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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>**********************************************************************************</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>8<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SLSP 2020 & 2021</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Cardiff, United Kingdom</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>November 22-26, 2021</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Co-organized by:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>School of Computer Science and Informatics</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Cardiff University</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Data Innovation Research Institute</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Brussels/London</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://irdta.eu/slsp2020-2021/</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0 0 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>**********************************************************************************</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>AIMS:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>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 conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between the two domains will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2020 & 2021, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Previous events took place in Tarragona, Grenoble, Budapest, Pilsen, Le Mans, Mons, and Ljubljana.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>VENUE:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SLSP 2020 & 2021 will take place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales and its political, commercial and cultural centre. The venue will be:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Council Chamber</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Glamorgan Building</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>King Edward VII Ave</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Cathays Park</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Cardiff</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>CF10 3WT</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/visit/accessibility/cathays-park-campus/glamorgan-building</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SCOPE:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>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:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Anaphora and coreference resolution</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Audio event detection</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Authorship identification, plagiarism, and spam filtering</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Biases, explainability and interpretability in language and speech processing</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Corpora and resources for speech and language</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Data mining, term extraction, and semantic web</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Dialogue systems and spoken language understanding</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Information retrieval and information extraction</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Knowledge representation and ontologies</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Lexicons and dictionaries</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Machine translation and computer-aided translation</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Multimodal technologies</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Natural language understanding and generation</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Neural representation of speech and language</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Opinion mining and sentiment analysis</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and semantic role labelling</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Question-answering systems for speech and text</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Speaker identification and verification</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Speech recognition and synthesis</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Spelling correction</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Text categorization and summarization</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Text normalization and inverted text normalization</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Text-to-speech</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>User modeling</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Wake word detection</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>STRUCTURE:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SLSP 2020 & 2021 will consist of:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>invited lectures</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>peer-reviewed contributions</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>posters</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>John H.L. Hansen (University of Texas, Dallas), Challenges and Advancements in Speaker Diarization & Recognition for Naturalistic Data Streams</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Automatic Discovery of Phoneme Inventories for Speech Technology in Under-resourced Languages</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub (Jordan University of Science and Technology, JO)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Jon Barker (University of Sheffield, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, FR)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Felix Burkhardt (audEERING, DE)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, IT)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Bill Campbell (Amazon, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Angel Chang (Simon Fraser University, CA)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Marcello Federico (Amazon AI, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ondřej Glembek (Brno University of Technology, CZ)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Seiichi Nakagawa (Chubu University, JP)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Diana Santos (University of Oslo, NO)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Irena Spasić (Cardiff University, UK)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Tomek Strzalkowski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica, TW)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Andy Way (Dublin City University, IE)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina Charlotte, US)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Sara Morales (Brussels)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>David Silva (London, co-chair)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Irena Spasić (Cardiff, co-chair)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SUBMISSIONS:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>-</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>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).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Upload submissions to:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp20202021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>PUBLICATIONS:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>A special issue of a major journal 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.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>REGISTRATION:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>The registration form can be found at:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://irdta.eu/slsp2020-2021/registration/</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>DEADLINES </span></span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>(all at 23:59 CET)<strong>:</strong></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Paper submission: July 9, 2021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 13, 2021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August 23, 2021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Early registration: August 23, 2021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Late registration: November 8, 2021</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2022</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>david (at) irdta.eu</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University /</span></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Prifysgol Caerdydd</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University /</span></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Prifysgol Caerdydd</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 10px;"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London</span></span></span></span></p>
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