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<br><strong>5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON </strong><strong>STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING</strong><br>
<br><strong>SLSP 2017</strong><br>
<br><strong>Le Mans, France</strong><br>
<br><strong>October 23-25, 2017</strong><br>
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Organized by:<br>
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Computer Science Lab (LIUM)<br>
University of Le Mans<br>
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Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br>
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http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2017/<br>
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<br><strong>AIMS:</strong><br>
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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 2017, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.<br>
<br><strong>VENUE:</strong><br>
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SLSP 2017 will take place in Le Mans, in the region Pays de la Loire, a city with well-preserved Gallo-Roman remnants. The venue will be:<br>
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Claude Chappe Informatics Institute<br>
University of Le Mans<br>
Avenue Laënnec<br>
72085 Le Mans Cedex 9<br>
<br><strong>SCOPE:</strong><br>
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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:<br>
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anaphora and coreference resolution<br>
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering<br>
computer-aided translation<br>
corpora and language resources<br>
data mining and semantic web<br>
information extraction<br>
information retrieval<br>
knowledge representation and ontologies<br>
lexicons and dictionaries<br>
machine translation<br>
multimodal technologies<br>
natural language understanding<br>
neural representation of speech and language<br>
opinion mining and sentiment analysis<br>
parsing<br>
part-of-speech tagging<br>
question-answering systems<br>
semantic role labelling<br>
speaker identification and verification<br>
speech and language generation<br>
speech recognition<br>
speech synthesis<br>
speech transcription<br>
spelling correction<br>
spoken dialogue systems<br>
term extraction<br>
text categorisation<br>
text summarisation<br>
user modeling<br>
<br><strong>STRUCTURE:</strong><br>
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SLSP 2017 will consist of:<br>
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invited talks<br>
peer-reviewed contributions<br>
posters<br>
<br><strong>INVITED SPEAKERS:</strong> (to be completed)<br>
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Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University), An Introduction to Neural Networks<br>
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Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia), Author Profiling in Social Media: The Impact of Emotions in Discourse Analysis<br>
<br><strong>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:</strong><br>
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Jon Barker (University of Sheffield, UK)<br>
Laurent Besacier (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, FR)<br>
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway, IE)<br>
Felix Burkhardt (Telekom Innovation Laboratories, DE)<br>
Xavier Carreras (Xerox Research Centre Europe, FR)<br>
Francisco Casacuberta (Technical University of Valencia, ES)<br>
Ciprian Chelba (Google, US)<br>
Eng Siong Chng (Nanyang Technological University, SG)<br>
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Elemental Cognition, US)<br>
Doug Downey (Northwestern University, US)<br>
Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)<br>
Julio Gonzalo (National University of Distance Education, ES)<br>
Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP)<br>
Gerhard Jäger (University of Tübingen, DE)<br>
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)<br>
Joseph Keshet (Bar-Ilan University, IL)<br>
Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, FI)<br>
Lun-Wei Ku (Academia Sinica, TW)<br>
Kong Aik Lee (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG)<br>
Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse University, US)<br>
Xunying Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)<br>
Suresh Manandhar (University of York, UK)<br>
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)<br>
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP)<br>
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)<br>
Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven, BE)<br>
Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi University of Technology, JP)<br>
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA)<br>
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE)<br>
Cécile Paris (CSIRO, AU)<br>
Fuchun Peng (AISense Inc., US)<br>
Pascal Perrier (Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR)<br>
Leon Rothkrantz (Delft University of Technology, NL)<br>
Horacio Saggion (Pompeu Fabra University, ES)<br>
Murat Saraçlar (Boğaziçi University, TR)<br>
Holger Schwenk (Facebook, FR)<br>
Brad Story (University of Arizona, US)<br>
Karin Verspoor (University of Melbourne, AU)<br>
Xiaojun Wan (Peking University, CN)<br>
Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK)<br>
Chuck Wooters (Semantic Machines, US)<br>
François Yvon (LIMSI-CNRS, FR)<br>
<br><strong>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</strong><br>
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Walid Aransa (Le Mans)<br>
Adrien Bardet (Le Mans)<br>
Abdessalam Bouchekif (Le Mans)<br>
Fethi Bougares (Le Mans)<br>
Nathalie Camelin (Le Mans)<br>
Yannick Estève (Le Mans, co-chair)<br>
Mercedes García Martínez (Le Mans)<br>
Sahar Ghannay (Le Mans)<br>
Anthony Larcher (Le Mans)<br>
Antoine Laurent (Le Mans)<br>
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)<br>
Salima Mdhaffar (Le Mans)<br>
Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada)<br>
Simon Petitrenaud (Le Mans)<br>
David Silva (London)<br>
Natalia Tomashenko (Le Mans)<br>
Kévin Vythelingum (Le Mans)<br>
<br><strong>SUBMISSIONS:</strong><br>
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Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).<br>
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Submissions have to be uploaded to:<br>
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2017<br>
<br><strong>PUBLICATIONS:</strong><br>
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A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.<br>
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A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2015 impact factor: 1.324) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.<br>
<br><strong>REGISTRATION:</strong><br>
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The registration form can be found at:<br>
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http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2017/Registration.php<br>
<br><strong>DEADLINES </strong>(all at 23:59 CET)<strong>:</strong><br>
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Paper submission: June 11, 2017<br>
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 11, 2017<br>
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 21, 2017<br>
Early registration: July 21, 2017<br>
Late registration: October 9, 2017<br>
Submission to the journal special issue: January 25, 2018<br>
<br><strong>QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:</strong><br>
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david.silva409@yahoo.com<br>
<br><strong>POSTAL ADDRESS:</strong><br>
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SLSP 2017<br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br>
Av. Catalunya, 35<br>
43002 Tarragona, Spain<br>
<br><strong>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:</strong><br>
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Université du Maine<br>
Universitat Rovira i Virgili</body></html>