Call JEP/TALN Demonstrations

The Greater Paris Area laboratories working on speech and natural language processing (written, spoken and signed languages) are jointly organizing the fifth joint JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference at INALCO (inner Paris) on

July 4-8, 2016

For the fifth time, after Nancy (2002), Fez (2004), Avignon (2008), Grenoble (2012), AFCP (the French Association for Spoken Communication) and ATALA (the French Association for Natural Language Processing) are jointly organizing their main conferences to gather in one venue the research communities of written, spoken and signed language processing.

This edition gathers:

• the 31st Speech Research Days (Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - JEP),
• the 23rd French Conference on Natural Language Processing (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN),
• the 18th Student Research Meeting on Natural Language Processing (Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues - RÉCITAL).

Thematics

The organizers are happy to invite participants to present software or prototype demonstration which rely on Natural Language Processing approaches for text and speech.

Software demonstration relying on low-resourced languages, signed language or several modalities are particularly encouraged.

Types of submissions

The candidates are invited to proposed 2 pages papers conformed to the conference style. The paper must describe the application field, the used methods and the technical constraints, but also mention the dedicated usage and targeted users. Screenshots, links to an online demonstrator or a video can be provided.

Submissions in English are acceptable if one of the authors is not a French speaker. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Selection criteria

The participants will be selected by the organization committee independently of the usual scientific selection process. Selection criteria will be the relevance of the software regarding the thematics of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016.

Submission procedure

Submitted papers must conform to the official guidelines and style as described in the style file (https://jep-taln2016.limsi.fr/styles/jeptaln2016-v2.zip) and must be in PDF format. The anonymisation is not required.

The papers must be uploaded on the submission website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jep2016 (track "JEP-TALN 2016 System Demonstration").