6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing – SLSP 2018

Co-organized by:

• NUMEDIART Institute – University of Mons
• LANGUAGE Institute – University of Mons
• Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London

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