ICNLSP 2018

Call for Papers

We are happy to invite you to submit your papers to the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018 which will be held in Algiers on April 25th and 26th 2018. The first edition ICNSLP 2015, as ICNLSP 2018, had been organized in 2015 in Algiers. 

ICNLSP 2018 aims to cover all aspects of natural language and speech processing. It aims to attract contributions in basic theories and applications as well, regular and posters sessions will be organized. There will be an opportunity to take advantage of valuable keynotes delivered by scholars in the field to shed light on the state of the art and the latest developments. 

We invite papers discussing the science and technology related to speech and natural language, regardless of the language studied, however works on Arabic and its dialects are encouraged. The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2018 but not limited to:

• Signal processing

• acoustic modeling 

• Architecture of speech recognition system 

• Deep learning for speech recognition 

• Analysis of speech 

• Paralinguistics in Speech and Language 

• Pathological speech and language

•  Speech coding

•  Speech comprehension

•  Summarization 

• Speech Translation

•  Speech synthesis

•  Speaker and language identification

•  Phonetics

• phonology and prosody 

• Cognition and natural language processing

•  Information retrieval

•  Text categorization

•  Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

•  Computational Social Web 

• Arabic dialects processing

•  Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora

•  New language models 

• Arabic OCR 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Chair Mourad Abbas

 Mourad Abbas, CRSTDLA, Algeria 

Ahmed Abdelali, QCRI, Qatar

Mohamed Afify, Microsoft, Egypt 

Mansour Alghamdi, KACST, Saudi Arabia 

Farah Benamara Zitoune, Paul Sabatier Univ., France 

Daoud Berkani, ENP, Algeria 

Djamel Bouchaffra, CDTA, Algeria 

Youcef Chibani, USTHB, Algeria 

Gérard Chollet, CNRS, France 

Kareem Darwish, QCRI, Qatar 

Mohamed Elfeky, Google Inc., USA 

Ahmed Guessoum, USTHB, Algeria 

Valia Kordoni,  Humboldt University, Germany 

Eric Laporte,   UPEM, France 

Georges Linarès, University of Avignon, France 

Walid Magdy University of Edinburgh, UK 

Lluis Marquez, QCRI, Qatar 

Preslav Nakov, QCRI, Qatar 

Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt 

Khaled Shaalan The British University in Dubai, UAE 

Otakar Smrz, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic 

Rudolph Sock, University of Strasbourg, France 

Stephan Vogel, QCRI, Qatar 

Marcos Zampieri, University of Cologne, Germany 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 - Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar 

- Gérard Chollet, Emeritus researcher, CNRS, France 

- Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria 

IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission deadline: 18 December 2017 

Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2018 

Camera-ready paper due: 28 February 2018 

Conference dates: 25, 26 April 2018 

PUBLICATION

The accepted papers will be submitted to IEEExplore.

The extended versions of the selected papers will be submitted to an indexed journal.

CONTACT 

Dr. Mourad Abbas 

m_abbas04@yahoo.fr 

icnlsp2018@gmail.com