Spoken language is the favored media of communication between human beings whether face-to-face or through various communication tools such as the phone, voice chat applications or even the general media like the radio or TV. Hence, adding conversational interfaces to various types of computer software and hardware devices will make them more natural. To achieve this goal, there are still multiple challenges at all the levels from speech recognition and synthesis, spoken language understanding and generation as well as dialog management. To meet these challenges, interdisciplinary work at the cross roads between linguistics, AI, Data Science, and Cognitive Science is carried by researchers around the world.
The goal of this track is to be a forum for scholars and scientists to present their empirical research, and well-grounded theory related to Spoken Language Processing as well as to Dialog and Conversational Systems.
Topics: Spoken Language Processing, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Dialog and Conversational Systems, speaker recognition, Spoken Language interfaces, emotion in speech