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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2019
Ljubljana, Slovenia
October 14-16, 2019
Co-organized by:
Jo��ef Stefan Institute
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/
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PROGRAM
Monday, October 14
09:00 - 09:30���� ��Registration
09:30 - 09:40���� ��Opening
09:40 - 10:30���� ��Jure Leskovec. Learning and Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs - Invited lecture
10:30 - 11:00���� ��Break
11:00 - 12:40
Izidor Mlakar, Darinka Verdonik, Simona Majhenic and Matej Rojc. Towards Pragmatic Understanding of Conversational Intent: A Multimodal Annotation Approach to Multiparty Informal Interaction ��� the EVA Corpus
Matthieu Riou, Bassam Jabaian, St��phane Huet and Fabrice Lef��vre. Lilia, a Showcase for Fast Bootstrap of Conversation-like Dialogues Based on a Goal-oriented System
Natalia Tomashenko, Antoine Caubri��re, Yannick Est��ve, Antoine Laurent and Emmanuel Morin. Recent Advances in End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding
Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares and Lo��c Barrault. A Study on Multilingual Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation: Finding the Balance between Languages
12:40 - 14:10���� ��Lunch
14:10 - 15:25
Daphn�� Chopard and Irena Spasic. A Deep Learning Approach to Self-expansion of Abbreviations Based on Morphology and Context Distance
Ondrej Herman, Milo�� Jakub��cek, Vojtech Kov��r and Pavel Rychl��. Word Sense Induction Using Word Sketches
Tatiana Kachkovskaia. Temporal "Declination" in Different Types of IPs in Russian: Preliminary Results
15:25 - 15:55���� ��Break
15:55 - 16:45
Sammy Khalife, Leo Liberti and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Geometry and Analogies: A Study and Propagation Method for Word Representations
Bla�� ��krlj and Senja Pollak. Language Comparison via Network Topology
16:45 - 17:00���� ��Break
17:00 - 17:40���� ��Poster session I
Abdulrahman Alqarafi and Kevin Swingler. Arabic Multi-dialects Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis
Andrejaana Andova and Mitja Lu��trek. Four Attempts at Cross-dataset Speech Emotion Recognition
Leila Ben Letaifa, Mikel de Velasco, Raquel Justo and M. In��s Torres. First Steps to Develop a Corpus of Interactions between Elderly and Virtual Agents in Spanish with Emotion Labels
Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Multi-stage Stance Detection using Classical and Deep Learning Approaches
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Tuesday, October 15
09:00 - 09:50���� ��Alexandros Potamianos. Emotion and Behavioral Tracking in the Lab and in the Wild - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:20���� ��Break
10:20 - 11:35
Rimah Amami, Hassan Eraky and Rim Amami. An Incremental System for Voice Pathology Detection Combining Possibilistic SVM and HMM
Ascensi��n Gallardo-Antol��n and Juan Montero. External Attention LSTM Models for Cognitive Load Classification from Speech
Dominik Mach��cek, Jon���� Kratochv��l, Tereza Vojtechov�� and Ondrej Bojar. A Speech Test Set of Practice Business Presentations with Additional Relevant Texts
11:35 - 12:05���� ��Break
12:05 - 12:55
Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot and Jonathan Chevelu. Investigating the Relation between Voice Corpus Design and Hybrid Synthesis under Reduction Constraint
Nirayo Hailu Gebreegziabher and Andreas Nuernberger. An Amharic Syllable-based Speech Corpus for Continuous Speech Recognition
12:55 - 14:25���� ��Group photo and Lunch
14:25 - 15:40
Diana Geneva, Georgi Shopov and Stoyan Mihov. Building an ASR Corpus Based on Bulgarian Parliament Speeches
Jens Heitkaemper, Thomas Feher, Michael Freitag and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. A Study on Online Source Extraction in the Presence of Changing Speaker Positions
Sean Robertson, Gerald Penn and Yingxue Wang. Improving Speech Recognition with Drop-in Replacements for f-bank Features
15:40 - 16:10���� ��Break
16:10 - 17:00
Bal��zs Tarj��n, Gy��rgy Szasz��k, Tibor Fegy�� and P��ter Mihajlik. Investigation on N-gram Approximated RNNLMs for Recognition of Morphologically Rich Speech
Jan Vanek, Josef Michalek and Josef Psutka. Tuning of Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation Technique for a Real Speech Recognition Task
17:00 - 17:15���� ��Break
17:15 - 17:55���� ��Poster session II
Denis Memmesheimer and Karin Harbusch. Analytical and Visual Support Choosing the Optimal k for Top k Parse Reordering in Natural Language Ambiguity Resolution
Shamila Nasreen and Matthew Purver. Interaction Patterns in Conversations with Alzheimer's Patients
R��mi Uro, Marc Evrard, Nicolas Herv�� and B��atrice Mazoyer. The Constitution of a French Tweet Corpus for Automatic Stance Detection
Olga Yakovenko and Ivan Bondarenko. Convolutional Variational Autoencoders for Audio Feature Representation in Speech Recognition Systems
18:00 - 20:00���� ��Touristic visit
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Wednesday, October 16
09:00 - 09:50���� ��Odette Scharenborg. The Representation and Processing of Speech in Human Listeners and Deep Neural Network-based Automatic Speech Recognition Systems - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:20���� ��Break
10:20 - 11:35
Lu��s Barbosa, Jo��o Filgueiras, Gil Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Luis Paulo Reis, Jo��o Pedro Machado, Ana Cristina Caldeira and Ana Maria Oliveira. Automatic Identification of Economic Activities in Complaints
Rajarshi Biswas, Michael Barz, Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow and Daniel Sonntag. Automatic Judgement of Neural Network-Generated Image Captions
Fuad Mire Hassan and Mark Lee. Imbalanced Stance Detection by Combining Deep Learning and External Features
11:35 - 11:50���� ��Break
11:50 - 13:05
Kristian Miok, Dong Nguyen-Doan, Bla�� ��krlj, Daniela Zaharie and Marko Robnik-��ikonja. Prediction Uncertainty Estimation for Hate Speech Classification
Polina Panicheva and Tatiana Litvinova. Authorship Attribution in Russian in Real-World Forensics Scenario
Bla�� ��krlj, Andra�� Repar and Senja Pollak. RaKUn: Rank-based Keyword Detection via Unsupervised Learning and Meta Vertex Aggregation
13:05 - 13:15���� ��Closing
13:15���� ��Lunch
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