*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2015 Budapest, Hungary November 24-26, 2015 Organised by: Laboratory of Speech Acoustics Department of Telecommunications and Telematics Budapest University of Technology and Economics http://alpha.tmit.bme.hu/speech/ Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Tuesday, November 24 08:15 - 08:45 Registration 08:45 - 09:00 Opening 09:00 - 09:50 Xavier Carreras: Low-rank Matrix Learning for Compositional Objects, Strings and Trees - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Khan Baykaner, Mark Huckvale, Iya Whiteley, Oleg Ryumin and Svetlana Andreeva: The Prediction of Fatigue Using Speech as a Biosignal Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh and Milos Cernak: Residual-based Excitation with Continuous F0 Modeling in HMM-based Speech Synthesis Marc Evrard, Albert Rilliard and Christophe d'Alessandro: Evaluation of the Impact of Corpus Phonetic Alignment on the HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Quality 11:35 - 11:50 Break 11:50 - 12:40 Sahar Ghannay, Yannick Estève, Nathalie Camelin, Camille Dutrey, Fabian Santiago and Martine Adda-Decker: Combining Continuous Word Representation and Prosodic Features for ASR Error Prediction Mark Huckvale and Aimee Webb: A Comparison of Human and Machine Estimation of Speaker Age 12:40 - 14:10 Lunch 14:10 - 15:25 Luis Chiruzzo and Dina Wonsever: Supertagging for a Statistical HPSG Parser for Spanish Mathilde Dargnat, Katarina Bartkova and Denis Jouvet: Discourse Particles in French: Prosodic Parameters Extraction and Analysis Julia Efremova, Alejandro Montes García, Jianpeng Zhang and Toon Calders: Effects of Evolutionary Linguistics in Text Classification 15:25 - 15:40 Break 15:40 - 16:55 Fatemeh Ghiyafeh Davoodi and Yllias Chali: Semi-Extractive Multi-Document Summarization via Submodular Functions Pavel Král, Ladislav Lenc and Christophe Cerisara: Semantic Features for Dialogue Act Recognition André Mansikkaniemi and Mikko Kurimo: Unsupervised and User Feedback Based Lexicon Adaptation for Foreign Names and Acronyms Wednesday, November 25 09:00 - 09:50 Sebastian Riedel: Towards Two-way Interaction with Reading Machines - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Denis Jouvet and Katarina Bartkova: Acoustical Frame Rate and Pronunciation Variant Statistics Tatiana Kachkovskaia: The Influence of Boundary Depth on Phrase-final Lengthening in Russian Ferenc Kazinczi, Krisztina Mészáros and Klára Vicsi: Automatic Detection of Voice Disorders 11:35 - 11:50 Break and Group Photo 11:50 - 12:40 Rasa Lileikyte, Lori Lamel and Jean-Luc Gauvain: Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition for Lithuanian Erfan Loweimi, Mortaza Doulaty, Jon Barker and Thomas Hain: Long-term Statistical Feature Extraction from Speech Signal and its Application in Emotion Recognition 12:40 - 14:10 Lunch 14:10 - 15:25 Lorenzo Ferrone, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto and Xavier Carreras: Decoding Distributed Tree Structures Luiza Orosanu and Denis Jouvet: Combining Lexical and Prosodic Features for Automatic Detection of Sentence Modality in French Konstantinos Pechlivanis and Stasinos Konstantopoulos: Corpus Based Methods for Learning Models of Metaphor in Modern Greek 15:25 - 15:40 Break 15:40 - 16:30 Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona and Christophe Cerisara: Weakly Supervised Discriminative Training of Linear Models for Natural Language Processing Daniel Soutner and Ludek Müller: On Continuous Space Word Representations as Input of LSTM Language Model 16:30 - 18:30 Touristic visit Thursday, November 26 09:00 - 09:50 Steve Young: Open-domain Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Bogdan Ludusan, Antonio Origlia and Emmanuel Dupoux: Rhythm-Based Syllabic Stress Learning without Labelled Data Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive and Pascale Sébillot: Probabilistic Speaker Pronunciation Adaptation for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis Using Linguistic Features Sarah Samson Juan, Laurent Besacier, Benjamin Lecouteux and Tien-Ping Tan: Merging of Native and Non-native Speech for Low-resource Accented ASR 11:35 - 11:50 Break 11:50 - 12:40 Jan Zelinka, Jan Vanek and Ludek Müller: Neural-Network-based Spectrum Processing for Speech Recognition and Speaker Verification Xiaoyi Wu, Yuji Matsumoto, Kevin Duh and Hiroyuki Shindo: An Improved Hierarchical Word Sequence Language Model Using Word Association 12:40 - 12:55 Closing