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6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING


SLSP 2018


Mons, Belgium


October 15-16, 2018


Co-organized by:


NUMEDIART Institute

University of Mons


LANGUAGE Institute

University of Mons


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


http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/


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PROGRAM


Monday, October 15


09:00 - 09:30    Registration


09:30 - 09:40    Opening


09:40 - 10:30    Thomas Hain. Crossing Domains in Automatic Speech Recognition - Invited lecture


10:30 - 11:00    Break


11:00 - 12:15


Amal Houidhek, Vincent Colotte, Zied Mnasri and Denis Jouvet. DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Arabic: Modelling and Evaluation


Antoine Perquin, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Laurent Amsaleg. Phone-level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis


Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Pascale Sébillot. Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept


12:15 - 13:45    Lunch


13:45 - 14:35    Simon King. Does 'End-to-End' Speech Synthesis Make any Sense? - Invited lecture


14:35 - 14:50    Break


14:50 - 16:05


George Christodoulides. Forced Alignment of the Phonologie du Français Contemporain Corpus


Ruei Hung Alex Lee and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang. A Syllable Structure Approach to Spoken Language Recognition


Gueorgui Pironkov, Sean Wood, Stéphane Dupont and Thierry Dutoit. Investigating a Hybrid Learning Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition


16:05 - 16:20    Break


16:20 - 17:30    Poster session I


17:30 - 19:30    Touristic visit


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Tuesday, October 16


09:00 - 09:50    Isabel Trancoso. Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications - Invited lecture


09:50 - 10:20    Break


10:20 - 11:35


Jan Vanek, Josef Michalek, Jan Zelinka and Josef Psutka. A Comparison of Adaptation Techniques and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures


Andris Varavs and Askars Salimbajevs. Restoring Punctuation and Capitalization Using Transformer Models


David Awad, Caroline Sabty, Mohamed Elmahdy and Slim Abdennadher. Arabic Name Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning


11:35 - 11:50    Break and Group photo


11:50 - 13:05


Pratik Doshi and Wlodek Zadrozny. Movie Genre Detection Using Topological Data Analysis and Simple Discourse Features


Daniel Grießhaber, Thang Vu and Johannes Maucher. Low-resource Text Classification Using Domain-adversarial Learning


Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikolaos Tsourakis and Hervé Spechbach. Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator


13:05 -    14:35    Lunch


14:35 - 15:50


Laura García-Sardiña, Manex Serras and Arantza Del Pozo. Knowledge Transfer for Active Learning in Textual Anonymisation


Fernando Gomes and Juan Manuel Adán-Coello. Studying the Effects of Text Preprocessing and Ensemble Methods on Sentiment Analysis of Brazilian Portuguese Tweets


Daniel Lichtblau and Catalin Stoean. Text Documents Encoding through Images for Authorship Attribution


15:50 - 16:05    Break


16:05 - 17:05    Poster session II


17:05 - 17:15    Closing
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