demo session. Demo papers can include a maximum of two pages, including references (a video submission is not required for SLaTE 2019 demo papers).

Please contact slate2019@gmail.com if you have any questions.