Co-organised by

• NUMEDIART Institute - University of Mons
  
• LANGUAGE Institute - University of Mons
• Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London

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 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.

Venue

SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be:

University of Mons
31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons
Belgium

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 2018 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Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research.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 (all included) 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2018

Registration

The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2018/Registration.php