CFP: Baltic HLT 2018

NLP research group, Institute of Computer Science (University of Tartu) invites for the submission of proposals for the 8th International Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" (hlt2018.ut.ee), which will take place in Tartu, Estonia on September 27-29, 2018. Its deepest and darkest desire is to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas between researchers, developers, students and users of human language processing technologies. The main topic of interest is the state of human language technologies for the languages spoken in the Baltic states.

This year the program of the conference will include keynote talks, a workshop, oral and poster presentations of your research papers, a conference dinner and social event, sponsor presentations + coffee and cookies! See below for further details, important dates and submission information.

Your research is Baltic enough, if it involves

- languages spoken in the Baltics
- languages spoken around the Baltics
- any similar languages: think rich morphology, no strict word order, more exceptions/exceptions to these exceptions than rules

Topics of interest: NLP and speech technology. Send us your deep multilingual character-level zero-shot end-to-end deep no-data quantum black magic (deep?) neural networks, and your superior linguistic processing pipelines, and let's see who wins, or if they can be friends.

More specifically (including, though not limited to):

Applications:

Machine translation and multilinguality
Human-computer interaction, dialog systems, question answering
Multimodal language processing, image captioning
Speech recognition, synthesis, translation
Information extraction, natural language understanding

Core methodology:
Machine learning and deep learning for language processing
Reinforcement/unsupervised/semi-supervised/transfer learning in NLP
Distributed representation learning and applications
Linguistic knowledge incorporation in machine learning approaches
Tagging, disambiguation, shallow/deep parsing
Ontologies, lexicons, terminology, knowledge representation
(Semi)automatic evaluation metrics and error analysis