**DEADLINE EXTENSION: June 9, 2017**:
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing (SCNLP) at EMNLP 2017
September 7, 2017, Copenhagen Denmark
::Due to several requests, we are extending the submission deadline until June 9, 2017. We're looking forward to your participation!::
SCNLP aims to unite the automatic speech recognition (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. 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 envision SCNLP as a platform to promote collaboration between the ASR and NLP communities and to seek ways to lower the barrier of entry for researchers interested in working in the exciting intersection between Speech and Natural Language Processing.
Important Dates
February 2017: First call for workshop papers
June 9 2017: Workshop papers due
June 30 2017: Notification of acceptance
July 14 2017: Camera-ready due
September 7 2017: Workshop date
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Speech translation
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken query reformulation for Question/Answering systems
Word-sense disambiguation for speech transcripts
Information extraction on speech transcripts (combining textual corpora with speech corpora)
Domain adaptation (Adapting textual NLP training data to speech-centric tasks)
ASR evaluation for NLP
ASR error modeling
Speech segmentation for NLP
Punctuation insertion
Disfluency detection and correction
NLP with ASR lattices/confusion networks
Discourse and Speech Processing
Joint ASR/NLP modeling
Program Committee
We are excited to have a strong program committee consisting of research leaders spanning the Speech and NLP communities.
For more information, please visit our website here:
http://speechnlp.github.io/2017/
We look forward to seeing you!
Nicholas Ruiz (Interactions, USA)
Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions, USA)
scnlp {AT} interactions.com