Following the success of 1st AAAS workshop in March 2025, we’re happy to invite you to participate and submit papers to the AAAS Special Session at IEEE MLSP August 31 – September 3, 2025 in Istanbul.
The special session page: https://teflon.aalto.fi/mlsp-aaas-2025/
The main conference page: https://2025.ieeemlsp.org/
If you are interested in a shared task or data competition, check also the co-located NOCASA-2025: https://teflon.aalto.fi/nocasa-2025/
Important Dates
Submission DL: 10 May, 2025
Notification of acceptance: 24 June 2025
Camera-ready DL: 15 July 2025
All deadlines are 11:55PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Overview
Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) is a rapidly growing field that answers to the need of developing AI tools for self-practising second and foreign language skills. This is not limited to pronunciation assessment, but the AI tools can also provide more complex feedback about fluency, vocabulary and grammar of the recorded speech. ASA is also very relevant for early detection of various speech disorders and developing speech exercises that can be performed independent of time and place. The automatic assessment of non-standard speech has also other important applications, such as interfaces for children and elderly speakers who have limitations to use text input and output. The topic is timely, because the latest large speech models allow us now to develop automatic speech recognition (ASR) and classification methods for low-resourced data, such as atypical speech, where annotated training datasets are rarely available, expensive and difficult to produce and share. The goal of this workshop is to present the latest results in ASA and discuss the future work and collaboration between the community members.
Topics of Interest
In particular, we would like to invite students, researchers, and other experts and stakeholders to contribute papers and/or join the discussion on the following (and related) topics:
-Automatic speaking assessment (ASA) for L2 (second or foreign language) pronunciation
-ASA for spoken L2 proficiency
-ASA for speech sound disorders (SSD)
-Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for L2 learners
-ASR for children and young L2 learners
-Spoken L2 learning and speech therapy using games
-Automatic generation of verbal feedback for spoken L2 learners using LLMs
Submission Details
The submission format is similar (max 6 pages incl. ref) as in the main MLSP.
The papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be published in the MLSP proceedings. The links to the templates can be found here:
https://2025.ieeemlsp.org/en/PAPER-SUBMISSION-GUIDELINES.html
The submission will be through OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/MLSP/2025_AAAS
Please also consider volunteering to review 1-3 papers.
Organizers
Mikko Kurimo (chair), Aalto University, mikko.kurimo@aalto.fi
Giampiero Salvi, NTNU
Sofia Strömbergsson, Karolinska Institutet
Sari Ylinen, Tampere University
Minna Lehtonen, University of Turku
Tamas Grosz, Aalto University
Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Aalto University
Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University
Nhan Phan, Aalto University
This special session is supported by “Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)” https://teflon.aalto.fi/ NordForsk project nr. 103893.
Contact Information
For questions and comments, please email mikko.kurimo@aalto.fi