27.2679, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Japan

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2679. Mon Jun 20 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2679, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Japan

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhite at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:32:54
From: Nicholas Ruiz [nruiz at interactions.com]
Subject: Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing

 
Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: SCNLP 

Date: 11-Dec-2016 - 11-Dec-2016 
Location: Osaka, Japan 
Contact: Nicholas Ruiz 
Contact Email: scnlp at interactions.com 
Meeting URL: http://speechnlp.github.io/2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

SCNLP's goal is to unite the ASR and NLP communities to discuss new frameworks
for exploiting the rich information present in the speech signal to improve
the capabilities of natural language processing applications such as
conversational agents, question-answering systems, machine translation, and
search. In addition to acoustic environment information, the audio signal may
contain speaker-specific features which may identify the emotional state,
demographic information, and the presence of uncertainty in the speaker’s
utterance: features which may influence the output of the NLP component. SCNLP
encourages novel contributions that revisit the conventional NLP problems with
a focus on incorporating the richness of spoken language, as well as
contributions that promote cross-fertilization between statistical methods for
ASR and NLP.
 

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of both long and short papers on original and
unpublished work. Similar to the main conference, submissions are limited to 8
pages. All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally,
selected submissions will be presented orally.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Joint ASR/NLP modeling using deep learning
Spoken query reformulation for Question/Answering systems
ASR error modeling and evaluation for NLP
Emotive Speech Synthesis for Spoken dialogue systems
Word-sense disambiguation for speech
Information extraction from speech transcripts
Domain adaptation (Adapting textual NLP training data to speech-centric tasks)
Rich speech transcription
Disfluency and uncertainty detection
NLP with ASR lattices/confusion networks
Speech segmentation for NLP
Discourse and Speech Processing

Important Dates

June 2016: First call for workshop papers
September 25 2016: Workshop paper due
October 16 2016: Notification of acceptance
October 30 2016: Camera-ready due
November 30, 2016: Official proceedings publication date
December 11, 2016: Workshop date





------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

This year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $79,000. This money 
will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our 
Student Editors for the coming year.

Don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2016 site!

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

For all information on donating, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, PayPal or wire transfer, please visit:
http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Indiana University and
as such can receive donations through Indiana University Foundation. We
also collect donations via eLinguistics Foundation, a registered 501(c)
Non Profit organization with the federal tax number 45-4211155. Either
way, the donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your
state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the
IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that
they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization.
Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department
and sending us a form that the Indiana University Foundation fills in
and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative
procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without
costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if
your company operates such a program.


Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2679	
----------------------------------------------------------