LINGUIST List 22.4932 Thu Dec 08 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Africa Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Pascal Nocera , Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages Message 1: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages Date: 08-Dec-2011 From: Pascal Nocera <pascal.nocerauniv-avignon.fr> Subject: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages Short Title: SLTU'12 Date: 07-May-2012 - 09-May-2012 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Contact Person: Pascal Nocera Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 13-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: The workshop will focus on spoken language processing for under-resourced languages and aims at gathering researchers working on: ASR, synthesis and translation for under-resourced languages Portability issues Multilingual spoken language processing Fast resource acquisition (speech, text, lexicons, parallel corpora) Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages Other related topics SLTU'12 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for the presentation of research results related to under-resourced languages. For SLTU'12, the languages of Africa will receive particular attention, but papers on all under-resourced languages are invited. Students are encouraged to participate in SLTU'12 - financial support for such participation is being sought, and will be announced on the workshop website. Call for Papers: Format of Papers: The submission should be in the PDF format. You can use the templates available on our website and then save the document in PDF. Submission: Go to the submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sltu2012 You will need to create an account (if you do not already have one) in order to submit your paper. Important Dates: Paper submission: 13 January 2012, with modifications allowed until 20 January 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: 7 February 2012 Camera ready papers due: 28 February 2012 Author registration deadline: 28 February 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Dec-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.