23.2616, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 23.2616, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:12:28
From: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson [jhasegaw at illinois.edu]
Subject: Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing

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Full Title: Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing 
Short Title: MLSLP 

Date: 14-Sep-2012 - 14-Sep-2012
Location: Portland, OR, USA 
Contact Person: Joseph Keshet
Meeting Email: jkeshet at ttic.edu
Web Site: http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2012/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2012 

Meeting Description:

The goal of the symposium is to foster communication and collaboration between researchers in these synergistic areas, taking advantage of the nearby location of Interspeech 2012. MLSLP'12 is the second annual meeting of the Machine Learning Special Interest Group (SIGML) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).  

Invited Speakers:

Shai Ben-David, Hal Daume III, Inderjit Dhillon, Mark Gales, Brian Roark, Dirk van Compernolle, others TBA 

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit a four-page paper on any topic in the area of Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing including:

- Learned Representations and Learned Metrics for Speech and Language Processing
- Sparse Representations for Speech and Language Processing
- Constrained and Regularized Optimization Methods for Speech and Language Processing
- Novel Optimality Criteria for Speech and Language Processing Applications
- Active Learning, Crowd-Sourcing, and Artificial Intelligence
- Semi-Supervised Learning, Transfer Learning, and Indirect Supervision
- Generalization Bounds and Consistency Proofs for Speech and Language Processing

Papers should be submitted in four-page, two-column professional conference format. Submissions will be accepted at the conference website, http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2012/, beginning April 16, 2012.






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