The submission deadline is extended to 31 December 2017
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After the success of ICNLSP 2015 (www.icnlsp.org/icnlsp2015), the first edition, which had been organized in 2015 in Algiers by the Computational Linguistics Department of the Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique pour le Développement de la Langue Arabe, the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018 will be held in Algiers on April 25th and 26th 2018,

As ICNLSP 2015, ICNLSP 2018 is funded by Algerian ministry of higher education and scientific research.

ICNLSP 2018 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE (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, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.

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.

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar

Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France

Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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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

SUBMISSION
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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.

Papers must be prepared under the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligent – Springer-Verlag format.

Long papers (from 12 to 15 pages) as well as short papers (from 6 to 8 pages) are welcome.

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
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Dr. Mourad Abbas
General Chair
Computational Linguistics department, crstdla
email: m_abbas04@yahoo.fr
icnlsp2018@gmail.com

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