Dear colleagues,
the ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models will be organized by Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
Topics which we aim to address include but are not limited to
- User diversity: Which aspects of human speech and language production affect the performance of large foundation models? In which way, and for which tasks?
- Language use: How are large language models able to cope with different languages, dialects, and sociolects? How do they deal with code switching?
- Human adaptation: How does the use of large language models affect language comprehension, as well as speech and language production? Which alignment effects occur, and in which time spans?
- Model adaptation: How do models need to be designed to better cope with speech and language diversity? How do training and finetuning affect model performance?
- Inclusion: What data and technologies are necessary to better cope with diversity in large speech and language models?
We invite both experimental and positional papers addressing these and other related research questions.
The workshop will consist of a number of oral presentations and discussion panels. Accepted speakers are invited to submit a short or long paper which will be published online after the workshop.
Important dates:
- Abstract submission: 13 December 2024
- Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2025
- Short or long paper submission: 14 February 2025
More details can be found here.
Sebastian Möller
