Statistical Language and Speech Processing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2017,held in Le Mans, France, in October 2017.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers cover topics such as anaphora and conference resolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering; computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data mining and semanticweb; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and dictionaries; machinetranslation; multimodal technologies; natural language understanding;neural representation of speech and language; opinion mining andsentiment analysis; parsing; part-of-speech tagging; question andanswering systems; semantic role labeling; speaker identification andverification; speech and language generation; speech recognition; speechsynthesis; speech transcription; speech correction; spoken dialoguesystems; term extraction; text categorization; test summarization; usermodeling.  They are organized in the following sections: language and information extraction; post-processing and applications of automatic transcriptions; speech paralinguistics and synthesis; speech recognition: modeling and resources.