SPECOM

IMPORTANT INFO (!)

Due to Covid-19 pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2020 International conference, including satellite ICR-2020, will be organized as a FULLY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE via online web-service Zoom, prerecorded video presentations will be possible as well. The conference starts on Wednesday, 7th October, and it is free of charge for all listeners.

Participant's guide

Please pay attention to this Zoom guide for participating in the virtual conference.

The conference

The International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) is an interdisciplinary scientific event with a long tradition, the first SPECOM was held in St. Petersburg in 1996. Every year SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, etc.

Organizers

The conference is organized by

- St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia)

- Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia)

Submission of papers

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-12 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. SPECOM Proceedings are published by Springer in the LNCS (LNAI) series.

The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020.

Proceedings

Free online access to the electronic proceedings of 22nd International Conference SPECOM 2020 – Springer LNAI vol. 12335 is available for 4 weeks (since early October 2020).

Free online access to the electronic proceedings of 5th International Conference ICR 2020 – Springer LNAI vol. 12336 is available for 4 weeks (since early October 2020).

Important dates:

June 15, 2020 .................. Submission of full papers (extended)

July 15, 2020 ................... Notification of acceptance (extended)

July 29, 2020 ................... Camera-ready papers

August 05, 2020 .............. Author registration

October 07-09, 2020 ........ Conference dates

The proceedings will be available to participants at the time of the conference.