International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
ICNLSP
Location: 
Hilton Hotel
Sunday, 18 October 2015 to Monday, 19 October 2015
Country: 
Algeria
City: 
Algiers
Contact: 
smaili@loria.fr
m_abbas04@yahoo.fr
Submission Deadline: 
Thursday, 28 May 2015

The first International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2015 is a conference which creates a synergy between Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition communities. It highlights new approaches related to the language in both its aspects : text and speech spanning basic theories to applications. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers. The conference program will include all presentations of the accepted papers, posters or oral.
ICNLSP is organized by the "Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique pour le Développement de la Langue Arabe", and will be held on October 18-19, 2015, in Algiers at Hilton Hotel.
Three keynotes speakers will be presented by:

- Stephan Vogel (Reserach Director of the Arabic Language Technologies group - Qatar Computing Research Institute QCRI)
- Jean Paul Haton (Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France)
- Mohamed Afify (A senior researcher anc leader of the speech team in Microsoft Cairo)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Signal processing, acoustic modeling.
Architecture of speech recognition system.
Deep learning for speech recognition.
Speech coding.
Speech comprehension and summarization
Speech Translation
Speech synthesis.
Speaker and language identification
Phonetics, phonology and prosody.
Cognition and natural language processing
Information retrieval.
Under-resourced languages : tools and corpora.
New language models.

K. Smaïli