The conference building:

Important dates

May 17, 2016 (23:59 CET) May 24, 2016 (23:59 CET)	Paper submission Extended deadline
June 21, 2016 June 25, 2016	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
July 4, 2016	Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings
July 4, 2016	Early registration
September 4, 2016	Poster submission
September 11, 2016	Notification of poster acceptance or rejection
September 27, 2016	Late registration (including for posters)
February 10, 2017	Submission to the journal special issue

Publications

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2014 impact factor: 1.753) 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.

Links

Academic website for conferences and journals information

Acknowledgements

University of West Bohemia



La universitat pública de Tarragona

Organised by

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia
• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University

Aims

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 2016, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.

Venue

SLSP 2016 will take place in Pilsen, nominated one of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2015. The venue will be the the NTIS research centre at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia.

Scope

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:

• anaphora and coreference resolution
• authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
• computer-aided translation
• corpora and language resources
• data mining and semantic web
• information extraction
• information retrieval
• knowledge representation and ontologies
• lexicons and dictionaries
• machine translation
• multimodal technologies
• natural language understanding
• neural representation of speech and language
• opinion mining and sentiment analysis
• parsing
• part-of-speech tagging
• question-answering systems
• semantic role labelling
• speaker identification and verification
• speech and language generation
• speech recognition
• speech synthesis
• speech transcription
• spelling correction
• spoken dialogue systems
• term extraction
• text categorisation
• text summarisation
• user modeling

Structure of the conference

SLSP 2016 will consist of

• invited talks
• peer-reviewed contributions
• posters

Submission

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, 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). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2016.

Registration

We kindly ask all the participants to register, including invited persons and members of the organising committee.