IberSPEECH 2018: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Dear Colleagues,

Following previous editions, IberSPEECH’2018 will be held in Barcelona, from 21 to 23 November 2018. The IberSPEECH event—the fourth of its kind using this name—brings together the X Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the V Iberian SLTech Workshop events.  The conference provides a platform for scientific and industrial discussion and exchange around Iberian languages, with the following main topics of interests:

1. Speech technology and applications
2. Human speech production, perception, and communication
3. Natural language processing and applications
4. Speech, language and multimodality
5. Resources, standardization, and evaluation

The main goal of this Special Issue is to present the latest advances in research and novel applications of speech and language processing, paying special attention to those focused on Iberian languages. We invite researchers interested in these fields to contribute to this issue, which cover all fields of IberSPEECH2018 http://iberspeech2018.talp.cat/index.php/call-for-papers/. Papers submitted from the conference will enjoy a plenary 10% discount. (The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in Applied Sciences is 1260 CHF (Swiss Francs) for submissions before the end of December 2018 and 1350 CHF (Swiss Francs) after 1st January 2019)

For those papers selected from the conference, authors are asked to fulfill what is indicated in the instructions about “Preprints and Conference Papers” of the journal: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions#preprints

Prof. Dr. Francesc Alías
Dr. Jordi Luque
Dr. Antonio Bonafonte
Dr. António Teixeira
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.