SLT4MED 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications

COLING conference workshop

Manchester, England Saturday, August 23, 2008


 * Deadline: 5 May ***

http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/

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Medical applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech translation, held at HLT 2006, several advanced prototype systems were demonstrated, and a measure of consensus emerged on at least some points:

application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature. For this reason, we are broadening the scope of the second workshop to include other safety-critical tasks, such as emergency response.
 * The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other

realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future.
 * The technology is mature enough that useful systems can

if they can be made available on mobile or wearable hardware platforms.
 * Systems targeted on these kinds of applications are often more useful

client users (patients in the case of medical applications) to play an active role.
 * The basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the

Despite this, there is so far little agreement on many central questions, including choices of architectures, component technologies, and evaluation methodologies. In this second workshop, we would again like to create a forum where people interested in these types of systems can meet, exchange ideas and demo live systems. We hope that the concrete result of the meeting will be the definition of at least one shared task for the emerging medical/safety-critical speech translation community, which will include shared data sets and an agreed-on evaluation methodology appropriate to the special characteristics of the domain.

SUBMISSION:

Submissions may be of the following kinds:

speech translation for medical and other safety-critical applications. We particularly encourage papers describing user-centered system evaluations.
 * Long papers (up to 8 pages) describing substantial work on

Submission of a long paper does NOT preclude submission of an accompanying demo paper.
 * System demonstrations, accompanied by short papers (up to 4 pages).

ASR, MT and TTS, which are particularly relevant to medical and safety critical speech translation.
 * Short papers (up to 4 pages) describing component systems, including

shared task.
 * Position statements (up to 4 pages) suggesting definitions of a

All submissions should use the style files available on the main COLING conference web site. Author information should be included in the papers, since reviewing will NOT be blind. The main workshop page will soon include a link for submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop paper submission deadline		5 May Notification of acceptance of workshop papers	6 June Camera-ready copy of papers due			1 July

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier		U Grenoble, France Pierrette Bouillon (co-chair)	U Geneva, Switzerland Mike Dillinger			SpokenTranslation, US Farzad Ehsani (co-chair)	Fluential, US Glenn Flores			U Texas, US Robert Frederking (co-chair)	CMU, US Hitoshi Isahara			NICT, Japan Shri Narayanan			USC, US Aarne Ranta			U Gothenburg, Sweden Manny Rayner (co-chair)		U Geneva, Switzerland Tanja Schultz			U Karlsruhe, Germany Harold Somers			U Manchester, UK Bowen Zhou			IBM, US

QUERIES:

Please address queries to Manny Rayner (Emmanuel.Rayner@issco.unige.ch) or Pierrette Bouillon (Pierrette.Bouillon@issco.unige.ch) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP