SLaTE workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education WORKSHOP THEMES The workshop will focus on research issues, applications, development tools and collaboration. It will be concerned with all topics which concern speech and language technology for education. Papers will discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, persistent difficulties, general research tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or processing strategies will be especially welcome, as will prototype demonstrations of real-world applications. The scope of acceptable topic interests includes but is not limited to: * Use of speech recognition for education * Use of natural language processing for education * Use of spoken language dialogue for education * Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education * Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language * Tutor assessment We plan to have poster sessions as well as oral sessions. And a software demo session is also in the works. If you are interested in demonstrating software, you should contact the organizers before June 1. PROGRAMME As per the spirit of ITRWs, the format of the workshop will consist of a non-overlapping mixture of oral, poster and demo sessions. Internationally recognized experts from pertinent areas will deliver several keynote lectures on topics of particular interest. All poster sessions will be opened by an oral summary by the session chair. A number of poster sessions will be succeeded by a discussion session focussing on the subject of the session. The aim of this structure is to ensure a lively and valuable workshop for all involved. Furthermore, the organizers would like to encourage researchers and industrialists to bring along their applications, as well as prototype demonstrations and design tools where appropriate. The official language of the workshop is English. This is to help guarantee the highest degree of international accessibility to the workshop. At the opening of the workshop hardcopies and CD-ROM of the abstracts and proceedings will be available. CALL FOR PAPERS We seek outstanding technical articles in the vein discussed above. For those who intend to submit papers, the deadline is May 1, 2007. Following preliminary review by the committee, notification will be sent regarding acceptance/rejection. Interested authors should send full 4 page camera-ready papers. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~max/mainpage_files/SLATE_files/SLaTE07-Call%20for%20Participation.htm