AIMS:

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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:

SLSP 2013 will consist of:

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal), tutorial Learning Deep Representations

Christof Monz (Amsterdam), Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access

Tanja Schultz (Karlsruhe Tech), Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc., Cupertino)

Robert C. Berwick (MIT)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble)

Bill Byrne (Cambridge)

Jen-Tzung Chien (National Chiao Tung U, Hsinchu)

Kenneth Church (IBM Research)

Koby Crammer (Technion)

Renato De Mori (McGill & Avignon)

Thierry Dutoit (U Mons)

Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)

Katherine Forbes-Riley (Pittsburgh)

Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Tech)

Yuqing Gao (IBM Thomas J. Watson)

Ralp Grishman (New York U)

Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View)

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton)

Dietrich Klakow (Saarbrücken)

Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh)

Mikko Kurimo (Aalto)

Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

Philippe Langlais (Montréal)

Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Qun Liu (Dublin City)

Daniel Marcu (SDL)

Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOEP, Puebla)

Masaaki Nagata (NTT, Kyoto)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Doha)

Miles Osborne (Edinburgh)

Manny Rayner (Geneva)

Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento)

José A. Rodríguez Fonollosa (Technical U Catalonia, Barcelona)

Paolo Rosso (Technical U Valencia)

Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

Tomek Strzalkowski (Albany)

Gökhan Tür (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha)

Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Min Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Yunxin Zhao (U Missouri, Columbia)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

University of Wolverhampton