ICNLSSP2017: International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing ISGA Casablanca, Morocco, December 5-6, 2017

ICNLSSP is an international conference dedicated to Natural Language Processing, Signal  and Speech recognition. ICNLSSP is a technical conference not only proposing new researches on the concerned topics but also will permit exchanging ideas between researchers from the world which will be very useful for PhD students and developers in this area. The selection criteria will be similar to those used for Large conferences such as Interspeech or Icassp. The committee program has a strong experience in the subjects of ICNLSSP. Researchers are encouraged to propose papers with new ideas which have not been yet published. Keynote speeches will be given by Professors and Doctors from Google, Microsoft, University of Waseda and IUF (Institut Universitaire de France).

Submission Guidelines

Researchers are encouraged to propose original and unpublished researches in empirical methods in natural language processing, information retrieval on social networks and speech recognition. Researches on under-resourced languages such as Arabic dialects will be strongly appreciated. Paper submissions must conform to the format in the guidelines described in the Author’s toolkit of ICNLSSP2017. Authors must read the format instructions in the template to ensure that their papers comply with the required format.

List of Topics

• Signal processing, acoustic modeling.

• Architecture of speech recognition system.

• Code-Switching and Arabic dialects

• Language processing of social network data

• Deep learning for speech recognition

• Speech comprehension 

• Speech Translation

• Speech synthesis.

• Speaker and language identification

• Phonetics, phonology and prosody.

• Cognition and natural language processing

• Information retrieval on social network

• Neural network language models.

• Machine Learning 

• Text Mining

• Video processing in social network

• Human-Machine Dialogue 

• Text summarization

• Image, video & multidimensional signal processing 

• Machine learning for signal processing

Committees

Program Committee

Frédéric Béchet ( Professor, University Aix-Marseille, France)

Laurent Besacier (Professor, University of Grenoble, France)

Karim Bouzoubaa ( Professor, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco)

Khalid Choukri (Executive director of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA))

Mona Diab (Associate Professor, George Washington University)

Yannick Estève (Professor, University of Le Mans, France)

Dominique Fohr (researcher, CNRS, France)

Jean-Paul Haton (Professor emeritus, University Lorraine, France)

Salma Jamoussi (Assistant Professor, University of Sfax, Tunisia)

Denis Jouvet (Researcher, INRIA Lorraine, France)

David Langlois (Assistant Professor, Lorraine University, France)

Chiraz Latiri (Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia)

Yves Lepage (Professor, University Waseda, Japan)

Mikolaj Leszcuk (Assistant Professor, Poland)

Khalifa Mansouri (Assistant Professor, University Hassan II)

Odile Mella (Assistant professor, University of Lorraine)

Franck Poirier (Professor, University of Bretagne sud)

Fatiha Sadat (Associate Professor, UQAM, Canada)

Christophe Servan (Dr Research Engineer chez Systran)

Khaled Shaalan (Professor, The British University in Dubai, UAE)

Olivier Siohan (Researcher, Google, USA)

Yahya Slimani (Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia)

Kamel Smaili (Professor, University Lorraine, France)

Juan-Manual Torrès (Assistant Professor, University of Avignon, France)

Emmanuel Vincent (Researcher, INRIA Lorraine, France)

Imed Zitouni (Researcher, Microsoft, USA)

Organizing committee

Venue

The conference will be held in Casablanca - Morocco 5 and 6 December, 2017

Program

December 5, 2017

8:00 – 8:30     Registration and Reception

8:30 – 9:00     Opening Session

9:00 – 10:00   Keynote Prof J.P. Haton (Institut Universitaire de France – France)

                      Artificial Intelligence: past, present and future

11:00 – 13:00  Session 1:  Speech and Signal  (Chair I. Zitouni)

11:00-11:20 Employing Context-Independent GMMs to Flat Start Context-Dependent CTC Acoustic Models

                        Mohamed Elfeky, Parisa Haghani, Seungji Lee, Eugene Weinstein and Pedro Moreno

11:20-11:40 About lexicon adaptation for automatic speech recognition of video data

                        Denis Jouvet, David Langlois, Mohamed Amine Menacer, Dominique Fohr, Odile Mella and Kamel Smaïli

11:40-12:00 Building an ASR System for a Low-research Language Through the Adaptation of a High-resource Language ASR System: Preliminary Results

                        Odette Scharenborg, Francesco Ciannella, Shruti Palaskar, Alan Black, Florian Metze, Lucas Ondel and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

12:00-12:20 Data Selection in the Framework of Automatic Speech Recognition

                       Ismael Bada, Juan Karsten, Dominique Fohr and Irina Illina

12:20-12:40 An analysis of psychoacoustically-inspired matching pursuit decompositions of speech  signals

                        Khalid Daoudi and Nicolas Vinuesa

12:40-13:00 Enthusiasm and disillusionment with voice assistants

                         Franck Poirier

14:30 – 15:30    Keynote Prof Yves Lepage (University of Waseda - Japan)

                        Automatic production of quasi-parallel corpora for machine translation

15:30 – 16:50  Session 2:  Machine Translation and Language Modelling  (Chair D. Langlois)

15:30-15:50 Is statistical machine translation approach dead?

                      Mohamed Amine Menacer,  David Langlois, Odile Mella, Dominique Fohr, Denis Jouvet and Kamel Smaïli

15:50-16:10 Assessing the Usability of Modern Standard Arabic Data in Enhancing  Language Model of Limited Size Dialect Conversations

                       Tiba Abdulhameed, Imed Zitouni, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader and Mohamed Abusharkh

16:10-16:30 GAWO: Genetic-based optimization algorithm for SMT

           Ameur Douib, David Langlois and Kamel Smaïli

16:30-16:50 Statistical Machine Translation from Arab Vocal Improvisation to  Instrumental Melodic Accompaniment

                         Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh and Kamel Smaïli

17:05 – 18:25  Session 3:  Speech applications (Chair D. Fohr)

17:05-17:25 Image2speech: Automatically generating audio descriptions of images

                        Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Alan Black, Lucas Ondel, Odette Scharenborg and Francesco Ciannella.

17:25-17:45 Speaker-dependent Selection of Cohort-utterances for Score Normalization in Speaker Recognition Systems        

                       Ayoub Bouziane, Jamal Kharroubi and Arsalane Zarghili

17:45-18:05 Enhancement of esophageal speech using voice conversion techniques

                        Imen Ben Othmane, Joseph Di Martino  and Kais Ouni

18:05-18:25 Sentence Boundary Detection for French with Subword-Level Information Vectors and Convolutional Neural Networks

          Carlos-Emiiano González-Gallardo andJuan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

December 6, 2017

9:30 – 10:30   Keynote Dr O. Siohan (Google – USA)

                       Advances in Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition at Google

11:00 – 13:00  Session 4:  Arabic dialect processing  (Chair K. Bouzoubaa)

11:00-11:20 An empirical study of the Algerian dialect of Social network

                 Abidi Karima and Smaıli Kamel

11:20-11:40 Maghrebi Arabic dialect processing: an overview

                        Salima Harrat, Karima Meftouh and Kamel Smaili

11:40-12:00 Automatic Dialectal Recognition in Arabic Broadcast Media

                        Bilal Belainine, Fatma Mallek and Fatiha Sadat

12:00-12:20 Linking Morocco to the Open Multilingual WordNet

                         Khalil Mrini and Francis Bond

14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Dr I. Zitouni (Microsoft – USA)

                     Conversational Semantic Search: looking beyond web search, Q&A and dialog systems

15:00 – 16:00  Session 5:  Dialog and Information Retrieval  (Chair F. Poirier)

15:00-15:20 A Word Embedding based Method for Question Retrieval in Community Question  Answering

                        Nouha Othman, Rim Faiz and Kamel Smaïli

15:20-15:40 Active Learning for Classifying Political Tweets          

                 Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Marc Esteve del Valle, Herbert Kruitbosch and Marcel Broersma

16:10-16:30 In-the-wild chatbot corpus: from opinion analysis to interaction problem detection

                        Irina Maslowski, Delphine Lagarde and Chloé Clavel

16:30-16:50 SMRE: Semi-supervised Medical Relation Extraction

                       Triki Sana, Boujelben Ines and Jamoussi Salma

17:05– 18:15 Tutorial Prof K. Bouzoubaa (University Mohammed V - Morocco)

                      Safar framework for Arabic NLP

18:15  Closing session and Best Paper Award

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to smaili@loria.fr, khalid.benzakour@isga.ma and mohammed.diouri@isga.ma