Bibliographie
2nd International Workshop FETLT16 :
Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, Machine Learning and
Big Data
Seville, Spain, 30th November - 1st, 2nd December, 2016
http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2016/
E-mail : fetlt@us.es
Important dates :
Paper submission deadline : 21st August 2016
Acceptance notification : 10th October 2016
Early Registration Deadline : 20th October 2016
Paper final version submission : 20th October 2016
Workshop dates 30th November, 1st - 2nd December 2016
We would like to focus your attention to some new information added to
this CfP, namely :
- The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNAI series ;
- Confirmed list of Keynote and Invited Speakers ;
- A full list of Program Committee and Advisory Group Members ;
- Registration procedure is now open.
Keynote and Invited Speakers (confirmed) :
- Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR) : An Excursus through Policy Issues - at
the Crossroads of Data, Language Resources and Infrastructure.
- Michael McTear (University of Ulster) : The birth of the
conversational interface : a new kid on the block ?
- David Perez Fernandez (Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism) :
ish Plan for the Impulse of Language Technologies.
- German Rigau (University of the Basque Country) : Big Data for Natural
Language Processing.
- Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University, DFKI Language Technology Lab) :
Opportunities and Challenges for Language Technology in the New Era of
AI
- Philippe Wacker (LT-Innovate) : Improving the collaboration between
industry and research : offer and demand.
- Jason D. Williams (Microsoft Research) : End-to-end deep learning of
task-oriented dialog systems.
- Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon) : Title : To be announced.
We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper
to FETLT16.
This workshop has been conceived as a meeting point where experts and
professionals in the fields of language technologies and other
converging areas can discuss the state of the art, as well as the
emerging trends in the sector.
Scope :
The Workshop ’Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, Machine
Learning and Big Data’ has been conceived as a meeting point where
experts and professionals in the fields of language technologies and
other converging areas will discuss the state of the art, as well as the
emerging trends in the sector.
The main objective of this workshop is to serve as a bridge between
academia and industry, as well as representatives of agencies that
coordinate research and innovation policies.
The workshop thus guarantees a multidisciplinary common spirit in which
experts will be able to present and analyze the trends that will shape
the immediate future as well as the mid-term vision in this sector.
Following this approach, the organizing committee of the workshop
welcomes the reception of papers under the following categories :
List of topics
Topics should be related to any area of Speech and Text Technology,
including those studies that can be considered coming from convergent
areas or even industrial applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to :
Core areas of interest :
- Speech Recognition
- Voice search
- Quality of speech recognition
- Disfluency processing
- Speaker identification
- Forensic linguistics
- Voice-enabled Personal Assistants
- Semantics and ontologies
- Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Mining and
Question Answering
- Topic spotting and classi_cation
- Named entities/entity extraction
- Summarization
- Spoken document retrieval
- Conversational systems, dialogue modelling and management
- Open domains, incrementality, statistical DM, hybrid models, world
knowledge, metacognition
- Machine Translation
- Fully-automated MT services in global business and government services
- Speech-to-speech MT
- Development Frameworks
- Multimodality
- Multilinguality
- Neural Models and Embeddings
- Language Resources and Evaluation
- Multilingual resources
- Metadata, annotation, tools
- Machine Learning
- Active learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Deep learning
- Applications
- Big Data
- Social Media, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Mathematical Foundations
Convergent areas of interest :
- Mobile Devices
- Robotics and Vision
- Games & Social Networks
- Brain-computer Interfaces
- Technology background : Mobile, Cloud, etc.
- The Internet of Things (IoT)
Industrial areas of interest :
- Integration of state-of-the-art LT in support of multilingual global
business applications :
- Speech-to-Speech Translation
- Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
- Multilingual global marketing
- Applications to industrial sectors
- Healthcare and BioMedicine NLP
- Social Media
- Smart Cities
- Opinion Mining
- Public Administration
- Instruction & Teaching
- Communications
- LT in the Web World
- Crowdsourcing for LT
Submission procedure
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English
presenting original and unpublished research, not currently submitted
elsewhere.
Regular papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including
eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard
format for Springer Verlag LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Files must be sent via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fetlt2016
Papers submitted must identify the category as well as up to 3 of the
main topics aforementioned.
Publication
The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNAI series and
will be available by ordinary mail after the conference.
Registration
Before After
20th October 2016 20th October 2016
Standard fee 250 euros 300 euros
Student fee (1) 150 euros 200 euros
US Staff/Student attendee fee (2) 100 euros 100 euros
US Staff/Student admission only (2) (3) Free Free
Accompanying person(4) 60 euros 60 euros
1. Student registration fees must be accompanied by a signed letter of
certification from the professor of the undergraduate / M.Sc. /
Ph.D. student. The scanned copy of the letter must be sent by email
to fetlt at us dot es.
2. University of Seville (US) staff or students must send affiliation
proof by email to fetlt@us.es
3. Registration is compulsory and the number of participants is limited.
4. Social dinner event (1st December 2016)
Program Committee and Advisory Group :
Joseba Abaitua (Deusto University)
Alex Acero (Apple)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome)
Nuria Bel (University Pompeu Fabra)
Nate Blaylock (Nuance Communications)
Joaquin Borrego (University of Seville)
Wauter Bosma (Netherlands Forensic Institute)
Malek Boualem (Orange Labs)
Zoraida Callejas (University of Seville)
Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC)
Montserrat Civit-Torruella
Thierry Declerck (DFKI)
Christian Dugast (DFKI)
Juan Fernandez (Sentisis)
Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
Antonio Ferrandez (University of Alicante)
Bjorn Gamback (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Ana Garcia-Serrano (UNED)
Jesus Gimenez (Nuance Communications)
Xavier Gomez-Guinovart (University of Vigo)
Jose Carlos Gonzalez (MeaningCloud)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED)
Gregory Grefenstette (Inria)
David Griol (University Carlos III)
Helen Hastie (Heriot-Watt University)
Veronique Hoste (University of Ghent)
Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rebecca Jonson (Artificial Solutions)
Dietrich Klakow (University of Saarland)
Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)
Marc Liberman (University of Pennsylvania / LDC)
Ramon Lopez-Cozar (University of Granada)
Teresa Lopez-Soto (University of Seville)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI)
M. Antonia Marti (University of Barcelona)
Patricio Martinez-Barco (University of Alicante)
Mike McTear (University of Ulster)
George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Jose M. Pardo (Technical University of Madrid)
Mirko Plitt (Modula Language Automation)
Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Jose F. Quesada (University of Seville)
Manny Rayner (University of Geneva)
Steve Renals (University of Edinburg)
Antonio Reyes (Language Technology Lab ISIT)
Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento)
German Rigau (University of the Basque Country)
Carlos Rodriguez (AIA, GLICOM-UPF)
Jesus Romero-Trillo (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Francisco J. Salguero (University of Seville)
Javier Sastre (Ateknea Solutions)
Richard Sproat (Google)
Gerard Steen (University of Amsterdam)
Dan Stefanescu (Audible Inc)
David Suendermann-Oeft (ETS)
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University)
Antonio J. Teixeira (University of Aveiro)
Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva)
Doroteo Torre Toledano (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Khiet Truong (University of Twente)
Alfonso Urena (University of Jaen)
Paul Vogt (Tilburg University)
Piek Vosen (University of Amsterdam)
Jason D. Williams (Microsoft Research)
Hendrik Zender (Nuance Communications)
Organizing Committee
Joaquin Borrego-Diaz (University of Seville)
Juan Galan-Paez (University of Seville)
Diego Jimenez (University of Seville)
Teresa Lopez-Soto (University of Seville)
Francisco J. Martin-Mateos (University of Seville)
Angel Nepomuceno (University of Seville)
Jose L. Pro (University of Seville)
Jose F. Quesada (University of Seville)
Francisco J. Salguero (University of Seville)
Program Chair
Jose F Quesada, University of Seville
Location
FETLT-2016 will be held at the University of Seville, Spain.
For more information, please visit : http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2016/
Contact : fetlt@us.es