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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We are happy to introduce the 1st Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing (SCNLP), which will be held at at COLING 2016 in Osaka, Japan! 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. In addition to acoustic environment information, the audio signal may contain speaker-specific features which may identify the emotional state, demographic information, and the presence of uncertainty in the speaker’s utterance: features which may influence the output of the NLP component. 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 We invite submissions of both long and short papers on original and unpublished work. Similar to the main conference, submissions are limited to 8 pages. All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Joint ASR/NLP modeling using deep learning Spoken query reformulation for Question/Answering systems ASR error modeling and evaluation for NLP Emotive Speech Synthesis for Spoken dialogue systems Word-sense disambiguation for speech Information extraction from speech transcripts Domain adaptation (Adapting textual NLP training data to speech-centric tasks) Spoken language translation Rich speech transcription Disfluency and uncertainty detection NLP with ASR lattices/confusion networks Speech segmentation for NLP Discourse and Speech Processing All submissions should conform to COLING 2016 style guidelines, located here: http://coling2016.anlp.jp/#instructions Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Submission instructions will be provided in the near future. IMPORTANT DATES June 2016: First call for workshop papers September 25 2016: Workshop paper due October 16 2016: Notification of acceptance October 30 2016: Camera-ready due November 30, 2016: Official proceedings publication date December 11, 2016: Workshop date WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Nicholas Ruiz (Interactions, USA) Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Loïc Barrault (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine) Frederic Béchet (Aix Marseille Université) Francisco Casacuberta (Universitat Politècnica de València) Giuseppe di Fabbrizio (Amazon, USA) Peter Heeman (Oregon Health & Science University, USA) Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, USA) Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University) Gakuto Kurata (IBM Research, Tokyo) Yang Liu (University of Texas at Dallas) Yajie Miao (Carnegie Mellon University) Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens) Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento) Isabel Trancoso (L2F, Lisbon) Jason Williams (Microsoft Research, USA) WEBSITE http://speechnlp.github.io/2016 CONTACT scnlp {AT} interactions.com
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