SLaTE2007 Workshop
SLaTE
Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop
The
Summit Inn,
October
1-3, 2007.
Speech and natural language processing technologies have evolved
from being emerging new technologies to being reliable techniques that can be
used in real applications. One worthwhile application is education. This is not
only helpful to the end user, the student, but also to the researcher who can
learn more about the technology from observing its use in a real setting. This
workshop included presentations of both research projects and real applications
in the domain of speech and language technology in education.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
With the theme of
expanding horizons, the keynote speakers for the SLaTE 2007 workshop will be Nick
Ellis, Pamela
Bogart and Stephanie Seneff.
The
ISCA SIG, SLaTE, held its International Tutorial and Research Workshop from
October 1 - 3 2007.
There
were 30 oral papers in seven sessions and two sessions of 17 demonstrations of
software. With 55 participants from around the world, the meeting allowed
everyone time to discuss findings. The talks addressed subjects from phonetic
detection and instruction to the use of natural language technologies, and
spoken dialogue systems. The presentations were put into a wider perspective of
learning and language acquisition by the presence of researchers from a diverse
set of domains as well as from both academia and industry. Adding to the
quality of the workshop were the keynote speeches. Nick Ellis and Pamela Bogart
were the Monday keynote speakers; Stephanie Seneff was the Tuesday keynote
speaker.
CDs with the proceedings are available - send
requests to: us.
ORGANIZATION
The
workshop was organized by the new ISCA Special Interest Group, SLaTE. The
general chair is Dr. Maxine Eskenazi from
WORKSHOP THEMES
The
workshop will focus on research issues, applications, development tools and
collaboration. It will be concerned with
all topics which concern speech and language technology for education. Papers
will discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, persistent
difficulties, general research tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or
processing strategies will be especially welcome, as will prototype
demonstrations of real-world applications.
The
scope of acceptable topic interests includes but is not limited to:
- Use
of speech recognition for education
- Use
of natural language processing for education
- Use
of spoken language dialogue for education
-
Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
-
Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
-
Tutor assessment
PROGRAMME
As
per the spirit of ITRWs, the format of the workshop consisted of a
non-overlapping mixture of oral and demo sessions. Internationally recognized experts from
pertinent areas delivered several keynote lectures on topics of particular
interest.
SPECIAL – DEMO SESSION
Seventeen
demonstrations were given at the workshop.
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE
The
Scientific Committee consists of the following group of internationally
recognized researchers and scientists:
Abeer Alwan, UCLA
Jared Bernstein, Ordinate Corp.
Rodolfo Delmonte,
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon
Bjorn Granstrom, KTH
Valerie Hazan,
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Dominic Massaro,
Nobuaki Minematsu,
Patti Price, PPrice.com
Martin Russell,
Stephanie Seneff, MIT
Helmer Strik,