Statistical Language and Speech Processing [electronic resource] : First International Conference, SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Adrian-Horia Dediu, Carlos Martín-Vide, Ruslan Mitkov, Bianca Truthe.

Deep Learning of Representations: Looking Forward -- Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information -- Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification in Hip Hop Lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models -- Complementarity of Lexical Cohesion and Speaker Role Information for Story Segmentation of French TV Broadcast News -- An Investigation of Single-Pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding -- Predicting Part-of-Speech Tags and Morpho-Syntactic Relations Using Similarity-Based Technique -- Statistical Error Correction Methods for Domain-Specific ASR Systems -- Reward Shaping for Statistical Optimisation of Dialogue Management -- Discriminative Framework for Spoken Tunisian Dialect Understanding -- Histogram Equalization Using Centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of Background Speakers' Utterances for Speaker Identification -- Cross-Lingual Random Indexing for Information Retrieval -- Rational Kernels for Arabic Text Classification -- MDL-Based Models for Transliteration Generation -- Using Regression for Spectral Estimation of HMMs -- Iterative Rule Segmentation under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction -- Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification -- Context-Aware Correction of Spelling Errors in Hungarian Medical Documents -- Pronunciation Extraction from Phoneme Sequences through Cross-Lingual Word-to-Phoneme Alignment -- Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification? -- Factored Semantic Sequence Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification -- An Investigation of Code-Switching Attitude Dependent Language Modeling.