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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