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6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING<br><br>
SLSP 2018<br><br>
Mons, Belgium<br><br>
October 15-16, 2018<br><br>
Co-organized by:<br><br>
NUMEDIART Institute<br>
University of Mons<br><br>
LANGUAGE Institute<br>
University of Mons<br><br>
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London<br><br>
http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/<br><br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Monday, October 15<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Thomas Hain. Crossing Domains in Automatic Speech Recognition - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Break<br><br>
11:00 - 12:15<br><br>
Amal Houidhek, Vincent Colotte, Zied Mnasri and Denis Jouvet. DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Arabic: Modelling and Evaluation<br><br>
Antoine Perquin, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Laurent Amsaleg. Phone-level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis<br><br>
Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Pascale Sébillot. Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept<br><br>
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch<br><br>
13:45 - 14:35 Simon King. Does 'End-to-End' Speech Synthesis Make any Sense? - Invited lecture<br><br>
14:35 - 14:50 Break<br><br>
14:50 - 16:05<br><br>
George Christodoulides. Forced Alignment of the Phonologie du Français Contemporain Corpus<br><br>
Ruei Hung Alex Lee and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang. A Syllable Structure Approach to Spoken Language Recognition<br><br>
Gueorgui Pironkov, Sean Wood, Stéphane Dupont and Thierry Dutoit. Investigating a Hybrid Learning Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition<br><br>
16:05 - 16:20 Break<br><br>
16:20 - 17:30 Poster session I<br><br>
17:30 - 19:30 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Tuesday, October 16<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Isabel Trancoso. Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Jan Vanek, Josef Michalek, Jan Zelinka and Josef Psutka. A Comparison of Adaptation Techniques and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures<br><br>
Andris Varavs and Askars Salimbajevs. Restoring Punctuation and Capitalization Using Transformer Models<br><br>
David Awad, Caroline Sabty, Mohamed Elmahdy and Slim Abdennadher. Arabic Name Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break and Group photo<br><br>
11:50 - 13:05<br><br>
Pratik Doshi and Wlodek Zadrozny. Movie Genre Detection Using Topological Data Analysis and Simple Discourse Features<br><br>
Daniel Grießhaber, Thang Vu and Johannes Maucher. Low-resource Text Classification Using Domain-adversarial Learning<br><br>
Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikolaos Tsourakis and Hervé Spechbach. Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator<br><br>
13:05 - 14:35 Lunch<br><br>
14:35 - 15:50<br><br>
Laura García-Sardiña, Manex Serras and Arantza Del Pozo. Knowledge Transfer for Active Learning in Textual Anonymisation<br><br>
Fernando Gomes and Juan Manuel Adán-Coello. Studying the Effects of Text Preprocessing and Ensemble Methods on Sentiment Analysis of Brazilian Portuguese Tweets<br><br>
Daniel Lichtblau and Catalin Stoean. Text Documents Encoding through Images for Authorship Attribution<br><br>
15:50 - 16:05 Break<br><br>
16:05 - 17:05 Poster session II<br><br>
17:05 - 17:15 Closing</body></html>