Statistical Language and Speech Processing

Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward.- Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information.- Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification in Hip Hop Lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models.- Complementarity of Lexical Cohesion and Speaker Role Information for Story Segmentation of French TV Broadcast News.- An Investigation of Single-Pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding.- Predicting Part-of-Speech Tags and Morpho-Syntactic Relations Using
Similarity-Based Technique.- Statistical Error Correction Methods for Domain-Specific ASR Systems.- Reward Shaping for Statistical Optimisation of Dialogue Management.- Discriminative Framework for Spoken Tunisian Dialect Understanding.- Histogram Equalization Using Centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of Background Speakers’ Utterances for Speaker Identification.- Cross-Lingual Random Indexing for Information Retrieval.- Rational Kernels for Arabic Text Classification.- MDL-Based Models for Transliteration Generation.- Using Regression for Spectral Estimation of HMMs.- Iterative Rule Segmentation under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction.- Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification.- Context-Aware Correction of Spelling Errors in Hungarian Medical Documents.- Pronunciation Extraction from Phoneme Sequences through Cross-Lingual Word-to-Phoneme Alignment.- Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification?.- Factored Semantic Sequence Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification.- An Investigation of Code-Switching Attitude Dependent Language Modeling.