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The Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics - ExLing - will be held in Athens, Greece on August 25-27 2010. Persons interested in making their contribution should have submitted full papers by the 1st of June 2010 via the ExLing website.

The seventh edition of SSW - Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Kyoto, Japan on August 22-24 2010. More information is available at http://www.ssw7.org/.

We inform that the next volume of the annual published by the Polish Phonetic Association is under preparation.
We invite you to submit papres on topics relevant in the field of:
- speech and language technology (speech synthesis, recognition)
- speech and language processing
- linguistics
- phonetics and phonology
- speech production and perception
- speech acoustics
- prosody
- second language learning (especially as regards pronunciation and prosody training in L2)
- phonetics in medical applications

The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be held in Malta, from June 19 to 21 2010. Deadlines for regular manuscript submission and revision are now passed. Author's information is available at the conference website.

The Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody will be held in Chicago on May 11-14, 2010. Deadlines for regular manuscript submission and revision are now passed. Author's registration deadline and the post-review manuscript revision deadline are on the the 28th of February 2010. More information can be found at the conference website.

The next INTERSPEECH conferences will be held in 2010 in Makuhari (Japan), 2011 in Florence (Italy) and 2012 in Portland (USA). The deadline for paper submission for INTERSPEECH 2010 was scheduled on 30th of April. More information is available at the conference website.

Information on other workshops, conferences and events in the field of speech and language technology, linguistics and phonetics in general can be found at the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and Elsnet (European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies) websites.
If you are searching for information on academic and professional positions for linguists visit http://linguistlist.org/.

The yearbook Speech and Language Technology (SLT) has been pubished by the Polish Phonetic Association for almost 40 years (at the beginning under the title "Speech Synthesis and Analysis"). The first Editor-in-Chief was prof. Wiktor Jassem, the second (and present) - prof. UAM Grażyna Demenko.
All published work is reviewed by a committee of experts in linguistics and computer science:
Grażyna Demenko (Institute of Linguistics, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań),