Second Call for papers: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
ICNLSP 2018
Location: 
Algiers
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Wednesday, 25 April 2018 to Thursday, 26 April 2018
Country: 
Algeria
City: 
Algiers
Contact: 
Dr. Mourad Abbas
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 18 December 2017

Second call for papers : 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018

Dear all,

We are happy to invite you to submit your papers to the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018 (www.icnlsp.org) which will be held in Algiers on April 25th and 26th 2018.

The first edition ICNSLP 2015 (www.icnlsp.org/icnlsp2015), as ICNLSP 2018, had been organized in 2015 in Algiers by the Computational Linguistics Department of the Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique pour le Développement de la Langue Arabe.

ICNLSP 2018 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. There will be an 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.

We invite 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.
The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2018 but not limited to:

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mourad Abbas, CRSTDLA, Algeria
Ahmed Abdelali, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Afify, Microsoft, Egypt
Mansour Alghamdi, KACST, Saudi Arabia
Farah Benamara Zitoune, Assoc. Prof., Paul Sabatier Univ., France
Daoud Berkani, ENP, Algeria
Djamel Bouchaffra, CDTA, Algeria
Youcef Chibani, USTHB, Algeria
Gérard Chollet, CNRS, France
Kareem Darwish, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Elfeky, Google Inc., USA
Ahmed Guessoum, USTHB, Algeria
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University, Germany
Eric Laporte, UPEM, France
Georges Linarès, University of Avignon, France
Walid Magdy University of Edinburgh, UK
Lluis Marquez, QCRI, Qatar
Preslav Nakov, QCRI, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Khaled Shaalan The British University in Dubai, UAE
Otakar Smrz, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Rudolph Sock, University of Strasbourg, France
Stephan Vogel, QCRI, Qatar
Marcos Zampieri, University of Cologne, Germany

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar
- Gérard Chollet, Emeritus researcher, CNRS, France
- Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria

SUBMISSION

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 18 December 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2018
Camera-ready paper due: 28 February 2018
Conference dates: 25, 26 April 2018