Call for papers
ICNLSP 2019, the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, will be held this year at the university of Trento. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.
This year, a workshop on NLP solutions for under-resourced languages will be held under the umbrella of ICNLSP.
Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference.
The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2019 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
Text categorization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational Social Web
Arabic dialects processing
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
New language models
Arabic OCR
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
Requirements engineering and NLP
NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
Knowledge fundamentals
Knowledge management systems
Information extraction
Data mining and information retrieval
Machine translation
Submission Calls
Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2019
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.
Authors can use the IEEE format: Latex or Doc., .
Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper.
Important dates
Submission deadline: 30 May 2019
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2019
Camera-ready paper due: 10 July 2019
Conference dates: 12, 13 September 2019
Publication
The accepted papers will be submitted to be published in ACL anthology.
Touristic Visit
A touristic visit is planned on the second day of the conference.
Technical Program
Tuesday, 12 September 2019
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08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 – 09:15 09:15 – 10:15 |
Opening Session : Opening address Keynote 1: Preslav Nakov Detecting the “Fake News” before they were even written |
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10:15 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:30 |
Oral Session 1: Speech analysis |
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10:30 – 10:50 |
Hali Lindsay, Nicklas Linz, Johannes Troeger and Jan Alexandersson. Automatic Data-Driven Approaches for Evaluating the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task with Healthy Adults |
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10:50 – 11:10 |
Punnoose Kuriakose. A Probabilistic Approach for Confidence Scoring in Speech Recognition |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
Georgia Koupka. Production of Voicing Contrast in Greek Children with Cochlear Implants |
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11:30 – 11:50 |
Messaouda Boumaraf and Fatiha Merazka. Speech Coding Combining Chaos Encryption and Error Recovery for G.722.2 Codec |
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11:50 – 12:10 |
Khaled Lounnas, Mourad Abbas and Mohamed Lichouri. Building a Speech Corpus based on Arabic Podcasts for Language and Dialect Identification |
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12:10 – 12:30 |
Ilyes Zine, Mohamed Cherif Zeghad, Soumia Bougrine and Hadda Cherroun. A Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Speech Corpus Transcription Case of Arabic Algerian Dialects |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 14:50 |
Oral Session 2: Text Summarization |
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14:00 – 14:15 |
Lamees Al Qassem, Di Wang, Hassan Barada, Ahmad Al-Rubaie and Nawaf Almoosa. Automatic Arabic Text Summarization Based on Fuzzy Logic |
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14:15 – 14:30 |
Mohamed Amine Cheragui and Said Moulay Lakhdar. SumSAT: Hybrid Arabic Text Summarization based on symbolic and numerical Approaches |
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14:30 – 14:50 |
Apostolos Karanikolos and Ioannis Refanidis. Encoding Position Improves Recurrent Neural Text Summarizers |
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14:50 – 16 :10 |
Oral Session 3: Language Resources |
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14:50 – 15:10 |
Nandu Chandran Nair, Rajendran Sankara Velayuthan and Khuyagbaatar Batsuren. Aligning the IndoWordNet with the Princeton WordNet |
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15:10 – 15:30 |
Osama Hamed. Automatic Diacritization as Prerequisite Towards the Automatic Generation of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests |
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15:30 – 15:50 |
Wei-Ting Chen, Yu-Te Wang and Chuan-Jie Lin. Expanding English and Chinese Dictionaries by Wikipedia Titles |
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15:50 – 16:10 |
Mohamed Lichouri, Mourad Abbas, Rachida Djeradi and Amar Djeradi. An Arabic Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding System |
Friday, 13 September 2019
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote 2: Fausto Giunchiglia One world – seven thousand languages |
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10:00 – 11:20 |
Oral Session 4: Text Classification |
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10:00 – 10:20 |
Dijana Kosmajac and Vlado Keselj. Twitter Bot Detection using Diversity Measures |
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10:20 – 10:40 |
Jean-Christophe Mensonides, Sébastien Harispe, Jacky Montmain and Véronique Thireau. Automatic Detection and Classification of Argument Components using Multi-task Deep Neural Network |
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10:40 – 11:00 |
Ashraf Elnagar, Omar Einea and Ridhwan Al-Debsi. Automatic Text Tagging of Arabic News Articles Using Ensemble Deep Learning Models |
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11:00 – 11:20 |
Hossam Ahmed. Sample Size in Arabic Authorship Verification |
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11:20 – 12:20 |
Oral Session 5: Semantic Analysis |
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11:20 – 11:40 |
Shobhit Jain, Sravan Babu Bodapati, Ramesh Nallapati and Anima Anandkumar. Multi Sense Embeddings from Topic Models |
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11:40 – 12:00 |
Guani Wu and Ker-Chau Li. A folksonomy-based approach for profiling human perception on word similarity |
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12:00 – 12:20 |
Amir Ziai. Compositional pre-training for neural semantic parsing |
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12:20 – 12:40 |
Closing Session |
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12:40 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Local tour |
Duration of presentations is limited to 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.
