First Announcement and Call for Papers FETLT 2016 WORKWHOP Seville (Spain) 30th November - 1st, 2nd December, 2016 http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2016/ Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies Machine Learning and Big Data 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. Language technologies have become a prominent area of research, development and innovation. New trends and proposals in this field will have an impressive social impact in the near future. Therefore, the workshop will welcome contributions describing results and ongoing projects exploring new tendencies, techniques and approaches. Among them, we would like to place a special emphasis on the convergence between Language Technologies, Machine Learning and Big Data. ------------------------------ --------- 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 ------------------------------ --------- 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: * New applications of key consolidated approaches * Emerging research * Challenge papers ------------------------------ --------- 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 classification * 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 ------------------------------ --------- LOCATION ------------------------------ --------- FETLT-2016 will be held at the University of Seville, Spain. For more information, please visit: http://www.glc.us.es/ fetlt2016/ ------------------------------ --------- 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. Paper submission deadline 21st August 2016 Acceptance notification 10th October 2016 Paper final version submission 20th October 2016 ------------------------------ --------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND ADVISORY GROUP ------------------------------ --------- * Joseba Abaitua (Deusto University) * Alex Acero (Apple) * Roberto Basili (University of Rome) * Núria Bel (University Pompeu Fabra) * Joaquín Borrego (University of Seville) * Malek Boualem (Orange Labs) * Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC) * Montserrat Civit-Torruella * Thierry Declerck (DFKI) * Christian Dugast (DFKI) * Juan Fernández (Sentisis) * Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) * Antonio Ferrández (University of Alicante) * Björn Gambäck (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) * Ana García-Serrano (UNED) * Jesús Giménez (Nuance Communications) * Xavier Gómez-Guinovart (University of Vigo) * José Carlos Gonzalez (MeaningCloud) * Julio Gonzalo (UNED) * Gregory Grefenstette (Inria) * 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) * Ramón López-Cózar (University of Granada) * Teresa López-Soto (University of Seville) * Roberto Manione (AlliumTech) * Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI) * M. Antonia Martí (University of Barcelona) * Patricio Martínez-Barco (University of Alicante) * George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) * Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) * Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (Autonomous University of Madrid) * José M. Pardo (Technical University of Madrid) * Mirko Plitt (Modula Language Automation) * Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute) * James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) * José 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 Rodríguez (AIA, GLICOM-UPF) * Jesús 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) * António J. Teixeira (University of Aveiro) * Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva) * Doroteo Torre Toledano (Autonomous University of Madrid) * Khiet Truong (University of Twente) * Alfonso Ureña (University of Jaen) * Paul Vogt (Tilburg University) * Piek Vosen (University of Amsterdam) * Jason D. Williams (Microsoft Research) * Hendrik Zender (Nuance Communications) ------------------------------ --------- INVITED SPEAKERS (Confirmed) ------------------------------ --------- * Branco, Antonio (University of Lisbon) * McTear, Mike (University of Ulster) * Rigau, German (University of the Basque Country) * Wacker, Philippe (LT-innovate) * Williams, Jason D. (Microsoft Research) ------------------------------ --------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------ --------- * Joaquín Borrego-Díaz (University of Seville) * Juan Galán-Páez (University of Seville) * Diego Jiménez (University of Seville) * Teresa López-Soto (University of Seville) * Francisco J. Martín-Mateos (University of Seville) * Ángel Nepomuceno (University of Seville) * José L. Pro (University of Seville) * José F. Quesada (University of Seville) * Francisco J. Salguero (University of Seville) ------------------------------ --------- PROGRAM CHAIR ------------------------------ --------- * Jose F Quesada, University of Seville ------------------------------ --------- CONTACT ------------------------------ --------- fetlt2016@gmail.com
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