SLSP 2013 - 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote 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 including papers in any of these fields, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between areas and people will hopefully happen. SLSP will reserve significant space for young scholars at the beginning of their careers.
Venue
SLSP 2013 will take place in Tarragona, 100 km. to the south of Barcelona.
Scope
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:
phonology, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
text-to-speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
Structure of the Conference
SLSP 2013 will consist of
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI series. Submissions are to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp20....
Publications
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI topical subseries of the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions will be by invitation.
Organised by
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University
Research Institute for Information and Language Processing (RIILP) from University of Wolverhampton
Important dates
March 5, 2013
paper submission (closing at 23:59h, CET)
April 9, 2013 notification of paper acceptance or rejection
April 17, 2013 final version of the paper for the LNAI proceedings
April 24, 2013 early registration
July 19, 2013 late registration
October 31, 2013 submission to the post-conference journal special issue
Registration
The registration form can be found here.
We kindly ask all the participants to register, including invited persons and members of the organising committee.