The 8th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019) will be held in Graz, Austria, on September 20 - 21, 2019. SLaTE 2019 will be a satellite workshop at Interspeech 2019 and will take place at the University of Graz. SLaTE 2019 is sponsored by ISCA’s Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SIG-SLATE).

SLaTE 2019 will feature 18 papers in the general session, 4 papers in a special session about the Spoken CALL Shared Task (version 3), and 4 demo papers. Two keynote presentations will be given by Martin Russell, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Birmingham, and by Dorothy Chun, professor in the Department of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. Further information about the SLaTE 2019 program is available here.

The main aim of SIG-SLaTE is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working on the use of speech and natural language processing for educational purposes. Further information about SIG-SLATE is available here.

Contact the organizers: slate2019@gmail.com

Organizing Committee

• SLaTE 2019 Local Organizer: Barbara Schuppler, Graz University of Technology

• ISCA SIG-SLaTE Chairperson: Helmer Strik, Radboud University

• ISCA SIG-SLaTE Secretary/Treasurer: Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service

Contact

Contact the organizers: slate2019@gmail.com