The 4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU'14) will be held in St Petersburg, Russia on 14-16 May 2014.

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages is the fourth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Three previous Workshops were organized: SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam) SLTU'14 Workshop has a special focus on Eastern European under-resourced languages (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Altaic, Caucasian, Turkic, etc.), but papers on automatic processing of under-resourced languages of any other area are also encouraged.

Topics of the Workshop include all areas related to processing of any under-resourced or endangered languages:

• Language resources development, acquisition, and representation: dictionary, language model, grammars, text and speech corpora, etc.
• Automatic speech recognition and synthesis of under-resourced languages and dialects.
• Multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis and synthesis.
• Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems.

Speech Communication special issue on processing under-resourced languages (January 2014) has been recently released www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676393/56.
Independently of the scientific actions we will provide excellent possibilities for acquaintance with the culture and history of St. Petersburg and its beautiful surroundings.

Important dates

• Full paper submission: 10 February, 2014 (closed)
• Notification of paper acceptance: 07 March, 2014
• Early registration: 24 March, 2014
• Submission of camera-ready papers: 31 March, 2014
• Workshop dates: 14-16 May, 2014