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2017 MASC-SLL Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
May 6th, 2017 George Washington University, Washington, DC
http://www.mascsll.org/2017

The sixth annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning will be hosted at the George Washington University (Washington, DC) on May 6th, 2017. The Student Colloquium is intended to bring together students studying computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can introduce their research to the local student community, give and receive feedback, and engage each other in collaborative discussions.

Students are encouraged to submit 1-page abstracts describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects, including previously published results as well as negative results. Student research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect of human language (speech, text, other modalities, linguistics, neuroscience, information science, and related fields) is welcome. Submissions and presentations must be made by students or postdocs. Accepted submissions will be presented as either posters or oral talks. See http://www.mascsll.org/2017/call-for-papers for abstract submission details. The submission deadline is March 31.

There will be no registration fee for the colloquium. Students and postdocs are encouraged to consult with their supervisors about potential reimbursement of travel expenses.

Topics
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of human language processing

Computational phonology and morphology

Discourse and pragmatics

Evaluation

Information retrieval and question answering

Knowledge base population and machine reading

Language acquisition

Language disorders

Language generation and summarization

Language resources and annotation

Lexical semantics and ontologies

Machine learning

Machine translation and multilingual processing

NLP for the Web and social media

Semantics

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Speaker variability

Speech recognition and synthesis

Syntax and parsing

Text and document classification

Text mining and information extraction

Important Dates

Submission deadline (abstracts): March 31

Decisions announced: April 10

Registration opens: April 10

Program schedule released: April 15

Registration closes: May 1

Colloquium: May 6

For more information
If you have questions or need more information, you can send email to the 2017 MASC-SLL organizers at organizers@mascsll.org.