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ISCA SIG SLaTE: Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) is ‘Special Interest Group’ (SIG) of the ‘International Speech Communication Association’ (ISCA).
The ISCA SIG SLaTE initiated in mid-September 2006 at the Interspeech [ICSLP] 2006 conference in Pittsburgh.

Workshops:

• SLaTE 2023, 18/8-20/8, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [archive]
• SLaTE 2021, no SLaTE workshop, due to the pandemic
• SLaTE 2019, 20/9-21/9, Graz, Austria [archive]
• SLaTE 2017, 25/8-26/8, Stockholm, Sweden [archive];
  with a special session on the ‘Spoken CALL Shared Task’
• SLaTE 2015, 04/9–05/9, Leipzig, Germany [archive]
• SLaTE 2013, 30/8-01/9, Grenoble, France [archive]
• SLaTE 2011, 24/8-26/8, Venice, Italy  [archive]
• SLaTE 2010, 22/9-24/9, Tokyo, Japan [archive]
• SLaTE 2009, 03/9-05/9, Warwickshire, England  [archive]
• SLaTE 2007, 1/10-3/10, Farmington, Pennsylvania USA [archive]

Board:

• Chair: Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Secretary: Rahul Divekar (Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA)
• ISCA liaison officer: Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Int. scientific committee:

• Abeer Alwan, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Anton Batliner, University of Passau
• Kay Berkling, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW), Karlsruhe
• Jared Bernstein, Analytic Measures Inc.
• Jozef Colpaert, University of Antwerp
• Catia Cucchiarini, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• Rahul Divekar, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton
• Daniele Falavigna, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Povo
• Erika Godde, University of Burgundy
• Björn Granström, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
• Sake Jager, University of Groningen
• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
• Dominic Massaro, University of California – Santa Cruz
• Nobuaki Minematsu, University of Tokyo
• Patti Price, PPrice.com
• Mengjie Qian, Cambridge University
• Martin Russell, University of Birmingham
• Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• Febe de Wet, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria

Previous members of the Int. Sci. Cie.:

• Pierre Badin, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
• Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh
• Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton
• Diego Giuliani, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Povo
• Anastassia Loukina, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton

Aims of SLaTE:

• promote interest in (the use of) ‘Speech and Language Technology in Education’ (SLaTE)
• organization of meetings (esp. workshops)
• exchange of information (news, recent developments, etc.)

Other URLs:

• First version of the SLaTE website
• The URL http://www.sigslate.org no longer exists

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