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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING<br><br>
SLSP 2016<br><br>
Pilsen, Czech Republic<br><br>
October 11-12, 2016<br><br>
Organized by:<br><br>
Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>
Department of Cybernetics<br>
University of West Bohemia<br><br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br><br>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2016/<br><br>
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PROGRAM<br><br><br>
Tuesday, October 11<br><br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Walter Daelemans: Advances in Statistical Approaches to Personality Prediction from Text - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break<br><br>
11:00 - 11:50<br><br>
Ikbel Hadj Ali and Zied Mnasri: Statistical Analysis of the Prosodic Parameters of a Spontaneous Arabic Speech Corpus for Speech Synthesis<br><br>
Daniil Kocharov, Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Aliya Mirzagitova and Pavel Skrelin: Combining Syntactic and Acoustic Features for Prosodic Boundary Detection in Russian<br><br>
11:50 - 13:20 Lunch<br><br>
13:20 - 14:10 Julia Hirschberg: Identifying Sentiment and Emotion in Low Resource Languages - Invited lecture<br><br>
14:10 - 14:25 Break and Group photo<br><br>
14:25 - 15:15<br><br>
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava and Manish Shrivastava: Articulatory Gesture Rich Representation Learning of Phonological Units in Low Resource Settings<br><br>
Dávid Sztahó and Klára Vicsi: Estimating the Severity of Parkinson’s Disease Using Voiced Ratio and Nonlinear Parameters<br><br>
15:15 - 15:30 Break<br><br>
15:30 - Poster presentations<br><br>
18:00 - 20:00 Social event<br><br><br>
Wednesday, October 12<br><br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Mari Ostendorf: Continuous-space Language Processing: Beyond Word Embeddings - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Antoni Hernández, Bernardino Casas, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Jaume Baixeries: Testing the Robustness of Laws of Polysemy and Brevity versus Frequency<br><br>
David Marecek: Delexicalized and Minimally Supervised Parsing on Universal Dependencies<br><br>
Ahmet Üstün and Burcu Can: Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation Using Neural Word Embeddings<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break<br><br>
11:50 - 13:05<br><br>
Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé and Damien Lolive: Optimal Feature Set and Minimal Training Size for Pronunciation Adaptation in TTS<br><br>
Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov and Yannick Estève: A New Perspective on Combining GMM and DNN Frameworks for Speaker Adaptation<br><br>
Matti Varjokallio, Mikko Kurimo and Sami Virpioja: Class n-Gram Models for Very Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Finnish and Estonian<br><br>
13:05 - 13:15 Closing<br><br>
13:15 - Lunch</body></html>