SLSP 2014 Program

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat

SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

A pdf version of the program available as a banner (1.46M)
or a leaflet (652k - to be printed on both sides, open to the left).

For presentations (except the invited talks), we recommend to allocate 23 minutes for the slide presentation and 2 minutes for questions.

Tuesday, October 14
9:00 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 10:15	Opening
10:15 - 11:05 Laurent Besacier	Roger K. Moore: Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? - Invited Lecture
11:05 - 11:35	Coffee Break
11:35 - 12:50 Uli Fahrenberg	Georgios Kontonatsios, Claudiu Mihăilă, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Paul Thompson, and Sophia Ananiadou: A Hybrid Approach to Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries of Medical Terms from Parallel Corpora
	Wei Liu, Zhipeng Chang, and William J. Teahan: Experiments with a PPM Compression-based Method for English-Chinese Bilingual Sentence Alignment
	Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu: BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric
12:50 - 14:20	Lunch
14:20 - 15:35 Dekai Wu	Mathias Verbeke, Vincent Van Asch, Walter Daelemans, and Luc De Raedt: Lazy and Eager Relational Learning using Graph-Kernels
	Mohamed Amine Boukhaled, and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Probabilistic Anomaly Detection Method for Authorship Verification
	Uli Fahrenberg, Fabrizio Biondi, Kevin Corre, Cyrille Jegourel, Simon Kongshj, and Axel Legay: Measuring Global Similarity between Texts
16:00 - 18:00	Touristic visit

Wednesday, October 15
9:00 - 9:50 Roger K. Moore	Claire Gardent: Syntax and Data-to-Text Generation - Invited Lecture
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 11:20 Gábor Kiss	Borbála Siklósi and Attila Novák: Identifying and Clustering Relevant Terms in Clinical Records Using Unsupervised Methods
	Amine Abdaoui, Jérôme Azé, Sandra Bringay, Natalia Grabar, and Pascal Poncelet: Predicting Medical Roles in Online Health Fora
	Ekaterina Pronoza, Elena Yagunova, and Svetlana Volskaya: Corpus-based Information Extraction and Opinion Mining for the Restaurant Recommendation System
11:20 - 11:50	Coffee Break and Group Photo
11:50 - 13:05 Benjamin Lecouteux	Raúl Ernesto Gutierrez de Piñerez Reyes and Juan Francisco Díaz-Frías: Informal Mathematical Discourse Parsing with Conditional Random Fields
	Waad Ben Kheder, Driss Matrouf, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Jean-François Bonastre and Moez Ajili: Robust Speaker Recognition Using MAP Estimation of Additive Noise in i-vectors Space
	Arseniy Gorin and Denis Jouvet: Structured GMM Based on Unsupervised Clustering for Recognizing Adult and Child Speech
13:05 - 14:35	Lunch
14:35 - 16:35	Visit to the Domus apartment

Thursday, October 16
9:00 - 9:50 Attila Novák	Martti Vainio: Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis - Invited Lecture
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 11:20 Martti Vainio	Gábor Kiss and Klára Vicsi: Physiological and Cognitive Status Monitoring on the Base of Acoustic-phonetic Speech Parameters
	Barbara Schuppler, Sebastian Grill, André Menrath, and Juan A. Morales-Cordovilla: Automatic Phonetic Transcription in Two Steps: Forced Alignment and Burst Detection
	Mian Du, Matthew Pierce, Lidia Pivovarova, and Roman Yangarber: Supervised Classification using Balanced Training
11:20 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:05 Klára Vicsi	Márius Šajgalík, Michal Barla, and Mária Bieliková: Exploring Multidimensional Continuous Feature Space to Extract Relevant Words
	Zhemin Zhu, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Peter Apers: Linear Co-occurrence Rate Networks (L-CRNs) for Sequence Labeling
	Théodore Bluche, Hermann Ney, and Christopher Kermorvant: Handwriting Recognition with Deep and Recurrent Neural Networks
13:05 - 13:15	Closing