*2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies* We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for an *Eight Week Residential Summer Research Workshop* at Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic, *from June 9 to August 1, 2025 (**Tentative**)* *CALL FOR PROPOSALS* Deadline: *Tuesday, October 15, 2024*. We invite one-page research proposals for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT). Proposals should advance *human language technologies* (HLT) or related areas of *artificial intelligence* (AI) including *computer vision* and *robotics*, or enable their applications, e.g. in *healthcare* or * education*. Proposals may address emerging or long-standing challenges. Areas of interest in 2025 include but are *not limited to* *TEXT UNDERSTANDING*: *Challenges of large language models (LLMs), including auditability of training data, high cost of pretraining & fine-tuning, interpretability, explainability, prompt-brittleness, hallucinations & misaligned behavior; Machine translation for informal, dialectal and low-resource languages.* *SPEECH UNDERSTANDING*: *Robust models for understanding **challenging audio**, including dialectal, code-mixed and far-field speech; Speaker identity, voice anonymization, deep-fake generation and detection; Synthesizing spoken conversations for model training in new languages, domains and acoustic conditions.* *MULTIMODAL UNDERSTANDING*: * Multimodal foundation models (including LLMs) for audio, text, images, handwriting and machine-print; Application of multimodal models in education, scientific discovery, health monitoring and healthcare delivery; Embodied AI.* *RESPONSIBLE AI*:* Privacy-preserving model training and inference for HLT/AI; Designing HLT/AI systems to be equitable/fair to all demographics; Preventing/Mitigating harmful behavior of HLT/AI models; Securing HLT/AI models against adversarial actors and operating conditions.* Research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops. All received proposals will be screened for *basic feasibility*, and results of this screening will be communicated by *October 18*, 2024. Authors of feasible proposals will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in *Baltimore* on *November 15-17*, 2024. At this meeting, proposals will be peer-reviewed in depth, revised iteratively and interactively to address any concerns and to incorporate new ideas from the floor, and 3-4 topics will eventually be selected for pursuit in Summer 2025. These workshops aim to bring together “dream teams” to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics: teams that are interdisciplinary and diverse in many ways including institutionally, demographically, and seniority of researchers. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams, and another 3-5 senior researchers from academia, industry and government join each team. 3-5 PhD students familiar with the topic are then selected, based on their demonstrated research performance, in consultation with the senior researchers. Finally, a few outstanding undergraduates, typically rising-seniors from a variety of majors, are selected via a nationwide search. If you are interested in leading a dream team in JSALT 2025, please *submit a one-page research proposal* for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. *If your proposal (or a modified version of it) is chosen for pursuit next summer, we expect you to be resident at the workshop for 6+ weeks*. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith assertion that if a topic advocated by you is chosen, you will actively pursue it with us. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to enable your travel to, residence at and participation in the workshop, including airfare, housing, meals and incidentals. The peer-review meeting and summer workshop will be *in-person* events. *Please submit proposals to **jsalt2025@jh.edu <jsalt2025@jh.edu>** by **Tuesday, October 15, 2024**.* **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** You received this message because you are listed as a subscriber to the following mailing list: clsp-htl-list@lists.jh.edu To unsubscribe, click this link and send the email: mailto: sympa@lists.jh.edu?subject=unsubscribe%20clsp-htl-list If the link above does not work, manually send an email to sympa@lists.jh.edu with this exact subject line: unsubscribe clsp-htl-list Contact list owner: mailto:clsp-htl-list-request@lists.jh.edu -- https://tuetschek.github.io