CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE ASRU 2005

Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Cancun, Mexico
November 27 – December 1, 2005

The Ninth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and  Understanding (ASRU) will be held November 27-December 1, 2005.   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. Papers in all areas of human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis placed on automatic speech recognition and understanding technology, speech to text systems, spoken dialog systems, multilingual language processing, robustness in ASR, spoken document retrieval, and speech-to-speech translation.
 
The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Ample time will be allowed for informal discussions and to enjoy the impressive tropical setting.  The workshop website http://www.asru2005.org will be accessible by January, 2005.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to www.asru2005.org . All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The ASRU 2005 website will provide you with further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
Special sessions proposals should be submitted by June 15, 2005, to asru05-tc@lists.csail.mit.edu and must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a description of how the session will be organized.

TENTATIVE  DATES

May 1, 2005            Workshop registration opens
July 1, 2005              Camera-ready paper submission deadline
August 15, 2005        Paper Acceptance / Rejection notices mailed
Sept. 15, 2005          Revised Papers Due and Author Registration Deadline
Oct. 1, 2005             Hotel Reservation and Workshop Registration
Nov. 27 – Dec.1, 2005    Workshop

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
           
General Chairs
    Jim Glass, MIT, USA
    Richard Rose, McGill University, Canada
Technical Chairs
    Michael Picheny, IBM, USA
    Renato de Mori, Avignon, France
    Richard Stern, CMU, USA
Publicity Chair
    Ruhi Sarikaya, IBM, USA
Publications Chair
    Dilek Hakkani-Tur, AT&T, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
    Juan Nolazco, Monterrey, Mexico
Demonstrations Chair
    Anand Venkataraman, SRI, USA