Special Session on Industrial Speech and Language Technology

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About the session

This session aims to bring together industry researchers to share their challenges and ways to formulate problems for speech and language-related applications. Industry researchers are working on voice products and millions of customers use them on a daily basis. Being researchers in the forefront of deploying speech and language technologies, you, your group and company have access to real-world  challenges. These challenges may be of current relevance or of immediate future requirements and require attention of the research community to focus to develop approaches.

We believe you have valuable insights and challenges to share with the Indian and international speech and language community, and we would love to hear your perspective on advancing the field of speech and language technology. Sharing these challenges with the SPECOM audience may help understand possible academic researchers perspectives on solving them and foster future collaboration.

A white paper can be a document describing a problem, a trivial solution, some experimental results (optional) or a vision of challenges derived from the user's feedback. It is to be emphasized that the paper need not include experimental results or technical innovation but rather focus on problem formulation, impact, and future directions. 

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit a white paper in English formatted in the Springer LNCS/LNAI style, and it must be 8-14 pages long. Papers submitted to the session should follow the regular SPECOM paper review process. The full paper submission deadline is the same as the regular paper. For other submission details, authors can visit our submission page (https://www.iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023/Submissions.html).

Draft template for the white paper

• Title: Include the title of your white paper.

• Abstract: Provide a brief summary of your white paper's main points and objectives. 

• Introduction: Explain the purpose and scope of the white paper, and provide an overview of the defined challenges. Briefly explain why your topic is relevant and important for the field of speech and language technology, including the expected impact. 

• Problem statement: Motivate the problem and provide a detailed discussion of the problem definition and reasons for immediate attention of the research community on developing newer approaches. You can include relevant background information and context of your problem statement. Include the short and long-term vision and application for the problem statement based on the current state of the art. 

• Existing solutions: You can discuss existing solutions with some experimental results (optional) and why they may not work in the deployed scenarios. You can also include some examples, case studies to illustrate how conventional approaches may not work in practice. 

• Discussion and Suggestions: With use cases / case studies you may discuss the challenges being faced by existing solutions. Based on this you may suggest directions where researchers can focus to do R&D and bring out solutions.

• Summary: Highlight the key takeaways and implications for the speech and language researcher community by summarizing the white paper.

• References: List all the sources you cited in your white paper.