ICNLSP 2019

Third International Conference on Natural

Language and Speech Processing

After the success of the two editions of ICNLSP (ICNLSP 2018 and ICNLSP 2015), we are glad to announce ICNLSP 2019, the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held at the univeristy of Trento on September 12th, 13th 2019.

ICNLSP 2015 and ICNLSP 2018 are indexed in DBLP and published in Elsevier and IEEExplore respectively. Moreover, we should note that a workshop suggesting a set of tasks will be organized concomitantly with the conference.

We look forward to welcome you to ICNLSP 2019, hoping that it will be highly positive scientific event and wishing a happy time for all the participants.

Dr. Mourad Abbas

General Chair

Keynotes

Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy.

Preslav Nakov, QCRI, Qatar.

Call for papers

ICNLSP 2019, the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, will be held this year at the university of Trento. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.

This year, a workshop on NLP solutions for under-resourced languages will be held under the umbrella of ICNLSP.

Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference.

The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2019 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

Text categorization

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Computational Social Web

Arabic dialects processing

Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora

New language models

Arabic OCR

Lexical semantics and knowledge representation

Requirements engineering and NLP

NLP tools for software requirements and engineering

Knowledge fundamentals

Knowledge management systems

Information extraction

Data mining and information retrieval

Machine translation

Submission Calls

Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2019

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

Important dates

Submission deadline: 30 April 2019

Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2019

Camera-ready paper due: 10 July 2019

Conference dates: 12, 13 September 2019

Program Committee

Mourad Abbas, Researcher, CRSTDLA, Algeria

Ahmed Abdelali, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Mohamed Afify, Researcher, Microsoft, Egypt

Mansour Alghamdi, Professor, KACST, Saudi Arabia

Messaoud Bengherabi, Researcher, CDTA, Algeria

Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria

Markus Brückl, Researcher, TU Berlin, Germany

Hadda Cherroun, Prof., Amar Telidji University, Algeria

Gérard Chollet, Emeritus researcher,CNRS, France

Kareem Darwish, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Mohamed Elfeky, Researcher, Google Inc., USA

Mahmoud El-Haj, Researcher, Lancaster University, UK

Yahya Elhadj, Mohammad Ibn Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Abed Alhakim Freihat, Researcher, University of Trento, Italy

Neil Glackin, Intelligent Voice, UK

Abderrezak Guessoum, Saad Dahlab University, Algeria

Ahmed Guessoum, Professor, USTHB, Algeria

Fouzi Harrag, Farhat Abbas University, Algeria

Valia Kordoni, Associate professor, Humboldt University, Germany

Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Eric Laporte, Professor, UPEM, France

Georges Linarès, Professor, University of Avignon, France

Walid Magdy, Associate professor, University of Edinburgh, UK

Shervin Malmasi, Harvard University, USA

Lluis Marquez, Researcher, Amazon, Spain

Mohammed Mediani, University of Adrar, Algeria

Farid Melgani, Associate prof., University of Trento, Italy

Fatiha Merazka, Professor, USTHB, Algeria

Hamdy Mubarak, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Preslav Nakov, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Alexis Neme, Researcher, UPEM, France

Mourad Ouzzani, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Ahmed Rafea, Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech, USA

Hassan Sajjad, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Younes Samihm Researcher, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Nasredine Semmar, Researcher, CEA, France

Violetta Cavalli Sforza, Associate Prof., Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

Khaled Shaalan, Professor, The British University in Dubai, UAE

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

Rudolph Sock, Professor, University of Strasbourg, France

Irina Temnikova, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Stephan Vogel, Researcher, QCRI, Qatar

Marcos Zampieri, Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Organizing committee

Gabor Bella, Univeristy of Trento

Mattia Fumagalli, Univeristy of Trento

Nandu C Nair, Univeristy of Trento

Olha Vozna, University of Trento

Mohammad Gharib, University of Florence

Moaz Reyad, University of Genoa

Osama Hamed, University of Duisburg-Essen

Mohamed Lichouri, Crstdla