Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

May 12th, 2018 University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250 USA

http://www.mascsll.org/2018

The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning will be hosted at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on May 12th, 2018. The Student Colloquium is intended to bring together students taking 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 discussion.

Students are encouraged to submit abstracts describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects, including previously published results and negative results. Student research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect of human language, including speech and learning, from all areas of computer science, linguistics, engineering, 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 talks.

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

Abstract Submission Details

Abstracts should be no more than one page, not including references. Abstracts should conform to ACL style guidelines. LaTeX and Word style files, along with a style guide, are available at the 2018 ACL call for papers (LaTeX, Microsoft Word). Abstract reviewing will not be blind. Please include all names and affiliations in the abstract. Submit your abstract online via the 2018 MASC-SLL EasyChair site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mascsll2018).

Relevant topics include the following.

* 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): April 16
* Decisions announced: April 21
* Registration opens: April 10
* Registration closes: May 6
* Colloquium: May 12

For more information

If you have questions or need more information, see http://www.mascsll.org/2018 or send email to the 2018 MASC-SLL organizers via organizers@mascsll.org.