*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************************************ 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2013 Tarragona, Spain July 29-31, 2013 http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2013/ ************************************************************************************************ PROGRAMME Monday, July 29: 8:00 - 8:50 Registration 8:50 - 9:00 Opening 9:00 - 9:50 Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward (I) - Invited Tutorial 9:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, and Luz Rello: Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification Borbála Siklósi, Attila Novák, and Gábor Prószéky: Context-aware Correction of Spelling Errors in Hungarian Medical Documents Attia Nehar, Djelloul Ziadi, and Hadda Cherroun: Rational Kernels for Arabic Text Classification 11:35 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Laurent Besacier, and Corneliu Burileanu: Statistical Error Correction Methods for Domain-Specific ASR Systems Myung-Jae Kim, Il-Ho Yang, and Ha-Jin Yu: Histogram Equalization Using Centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of Background Speakers' Utterances for Speaker Identification Layla El Asri, Romain Laroche, and Olivier Pietquin: Reward Shaping for Statistical Optimisation of Dialogue Management 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:20 Samuel W. K. Chan and Mickey M. C. Chong: Predicting Part-of-Speech Tags and Morpho-Syntactic Relations using Similarity-based Technique Nobal Niraula, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Ștefănescu, and Vasile Rus: Experiments with Semantic Similarity Measures based on LDA and LSA 15:20 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:20 Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward (II) - Invited Tutorial Tuesday, July 30: 9:00 - 9:50 Christof Monz: Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Akira Hayashi, Kazunori Iwata, and Nobuo Suematsu: Finding the Most Likely Upper Level State Sequence for Hierarchical HMMs Jordan Rodu, Dean P. Foster, Weichen Wu, and Lyle H. Ungar: Using Regression for Spectral Estimation of HMMs Amit Kirschenbaum: Unsupervised Segmentation for Different Types of Morphological Processes Using Multiple Sequence Alignment 11:35 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Abdessalam Bouchekif, Géraldine Damnati, and Delphine Charlet: Complementarity of Lexical Cohesion and Speaker Role Information for Story Segmentation of French TV Broadcast News Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki, and Dekai Wu: Iterative Rule Segmentation under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction Ngoc Thang Vu, Heike Adel, and Tanja Schultz: An Investigation of Code-Switching Attitude Dependent Language Modeling 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:20 Hans Moen and Erwin Marsi: Cross-Lingual Random Indexing for Information Retrieval Javad Nouri, Lidia Pivovarova, and Roman Yangarber: MDL-based Models for Transliteration Generation 15:20 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:20 Sanja Štajner and Richard Evans: Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification? Luis Trindade, Hui Wang, William Blackburn, and Niall Rooney: Factored Semantic Sequence Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification 17:30 Visit to the City Wednesday, July 31: 9:00 - 9:50 Tanja Schultz: Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation - Invited Lecture 9:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Fethi Bougares, Mickael Rouvier, Nathalie Camelin, Paul Deléglise, and Yannick Estève: An Investigation of Single-pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding Marwa Graja, Maher Jaoua, and Lamia Hadrich Belguith: Discriminative Framework for Spoken Tunisian Dialect Understanding Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre, and Laurent Besacier: Generalization of Discriminative Approaches for Speech Language Understanding in a Multilingual Context 11:35 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Felix Stahlberg, Tim Schlippe, Stephan Vogel, and Tanja Schultz: Pronunciation Extraction from Phoneme Sequences Through Cross-Lingual Word-to-Phoneme Alignment Stanisław Kacprzak and Mariusz Ziółko: Speech/Music Discrimination via Energy Density Analysis Karteek Addanki and Dekai Wu: Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification in Hip Hop Lyrics using Hidden Markov Models 13:00 Closing