ICNLSP 2018: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing Algiers, Algeria, April 25-26, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.icnlsp.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2018 |
Submission deadline | December 18, 2017 |
The 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2018) is a conference which aims to cover all aspects of natural language and speech processing. It aims to attract contributions in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized. It offers opportunity to take advantage of valuable keynotes delivered by scholars in the field to shed light on the state of the art and the latest developments.
The first edition of ICNLSP (ICNLSP 2015), was held in 2015
ICNLSP 2018 invites papers discussing the science and technology related to speech and natural language, regardless of the language studied, however works on Arabic and its dialects are encouraged.
Keynote speakers
- Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar
- Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France
- Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria
List of Topics
- Signal processing, acoustic modeling
- Architecture of speech recognition system
- Deep learning for speech recognition
- Analysis of speech
- Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
- Pathological speech and language
- Speech coding
- Speech comprehension
- Summarization
- Speech Translation
- Speech synthesis
- Speaker and language identification
- Phonetics, phonology and prosody
- Cognition and natural language processing
- Information retrieval
- Text categorization
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Computational Social Web
- Arabic dialects processing
- Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
- New language models
- Arabic OCR
Committees
Program Committee
- Mourad Abbas Researcher, CRSTDLA, Algeria
- Ahmed Abdelali Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
- Mohamed Afify Researcher, Microsoft, Egypt
- Mansour Alghamdi Professor, KACST, Saudi Arabia
- Daoud Berkani Professor, ENP, Algeria
- Djamel Bouchaffra Professor, CDTA, Algeria
- Youcef Chibani Professor, USTHB, Algeria
- Gérard Chollet Emeritus CNRS researcher, France
- Kareem Darwish Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
- Mohamed Elfeky Researcher, GOOGLE Inc., USA
- Ahmed Guessoum Professor, USTHB, Algeria
- Walid Magdy Associate professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Lluis Marquez Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
- Preslav Nakov Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
- Ahmed Rafea Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Khaled Shaalan Professor, The British University in Dubai, UAE
- Otakar Smrz Researcher, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
- Rudolph Sock Professor, University of Strasbourg, France
- Stephan Vogel Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
- Marcos Zampieri Researcher, University of Cologne, Germany
Submission now open
Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2018
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.
Papers must be prepared under the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligent – Springer-Verlag format.
Long papers (from 12 to 15 pages) as well as short papers (from 6 to 8 pages) are welcome.
Organizer
Computational Linguistics Department, crstdla
General Chair: Dr. Mourad Abbas (m_abbas04@yahoo.fr)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: icnlsp2018@gmail.com