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 SLSP 20208th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
 
 Cardiff, United Kingdom
 
 October 14-16, 2020
 
 Co-organized by:
 
 School of Computer Science and Informatics
 Cardiff University
 
 Data Innovation Research Institute
 Cardiff University
 
 Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
 
 http://slsp2020.irdta.eu
 
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 AIMS:
 
 SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between the two domains will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2020, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
 
 Previous events took place in Tarragona, Grenoble, Budapest, Pilsen, Le Mans, Mons, and Ljubljana.
 
 VENUE:
 
 SLSP 2020 will take place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales and its political, commercial and cultural centre. The venue will be:
 
 Cardiff University
 Cardiff
 Wales
 CF10 3AT
 UK
 
 SCOPE:
 
 The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
 anaphora and coreference resolution
 authorship identification, plagiarism, and spam filtering
 corpora and resources for speech and language
 data mining, term extraction, and semantic web
 dialogue systems and spoken language understanding
 information retrieval and information extraction
 knowledge representation and ontologies
 lexicons and dictionaries
 machine translation and computer-aided translation
 multimodal technologies
 natural language understanding and generation
 neural representation of speech and language
 opinion mining and sentiment analysis
 part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and semantic role labelling
 question-answering systems for speech and text
 speaker identification and verification
 speech recognition, transcription, and synthesis
 spelling correction
 text categorization and summarization
 user modeling
 
 STRUCTURE:
 
 SLSP 2020 will consist of:
 
 invited lectures
 peer-reviewed contributions
 posters
 
 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
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 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed)
 
 Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, US)
 Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, FR)
 Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR)
 Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, IT)
 Bill Campbell (Amazon, US)
 Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)
 Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE)
 Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras, GR)
 Marcello Federico (Amazon AI, US)
 Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
 Ond?ej Glembek (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
 Ralph Grishman (New York University, US)
 Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK)
 Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)
 Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
 Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, US)
 Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG)
 Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
 Seiichi Nakagawa (Chubu University, JP)
 Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)
 Irena Spasi? (Cardiff University, UK)
 Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Netherlands eScience Center, NL)
 Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)
 Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
 K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US)
 Andy Way (Dublin City University, IE)
 Caiming Xiong (Salesforce, US)
 Steve Young (University of Cambridge, UK)
 Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina Charlotte, US)
 Guodong Zhou (Soochow University, CN)
 
 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
 Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff)
 Sara Morales (Brussels)
 Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
 David Silva (London, co-chair)
 Irena Spasi? (Cardiff, co-chair)
 
 SUBMISSIONS:
 
 Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
 Upload submissions to:
 
 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2020
 
 PUBLICATIONS:
 
 A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
 A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
 REGISTRATION:
 
 The registration form can be found at:
 
 http://slsp2020.irdta.eu/registration/
 
 DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
 Paper submission: June 1, 2020
 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 6, 2020
 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 15, 2020
 Early registration: July 15, 2020
 Late registration: September 30, 2020
 Submission to the journal special issue: January 16, 2021
 
 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
 david (at) irdta.eu
 
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
 School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
 
 Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
 
 IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
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