Statistical Language and Speech Processing: 8th International Conference, SLSP 2020, Cardiff, UK, October 14–16, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Book 12379)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2020, held in Cardiff, UK, in October 2020. The 13 full papers presented together with one invited paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They papers cover the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Grapheme-to-Phoneme Transduction for Cross-Language ASR (Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Leanne Rolston, Camille Goudeseune, Gina-Anne Levow, Katrin Kirchhoff)....Pages 3-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Conditioned Text Generation with Transfer for Closed-Domain Dialogue Systems (Stéphane d’Ascoli, Alice Coucke, Francesco Caltagirone, Alexandre Caulier, Marc Lelarge)....Pages 23-34 FacTweet: Profiling Fake News Twitter Accounts (Bilal Ghanem, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Paolo Rosso)....Pages 35-45 Named Entity Recognition for Icelandic: Annotated Corpus and Models (Svanhvít L. Ingólfsdóttir, Ásmundur A. Guðjónsson, Hrafn Loftsson)....Pages 46-57 BERT-Based Sentiment Analysis Using Distillation (Jan Lehečka, Jan àvec, Pavel Ircing, Luboš àmídl)....Pages 58-70 A Cognitive Approach to Parsing with Neural Networks (Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Irena Spasić, Dawn Knight)....Pages 71-84 S-Capade: Spelling Correction Aimed at Particularly Deviant Errors (Emma O’Neill, Robert Young, Elsa Thiaville, Muireann MacCarthy, Julie Carson-Berndsen, Anthony Ventresque)....Pages 85-96 Exploring Parameter Sharing Techniques for Cross-Lingual and Cross-Task Supervision (Matúš Pikuliak, Marián àimko)....Pages 97-108 A Discourse-Informed Approach for Cost-Effective Extractive Summarization (Marta Vicente, Elena Lloret)....Pages 109-121 Towards eXplainable AI in Text Features Engineering for Concept Recognition (Andreas Waldis, Luca Mazzola, Alexander Denzler)....Pages 122-133 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 A Comparison of Metric Learning Loss Functions for End-To-End Speaker Verification (Juan M. Coria, Hervé Bredin, Sahar Ghannay, Sophie Rosset)....Pages 137-148 ANN-MLP Classifier of Native and Nonnative Speakers Using Speech Rhythm Cues (Ghania Droua-Hamdani)....Pages 149-156 Deep Variational Metric Learning for Transfer of Expressivity in Multispeaker Text to Speech (Ajinkya Kulkarni, Vincent Colotte, Denis Jouvet)....Pages 157-168 Generative Adversarial Network-Based Semi-supervised Learning for Pathological Speech Classification (Nam H. Trinh, Darragh O’Brien)....Pages 169-181 Back Matter ....Pages 183-183 This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2013, held in Tarragona, Spain, in July 2013. The 24 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the fields of computational language and speech processing and the statistical methods that are currently in use.