The eleventh biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 13-17, 2009. The ASRU workshops
have a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an
intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech
recognition and understanding.

Workshop topics

Papers in all areas of human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with
emphasis placed on:
• automatic speech recognition and understanding
• human speech recognition and understanding
• speech to text systems
• spoken dialog systems
• multilingual language processing
• robustness in ASR
• spoken document retrieval
• speech-to-speech translation
• spontaneous speech processing
• speech summarization, and
• new applications of ASR.

Submissions for the technical program

The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, and
panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers,
including figures and references, to the ASRU 2009 website http://www.asru2009.org/.
All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with
further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

Schedule

Paper submission deadline July 15, 2009
Paper notification of acceptance September 3, 2009
Demo session proposal deadline September 24, 2009
Early registration deadline October 7, 2009
Workshop December 13-17, 2009

Registration and information

Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given
to paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2009 website,
http://www.asru2009.org/, where more information on the workshop will be available.

Organizing committee

General Chairs
Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento, Italy
Renato De Mori, U. Avignon, France

Technical Chairs
Jeff Bilmes, U. Washington, USA
Pascale Fung, HKUST, Hong Kong China
Shri Narayanan, USC, USA
Tanja Schultz, U. Karlsruhe, Germany

Panel Chairs
Alex Acero, Microsoft, USA
Mazin Gilbert, AT&T, USA

Demo Chairs
Alan Black, CMU, USA
Piero Cosi, CNR, Italy

Publicity Chairs
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI, USA
Isabel Trancoso, INESC -ID/IST, Portugal

Publication Chair
Giuseppe di Fabbrizio, AT&T, USA

Local Chair
Maurizio Omologo, FBK-irst, Italy

Scientific committee

Jont Allen, UIUC, USA
Abeer Alwan, UCLA, USA
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T, USA
Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon, France
Kay Berkling, Polytechnic U., Puerto Rico
Ciprian Chelba, Google, USA
Stephen Cox, U. East Anglia, UK
Jasha Droppo, Microsoft, USA
Marcello Federico, FBK-irst, Italy
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U., USA
Yuqing Gao, IBM, USA
Thomas Hain, U. Sheffield, UK
John Hansen, UTD, USA
Michael Johnston, AT&T, USA
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto U., Japan
Dietrich Klakow, Saarland U., Germany
Piero Laface, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Gary Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Brian Mak, HKUST, Honk Kong, China
Satoshi Nakamura, ATR, Japan
Douglas O’Shaughnessy, INRS, Canada
Roberto Pieraccini, SpeechCycle, USA
Alexandros Potamianos, TUC, Greece
Brian Roark, OGI, USA
Murat Saraclar, Bogazici U., Turkey
Michael Seltzer, Microsoft, USA
Olivier Siohan, Google, USA
Frank Soong, Microsoft, China
Gokahn Tür, SRI, USA
Steve Young, U. Cambridge, UK