Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics, including both traditional SLT areas as well as emerging ones: Traditional topic coverage: Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language understanding Spoken dialog systems Spoken document summarization Machine translation for speech Question answering from speech Speech data mining Spoken document retrieval Spoken language databases Speaker/language recognition Multimodal processing Human/computer interaction Assistive technologies Natural Language Processing Educational and healthcare applications Emerging areas: Large scale spoken language understanding Massive data resources for spoken language technology Unsupervised methods in spoken language technologies Capturing and representing world knowledge in spoken language technologies Web search with spoken language technologies Spoken language technologies in social networks Multimedia applications Intelligent environments