FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS EMNLP 2017 Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing (SCNLP)
Hosted at Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference September 7, 2017, Copenhagen Denmark SCNLP's goal is to unite the ASR and NLP communities to discuss new frameworks for exploiting the rich information present in the speech signal to improve the capabilities of natural language processing applications such as conversational agents, question-answering systems, machine translation, and search. SCNLP encourages novel contributions that revisit the conventional NLP problems with a focus on incorporating the richness of spoken language, as well as contributions that promote cross-fertilization between statistical methods for ASR and NLP. We envision SCNLP as a platform to promote collaboration between the ASR and NLP communities and to seek ways to lower the barrier of entry for researchers interested in working in the exciting intersection between Speech and Natural Language Processing. Important Dates February 2017: First call for workshop papers June 2 2017: Workshop papers due June 30 2017: Notification of acceptance July 14 2017: Camera-ready due September 7 2017: Workshop date *Note to MT Researchers*: Unfortunately, this workshop overlaps with Day 1 of the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17), also co-located at EMNLP. We do not wish to detract submissions from WMT, but we would encourage your participation if you are working on the intersection of ASR and MT. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Speech translation Spoken dialogue systems Spoken query reformulation for Question/Answering systems Word-sense disambiguation for speech transcripts Information extraction on speech transcripts (combining textual corpora with speech corpora) Domain adaptation (Adapting textual NLP training data to speech-centric tasks) ASR evaluation for NLP ASR error modeling Speech segmentation for NLP Punctuation insertion Disfluency detection and correction NLP with ASR lattices/confusion networks Discourse and Speech Processing Joint ASR/NLP modeling We are excited to have a strong program committee consisting of research leaders spanning the Speech and NLP communities. For more information, please visit our website here: http://speechnlp.github.io/2017/ We look forward to seeing you! Nicholas Ruiz (Interactions, USA) Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions, USA) [email protected] -- ******************************************************************************* This e-mail and any of its attachments may contain Interactions Corporation proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to the Interactions Corporation. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout. Thank You. *******************************************************************************
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