Statistical Language and Speech Processing: First International Conference, SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings

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Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward....Pages 1-37
Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access....Pages 38-38
Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification in Hip Hop Lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 39-50
Complementarity of Lexical Cohesion and Speaker Role Information for Story Segmentation of French TV Broadcast News....Pages 51-61
An Investigation of Single-Pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding....Pages 62-70
Predicting Part-of-Speech Tags and Morpho-Syntactic Relations Using Similarity-Based Technique....Pages 71-82
Statistical Error Correction Methods for Domain-Specific ASR Systems....Pages 83-92
Reward Shaping for Statistical Optimisation of Dialogue Management....Pages 93-101
Discriminative Framework for Spoken Tunisian Dialect Understanding....Pages 102-110
Finding the Most Likely Upper Level State Sequence for Hierarchical HMMs....Pages 111-122
Generalization of Discriminative Approaches for Speech Language Understanding in a Multilingual Context....Pages 123-134
Speech/Music Discrimination via Energy Density Analysis....Pages 135-142
Histogram Equalization Using Centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of Background Speakers’ Utterances for Speaker Identification....Pages 143-151
Unsupervised Segmentation for Different Types of Morphological Processes Using Multiple Sequence Alignment....Pages 152-163
Cross-Lingual Random Indexing for Information Retrieval....Pages 164-175
Rational Kernels for Arabic Text Classification....Pages 176-187
Experiments with Semantic Similarity Measures Based on LDA and LSA....Pages 188-199
MDL-Based Models for Transliteration Generation....Pages 200-211
Using Regression for Spectral Estimation of HMMs....Pages 212-223
Iterative Rule Segmentation under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction....Pages 224-235
Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification....Pages 236-247
Context-Aware Correction of Spelling Errors in Hungarian Medical Documents....Pages 248-259
Pronunciation Extraction from Phoneme Sequences through Cross-Lingual Word-to-Phoneme Alignment....Pages 260-272
Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification?....Pages 273-283
Factored Semantic Sequence Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification....Pages 284-296
An Investigation of Code-Switching Attitude Dependent Language Modeling....Pages 297-308
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