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Statistical Language and Speech Processing

6th International Conference, SLSP 2018, Mons, Belgium, October 15–16, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11171)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): SLSP: International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing

Conference proceedings info: SLSP 2018.

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Invited Paper

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications

      • Isabel Trancoso, Joana Correia, Francisco Teixeira, Bhiksha Raj, Alberto Abad
      Pages 3-6
  3. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. DNN-Based Speech Synthesis for Arabic: Modelling and Evaluation

      • Amal Houidhek, Vincent Colotte, Zied Mnasri, Denis Jouvet
      Pages 9-20
    3. Phone-Level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

      • Antoine Perquin, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Laurent Amsaleg
      Pages 21-31
    4. Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept

      • Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Pascale Sébillot
      Pages 32-44
  4. Speech Recognition and Post-Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. A Syllable Structure Approach to Spoken Language Recognition

      • Ruei-Hung Alex Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
      Pages 56-66
    3. Investigating a Hybrid Learning Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

      • Gueorgui Pironkov, Sean U. N. Wood, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit
      Pages 67-78
    4. A Comparison of Adaptation Techniques and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures

      • Jan Vaněk, Josef Michálek, Jan Zelinka, Josef Psutka
      Pages 79-90
    5. Restoring Punctuation and Capitalization Using Transformer Models

      • Andris Vāravs, Askars Salimbajevs
      Pages 91-102
  5. Natural Language Processing and Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Arabic Name Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning

      • David Awad, Caroline Sabty, Mohamed Elmahdy, Slim Abdennadher
      Pages 105-116
    3. Movie Genre Detection Using Topological Data Analysis

      • Pratik Doshi, Wlodek Zadrozny
      Pages 117-128
    4. Low-Resource Text Classification Using Domain-Adversarial Learning

      • Daniel Grießhaber, Ngoc Thang Vu, Johannes Maucher
      Pages 129-139
    5. Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator

      • Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Hervé Spechbach
      Pages 140-152
  6. Text Processing and Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. Knowledge Transfer for Active Learning in Textual Anonymisation

      • Laura García-Sardiña, Manex Serras, Arantza del Pozo
      Pages 155-166

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2018, held in Mons, Belgium, in October 2018.

The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: speech synthesis and spoken language generation; speech recognition and post-processing; natural language processing and understanding; and text processing and analysis. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

    Thierry Dutoit, Gueorgui Pironkov

  • Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

    Carlos Martín-Vide

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Statistical Language and Speech Processing

  • Book Subtitle: 6th International Conference, SLSP 2018, Mons, Belgium, October 15–16, 2018, Proceedings

  • Editors: Thierry Dutoit, Carlos Martín-Vide, Gueorgui Pironkov

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00810-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00809-3Published: 19 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00810-9Published: 08 October 2018

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 191

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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