11-12 Oct 2016
Pilsen, Czech Republic
************************************************************************** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2016 Pilsen, Czech Republic October 11-12, 2016 Organized by: Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Cybernetics University of West Bohemia Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2016/ ************************************************************************** PROGRAM Tuesday, October 11 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Walter Daelemans: Advances in Statistical Approaches to Personality Prediction from Text - Invited lecture 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:50 Ikbel Hadj Ali and Zied Mnasri: Statistical Analysis of the Prosodic Parameters of a Spontaneous Arabic Speech Corpus for Speech Synthesis Daniil Kocharov, Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Aliya Mirzagitova and Pavel Skrelin: Combining Syntactic and Acoustic Features for Prosodic Boundary Detection in Russian 11:50 - 13:20 Lunch 13:20 - 14:10 Julia Hirschberg: Identifying Sentiment and Emotion in Low Resource Languages - Invited lecture 14:10 - 14:25 Break and Group photo 14:25 - 15:15 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava and Manish Shrivastava: Articulatory Gesture Rich Representation Learning of Phonological Units in Low Resource Settings Dávid Sztahó and Klára Vicsi: Estimating the Severity of Parkinson?s Disease Using Voiced Ratio and Nonlinear Parameters 15:15 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - Poster presentations 18:00 - 20:00 Social event Wednesday, October 12 09:00 - 09:50 Mari Ostendorf: Continuous-space Language Processing: Beyond Word Embeddings - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break 10:20 - 11:35 Antoni Hernández, Bernardino Casas, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Jaume Baixeries: Testing the Robustness of Laws of Polysemy and Brevity versus Frequency David Marecek: Delexicalized and Minimally Supervised Parsing on Universal Dependencies Ahmet Üstün and Burcu Can: Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation Using Neural Word Embeddings 11:35 - 11:50 Break 11:50 - 13:05 Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé and Damien Lolive: Optimal Feature Set and Minimal Training Size for Pronunciation Adaptation in TTS Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov and Yannick Estève: A New Perspective on Combining GMM and DNN Frameworks for Speaker Adaptation Matti Varjokallio, Mikko Kurimo and Sami Virpioja: Class n-Gram Models for Very Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Finnish and Estonian 13:05 - 13:15 Closing 13:15 - Lunch -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam