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/

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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