2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018

The 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018

will be organized by the Computational
Linguistics Department (crstdla) on April 25th and 26th 2018 in
Algiers. The first edition of ICNLSP (icnlsp 2015) was held on October
2015, in Algiers too.

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
Arabic dialects processing
Under-resourced languages : tools and corpora
New language models
Arabic OCR

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mourad Abbas, Researcher, CRSTDLA, Algeria
Ahmed Abdelali, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Afify, Researcher, Microsoft, Egypt
Mansour Alghamdi, Professor, KACST, Saudi Arabia
Daoud Berkani, Professor, ENP, Algeria
Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria
Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France
Kareem Darwish, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Elfeky, Researcher, Google Inc., USA
Ahmed Guessoum, Professor, USTHB, Algeria
Walid Magdy, Associate professor, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lluis Marquez, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Preslav Nakov, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Otakar Smrz, Researcher, DžÁm-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Rudolph Sock, Professor, University of Strasbourg, France
Stephan Vogel, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Marcos Zampieri, Researcher, University of Cologne, Germany

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN

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.

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

Mourad Abbas
General Chair