We would like to draw your attention to the International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, which will be taking place on November 17-18, 2006 in Academia Sinica, Taiwan. This symposium will focus on research results on the processing, analysis and understanding of the linguistic characteristics of spontaneous speech. And it will also provide an excellent opportunity for linguists, speech engineers, and practitioners of natural language processing and system developers to share with each other the latest thinking and results on spontaneous speech. With no restriction on the languages under investigation, we are interested in contributions concerned with phenomena in all languages. Selected papers from the symposium will be published in a book in the Language and Linguistics Monograph Series by the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. For further details about this symposium, please visit our website at http://www.lpss.sinica.edu.tw.

We are looking for papers on the following topics. (1) corpora of spontaneous speech, (2) linguistic analyses on spontaneous speech, (3) characteristics of disfluency in spontaneous speech, (4) understanding spontaneous speech in dialogue systems, (5) automatic speech recognition of spontaneous speech, (6) automatic or manual labelling of spontaneous speech data and any other topics related to spontaneous speech.

The full papers should not be longer than 15 A4 pages. They should use Times New Roman, 12pt and single line spacing throughout the paper. Author information should appear in a separate page containing the following information: (1) title of the paper, (2) name(s) of the author(s), (3) affiliation(s), (4) postal address, and (5) e-mail address for correspondence. We accept only electronic submissions; please send your paper in pdf format to Dr. Shu-Chuan Tseng (tsengsc@gate.sinica.edu.tw).