Statistical Language and Speech Processing: 6th International Conference, SLSP 2018, Mons, Belgium, October 15–16, 2018, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2018, held in Mons, Belgium, in October 2018. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: speech synthesis and spoken language generation; speech recognition and post-processing; natural language processing and understanding; and text processing and analysis. Front Matter ....Pages I-X Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications (Isabel Trancoso, Joana Correia, Francisco Teixeira, Bhiksha Raj, Alberto Abad)....Pages 3-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 DNN-Based Speech Synthesis for Arabic: Modelling and Evaluation (Amal Houidhek, Vincent Colotte, Zied Mnasri, Denis Jouvet)....Pages 9-20 Phone-Level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis (Antoine Perquin, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Laurent Amsaleg)....Pages 21-31 Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept (Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, Pascale Sébillot)....Pages 32-44 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 Forced Alignment of the Phonologie du Français Contemporain Corpus (George Christodoulides)....Pages 47-55 A Syllable Structure Approach to Spoken Language Recognition (Ruei-Hung Alex Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang)....Pages 56-66 Investigating a Hybrid Learning Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition (Gueorgui Pironkov, Sean U. N. Wood, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit)....Pages 67-78 A Comparison of Adaptation Techniques and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures (Jan Vaněk, Josef Michálek, Jan Zelinka, Josef Psutka)....Pages 79-90 Restoring Punctuation and Capitalization Using Transformer Models (Andris Vāravs, Askars Salimbajevs)....Pages 91-102 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Arabic Name Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning (David Awad, Caroline Sabty, Mohamed Elmahdy, Slim Abdennadher)....Pages 105-116 Movie Genre Detection Using Topological Data Analysis (Pratik Doshi, Wlodek Zadrozny)....Pages 117-128 Low-Resource Text Classification Using Domain-Adversarial Learning (Daniel Grießhaber, Ngoc Thang Vu, Johannes Maucher)....Pages 129-139 Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator (Manny Rayner, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Hervé Spechbach)....Pages 140-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Knowledge Transfer for Active Learning in Textual Anonymisation (Laura García-Sardiña, Manex Serras, Arantza del Pozo)....Pages 155-166 Studying the Effects of Text Preprocessing and Ensemble Methods on Sentiment Analysis of Brazilian Portuguese Tweets (Fernando Barbosa Gomes, Juan Manuel Adán-Coello, Fernando Ernesto Kintschner)....Pages 167-177 Text Documents Encoding Through Images for Authorship Attribution (Daniel Lichtblau, Catalin Stoean)....Pages 178-189 Back Matter ....Pages 191-191