The International Speech Communication Association Special Interest Group (ISCA SIG) on

Speech and Language Technology in Education

A special interest group was created in mid-September 2006 at the Interspeech 2006 conference in Pittsburgh. This is its official website. On this site you can find information about the SIG.

The next SLaTE ITRW will be in 2009 in England; here is early information about this exciting meeting!

OUR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) shall be to promote interest in the use of speech and natural language processing for education; to provide members of ISCA with a special interest in speech and language technology in education with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Speech and Language Technology in Education; to sponsor meetings and workshops on that subject that appear to be timely and worthwhile, operating within the framework of ISCA's by-laws for SIGs; and to provide and make available resources relevant to speech and language technology in education, including text and speech corpora, analysis tools, analysis and generation software, research papers and generated data.

Activities

SLaTE Workshops

SLaTE ITRW Workshop October 1-3 2007 in Farmington Pennsylvania.

You can obtain proceedings of this ITRW from ISCA.

OTHER Workshops AND RELATED MEETINGS

We hark back to the first meeting of researchers interested in this area that was organized by our colleagues at KTH and held in Marholmen Sweden in 1998 http://www.speech.kth.se/still/.

Another meeting of interest in our field was held in Venice in 2004. It was organized by Rodolfo Delmonte. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/icall2004/index.html

A very interesting session was held at Interspeech 2006 by Patti Price and Abeer Alwan. The papers were reviewed by four panelists and you can see the panelists’ slides here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Speech Communication

on

Spoken Language Technology for Education

SLaTE is chaired by Maxine Eskenazi of Carnegie Mellon University and its secretary is Martin Russell of the University of Birmingham (UK). We can be found at www.sigslate.org.

The scientific committee of SLaTE:

Abeer Alwan, UCLA

Jared Bernstein, Ordinate Corp.

Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice

Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon

Bjorn Granstrom, KTH

Valerie Hazan, University College, London

Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh

Dominic Massaro, University of California – Santa Cruz

Nobuaki Minematsu, University of Tokyo

Patti Price, PPrice.com

Martin Russell, University of Birmingham

Stephanie Seneff, MIT

Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Nijmegen

To find more information about ISCA, click here.

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