The first International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba

The first workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) sponsored by IEEE and ACL will be held on December 10&#8211;December 13, 2006&#046; The goal of this workshop is to bring the speech processing and natural language processing communities together to share and present recent advances in the area of spoken language technology, and to discuss and foster new research in this area&#046; Spoken language technology is a vibrant research area, with the potential for significant impact on government and industrial applications&#046; <b>Keywords:</b> Spoken language understanding;<br>Spoken document summarization,<br>Machine translation for speech;<br>Spoken language generation;<br>Spoken document retrieval;<br>Human/Computer Interactions (HCI);<br>Speech data mining;<br>Information extraction from speech;<br>Question/Answering from speech;<br>Multimodal processing;<br>Spoken dialog systems;<br>Spoken language systems, applications, and standards&#046;<br>