Subject: [AUDITORY] [CfP] MLSLP 2021 - Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing 2021 From: Hao Tang <haotang@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 14:45:22 +0100Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing 2021 Online, Sep 6, 2021 https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/htang2/sigml/mlslp2021/ # Important Dates Jun 10, 2021 Papers/abstracts due Jul 10, 2021 Notification of acceptance Jul 26, 2021 Registration deadline Aug 10, 2021 Final abstract/paper deadline Sep 6, 2021 Workshop # Topic MLSLP is a recurring workshop, often joint with machine learning or speech/natural language processing conferences. Prior workshops were held in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2018. While research in speech and language processing has always involved machine learning, current research is benefiting from even closer interaction between these fields. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from ML and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. The workshop will not be yet another venue for applications of deep learning to speech and language processing, as this is already well covered by major conferences. It will, however, include new directions for deep learning in speech/language, as well as other emerging ideas. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences. MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the Special Interest Group on machine learning in speech and language processing of ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association). # Call for Participation Prospective authors are invited to submit 2-page abstracts or 4=E2=80=936 p= age papers. Each paper/abstract will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Each accepted paper/abstract must have at least one registered author. Submission details can be found on the workshop website. # Invited Speakers Michael Auli (Facebook) Jan Chorowski (University of Wroclaw) Hung-yi Lee (National Taiwan University) Yuzong Liu (Amazon) Odette Sharenborg (TU Delft) Chengyi Wang (Microsoft) Yu Zhang (Google) # Scientific Committee Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Yanzhang (Ryan) He (Google) Andrew Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Rohit Prabhavalkar (Google) Xiaodong Cui (IBM) Bhuvana Ramadabran (Google) Liang Lu (Microsoft) Huayuan Zhang (I2R A*STAR) Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) # Organizing Committee Anton Ragni, U. Sheffield (general chair) Yao Qian, Microsoft, (general chair) Preethi Jyothi, IIT Bombay (program chair) Hao Tang, U. Edinburgh (program chair) If you have any questions, please email isca-sigml-board@xxxxxxxx