BalticHLT2018: The 8th International Conference “Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective” Tartu, Estonia, September 28-29, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.hlt2018.ut.ee |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=baltichlt2018 |
Submission deadline | May 14, 2018 |
The 8th International Conference “Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective” will take place in Tartu, Estonia, September 27th till 29th, 2018.
We invite you to submit extended abstracts (1000-1500 words) in a free (reasonable) format on substantial, original, and unpublished research in the area of natural language processing and language and speech technologies in general, with a special topic of interest being languages spoken in the Baltics.
Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to write a full paper, which will be published by IOS Press.
The deadline for submitting an extended abstract is May 14 21 (EEST).
List of Topics
Applications:
Machine translation and multilinguality
Human-computer interaction, dialog systems, question answering
Multimodal language processing, image captioning
Speech recognition, synthesis, translation
Information extraction, natural language understanding
Core methodology:
Machine learning and deep learning for language processing
Reinforcement/unsupervised/semi-supervised/transfer learning in NLP
Distributed representation learning and applications
Linguistic knowledge incorporation in machine learning approaches
Tagging, disambiguation, shallow/deep parsing
Ontologies, lexicons, terminology, knowledge representation
(Semi)automatic evaluation metrics and error analysis
Language resources:
Text/speech/multimodal data, design, evaluation
Resources and methods for lesser-resourced languages
Invited Speakers
- Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Alex Fraser, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany
- Peter Bell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Contact
All further information can be found on the website: https://www.hlt2018.ut.ee/, questions about submissions should be emailed to baltic-hlt@lists.ut.ee