ICNLSP 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2018) is an IEEE conference: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=43519

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. It offers 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.

The first edition of ICNLSP (ICNLSP 2015), was held in 2015

ICNLSP 2018 invites 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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar

Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France

Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2018

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.

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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, Assoc. Prof., 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

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

Accepted papers will be published in the ICNLSP proceedings and will be included in the IEEExplore digital library.

Extended versions of the selected papers will be submitted to a dedicated special issue of Open Computer Science Journal. Open Computer Science journal is indexed in Web of Science, Emerging Sources Citation Index, DBLP, etc.

A subset of the selected papers will be considered for publication in ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) which is indexed in SCOPUS.

CONTACT

Dr. Mourad Abbas

General Chair

m_abbas04@yahoo.fr

icnlsp2018@gmail.com