Statistical Language and Speech Processing: 4th International Conference, SLSP 2016, Pilsen, Czech Republic, October 11-12, 2016, Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Pavel Král, Carlos Martín-Vide (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9918
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2016, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in October 2016.

The 11 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover topics such as anaphora and coreference resolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering; computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data mining and semantic web; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and dictionaries; machine translation; multimodal technologies; natural language understanding; neural representation of speech and language; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; parsing; part-of-speech tagging; question and answering systems; semantic role labeling; speaker identification and verification; speech and language generation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech transcription; speech correction; spoken dialogue systems; term extraction; text categorization; test summarization; user modeling.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Continuous-Space Language Processing: Beyond Word Embeddings....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Testing the Robustness of Laws of Polysemy and Brevity Versus Frequency....Pages 19-29
Delexicalized and Minimally Supervised Parsing on Universal Dependencies....Pages 30-42
Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation Using Neural Word Embeddings....Pages 43-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Statistical Analysis of the Prosodic Parameters of a Spontaneous Arabic Speech Corpus for Speech Synthesis....Pages 57-67
Combining Syntactic and Acoustic Features for Prosodic Boundary Detection in Russian....Pages 68-79
Articulatory Gesture Rich Representation Learning of Phonological Units in Low Resource Settings....Pages 80-95
Estimating the Severity of Parkinson’s Disease Using Voiced Ratio and Nonlinear Parameters....Pages 96-107
Optimal Feature Set and Minimal Training Size for Pronunciation Adaptation in TTS....Pages 108-119
A New Perspective on Combining GMM and DNN Frameworks for Speaker Adaptation....Pages 120-132
Class n-Gram Models for Very Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Finnish and Estonian....Pages 133-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-145

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics);Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery;Pattern Recognition;Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages;Computation by Abstract Devices;Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)