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1st International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2013,
Tarragona, Spain ![[Valid RSS]](images/valid-rss-rogers.jpg "[Valid RSS]") |
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1st International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2013,
Tarragona, Spain |
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| Monday, July 29 | |
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Registration |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Opening |
| 9:00 - 9:50 Tanja Schultz | Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward (I) - Invited Tutorial |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 - 11:35 Yoshua Bengio | 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 Stefan Bott | 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 Laurent Besacier | 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 Tanja Schultz | Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward (II) - Invited Tutorial |
| Tuesday, July 30 | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 Tim Schlippe | Christof Monz: Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access - Invited Lecture |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 - 11:35 Vasile Rus | 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 Yannick Esteve | 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 Dekai Wu | 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 Javad Nouri | 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 Christof Monz | 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 Mariusz Ziólko | 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 Ha-Jin Yu | 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 |