27.3028, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Czech Republic

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Subject: 27.3028, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Czech Republic

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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:29:15
From: Carlos Martin-Vide [carlos.martin at urv.cat]
Subject: 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing

 
Full Title: 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing 
Short Title: SLSP 2016 

Date: 11-Oct-2016 - 13-Oct-2016
Location: Pilsen, Bohemia, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Lilica Voicu
Meeting Email: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat
Web Site: http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 04-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Aims:
 
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent
research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use
in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting
contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known
conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is
a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will
hopefully happen. In SLSP 2016, significant room will be reserved to young
scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on
methodology.
 
Venue:

SLSP 2016 will take place in Pilsen, nominated one of the two European
Capitals of Culture in 2015. The venue will be the the NTIS research centre at
the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia.

Scope:
 
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical
models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing.
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited
to:
 
- Anaphora and coreference resolution
- Authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
- Computer-aided translation
- Corpora and language resources
- Data mining and semantic web
- Information extraction
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge representation and ontologies
- Lexicons and dictionaries
- Machine translation
- Multimodal technologies
- Natural language understanding
- Neural representation of speech and language
- Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
- Parsing
- Part-of-speech tagging
- Question-answering systems
- Semantic role labeling
- Speaker identification and verification
- Speech and language generation
- Speech recognition
- Speech synthesis
- Speech transcription
- Spelling correction
- Spoken dialogue systems
- Term extraction
- Text categorisation
- Text summarisation
- User modeling
 
SLSP 2016 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
Invited Speakers:

Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Advances in Statistical Approaches
to Personality Prediction from Text
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), tba
Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington), tba

Organized by:
 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Cybernetics
University of West Bohemia
 
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University


Call for Papers:

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the
conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

Topics:

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on the employment of
statistical models (including machine learning) in language and speech
processing are invited. Posters do not need to show final research results.
Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

Key Dates:

Poster submission deadline: September 4, 2016
Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 11, 2016

Submission:

Please submit a .pdf abstract through:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2016

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed
500 words.

Presentation:

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral
presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole
conference for discussion.

Publication:

Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2016.
However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal
special issue in Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2014 impact
factor: 1.753).

Registration:

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by
September 27, 2016. The registration fare is reduced: 240 Euro. It gives the
same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the
proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in
addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.




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