SLTC Looks Forward To ICASSP 2008
BY BRIAN MAK
This year, the speech and
language areas received a record high of 618 submissions! The huge number of
submissions puts a lot of pressure on our review process. Nevertheless, we
managed to make two improvements in the review process:
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With only a few exceptions,
each paper was reviewed by 4 reviewers, whereas, in the past, a review team
was composed of at most 3 reviewers
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At least one of the 4
reviewers of a paper was an SLTC member.
It is our hope that with the
addition of one more reviewer and an SLTC member in each paper review, the
review quality can be improved. We would like to thank all SLTC members and
external reviewers who finished the reviews in a timely and professional manner.
At the end, 300 papers are
accepted; that is, the acceptance rate is 48.5%. The accepted papers will be
presented at the ICASSP in April in 34 sessions: 14 lecture sessions and 20
poster sessions.
ICASSP 2008 Plenary Talk on Speech
or Spoken Language Processing
In the morning of Wednesday,
April 2nd 2008, Nitish Takhor will give a plenary talk entitled
From Brain to Hand: Decoding the Neural Code for Dexterous Prosthesis.
ICASSP
2008 Tutorial in Speech or Spoken Language Processing
T. Schultz and A. Black will
have a tutorial on the topic of Rapid Language Adaptation Tools and
Technologies for Multilingual Speech Processing Systems
in the Sunday Afternoon of
March 30th 2008.
ICASSP 2008 Special Session on
Speech or Spoken Language Processing
In the afternoon of Wednesday,
April 2nd 2008, there will be a special session (SPEC L6) on the
topic of Voice Search Technology and Applications. The massive growth of
cell-phone and web usage is creating important new opportunities for speech
recognition technology to be used to index, manage and retrieve information.
This special session brings together speakers from SRI, Bogazici University,
Microsoft, Tellme and Google to present cutting-edge research and applications
in the area.
