Subject: Submission Deadline June 15: Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing From: Mark A Hasegawa-Johnson <jhasegaw@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 20:04:20 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Papers are invited for the second annual Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing, to be held Friday September 14, 2012 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, USA. Authors are invited to submit a four-page paper on any topic in the area of Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing including: • Learned Representations and Learned Metrics for Speech and Language Processing • Sparse Representations for Speech and Language Processing • Constrained and Regularized Optimization Methods for Speech and Language Processing • Novel Optimality Criteria for Speech and Language Processing Applications • Active Learning, Crowd-Sourcing, and Artificial Artificial Intelligence • Semi-Supervised Learning, Transfer Learning, and Indirect Supervision • Generalization Bounds and Consistency Proofs for Speech and Language Processing Dates June 15, 2012 – Full paper submission deadline July 10, 2012 – Acceptance letters mailed August 15, 2012 – Early registration deadline September 14, 2012 – Symposium Submission Information Papers should be submitted in four-page, two-column professional conference format. Submissions will be accepted at the conference website, http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2012/, beginning April 16, 2012. Sponsoring Organizations MLSLP’12 is the second annual meeting of the Machine Learning Special Interest Group (SIGML) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). • Scientific Chair: Joseph Keshet, TTI-Chicago • Speech Processing Chair: Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago • Natural Language Processing Chair: David Chiang, USC and ISI • Machine Learning Chair: Fei Sha, USC • Local Organization: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC