The second edition of the International conference on Speech & Language Technology for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL) will be held at Kongu Engineering College,TAMIL NADU, INDIA during December 06-08, 2023. The main focus of the conference is the creation and maintaining speech and language data and technologies for the low-resourced languages to use in industry as well as use cases in humanities and social sciences. Speech and Language Technology for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL) aims at bringing together researchers from across the world working on low-resourced and minority languages to create more speech and language technology for languages of the world. We need to create data in the form of speech and language technology so the languages do not go extinct so that we can save the cultural extinctions. Language data is of increasing importance to advanced artificial intelligence approaches for speech and language technologies.

The broader objective of SPELLL-2023 will be

• To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for low-resources languages.
• To promote research in speech and language technology in low-resource languages.
• To adopt appropriate language technology models which suit low-resources languages.
• To provide opportunities for researchers from the low-resource language community from around the world to collaborate with other researchers.

This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across the world working on low-resourced and minority languages to create more speech and language technology for languages of the world.

Workshop Proposal Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below). The proposals should be atmost two pages for the main proposal and atmost two additional pages for information about organizers, program committee, Reviewers, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long.

The two pages for the main proposal must include:

1. A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content
2. A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
3. An estimate of the number of attendees.
4. A description of special requirements and technical needs.
5. If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.

Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include:

1. The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events.
2. A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
3. References

In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the easychair system. Click Here To Submit your Proposals.

1. A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
2. A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
3. A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.

The proposals should be submitted no later than July 10, 2023, 11:59 PM IST. Submission is electronic. Send your application proposals with the title giving the preferred venue and "workshop proposals". The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee.

General Chair 

• Anand Kumar M, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
• Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland, Ireland
• Thenmozhi Durairaj, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
• Bharathi B, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
• Subalalitha C N, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
• Malliga Subramanian, Kongu Engineering College, India

Workshop Chair 

• S.Angel Deborah, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
• Sangeetha Sivanesan, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India (lead)
• Abirami Murugappan, Anna University, India
• B.Krishnakumar, Kongu Engineering College, India
• Eswari Rajagopal, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India
• Gyorgy Kovacs, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden
• Dhivya Chinnappa, Thomson Reuters, United States of America
• Momchil Hardalov, Amazon AWS AI Lab, Spain

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to angeldeborahs@ssn.edu.in, abirami@auist.net, krishnakumar@kongu.ac.in