[IRIS] SLSP 2020 & 2021: 1st call for papers

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8th-9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND
SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP 2020 & 2021

Cardiff, United Kingdom

November 22-26, 2021

Co-organized by:

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Cardiff University

Data Innovation Research Institute

Cardiff University

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA

Brussels/London

https://irdta.eu/slsp2020-2021/

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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 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.

Previous events took place in Tarragona, Grenoble, Budapest,
Pilsen, Le Mans, Mons, and Ljubljana.

VENUE:

SLSP 2020 & 2021 will take place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales
and its political, commercial and cultural centre. The venue will
be:

Council Chamber

Glamorgan Building

King Edward VII Ave

Cathays Park

Cardiff

CF10 3WT

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/visit/accessibility/cathays-park-campus/glamorgan-building

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

Audio event detection

Authorship identification, plagiarism, and spam filtering

Biases, explainability and interpretability in language and
speech processing

Corpora and resources for speech and language

Data mining, term extraction, and semantic web

Dialogue systems and spoken language understanding

Information retrieval and information extraction

Knowledge representation and ontologies

Lexicons and dictionaries

Machine translation and computer-aided translation

Multimodal technologies

Natural language understanding and generation

Neural representation of speech and language

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis

Part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and semantic role labelling

Question-answering systems for speech and text

Speaker identification and verification

Speech recognition and synthesis

Spelling correction

Text categorization and summarization

Text normalization and inverted text normalization

Text-to-speech

User modeling

Wake word detection

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2020 & 2021 will consist of:

invited lectures

peer-reviewed contributions

posters

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

John H.L. Hansen (University of Texas, Dallas), Challenges and
Advancements in Speaker Diarization & Recognition for
Naturalistic Data Streams

Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), Automatic Discovery of Phoneme Inventories for
Speech Technology in Under-resourced Languages

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub (Jordan University of Science and Technology,
JO)

Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, US)

Jon Barker (University of Sheffield, UK)

Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, FR)

Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR)

Felix Burkhardt (audEERING, DE)

Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, IT)

Bill Campbell (Amazon, US)

Angel Chang (Simon Fraser University, CA)

Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)

Marcello Federico (Amazon AI, US)

Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)

Ondřej Glembek (Brno University of Technology, CZ)

Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK)

Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)

Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ)

Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, US)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)

Seiichi Nakagawa (Chubu University, JP)

Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)

Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)

Diana Santos (University of Oslo, NO)

Irena Spasić (Cardiff University, UK)

Tomek Strzalkowski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)

Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)

K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US)

Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica, TW)

Andy Way (Dublin City University, IE)

Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina Charlotte, US)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff)

Sara Morales (Brussels)

Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)

David Silva (London, co-chair)

Irena Spasić (Cardiff, co-chair)

SUBMISSIONS:

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).

Upload submissions to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp20202021

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI
series will be available by the time of the conference.

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.

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

https://irdta.eu/slsp2020-2021/registration/

DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):

Paper submission: July 9, 2021

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 13, 2021

Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August
23, 2021

Early registration: August 23, 2021

Late registration: November 8, 2021

Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2022

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david (at) irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University /
Prifysgol Caerdydd

Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University /
Prifysgol Caerdydd

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA,
Brussels/London
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