The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held between December 2-5, 2012 in Miami, FL. The goal of this workshop is to allow the speech/language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. SLT will include oral and poster presentations. In addition, there will be three keynote addresses by well-known experts on topics such as machine learning and speech/language processing. The workshop will also include free pre-workshop tutorials on introduction or recent advances in spoken language technology.

Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics:

Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language understanding
Spoken dialog systems
Spoken document summarization
Machine translation for speech
Question answering from speech
Speech data mining
Spoken document retrieval
Spoken language databases
Speaker/language recognition
Multimodal processing
Human/computer interaction
Educational and healthcare applications
Assistive technologies
Natural Language Processing
Important Deadlines

Paper Submission July 20, 2012
Notification September 7, 2012
Demo Submission September 6, 2012
Demo Notification October 5, 2012
Workshop December 2-5, 2012
Submission Procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2012 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.