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This book provides an extensive examination of state-of-the-art methods in multimodal retrieval, generation, and the pioneering field of retrieval-augmented generation. The work is rooted in the domain of Transformer-based models, exploring the complexities of blending and interpreting the intricate connections between text and images. The authors present cutting-edge theories, methodologies, and frameworks dedicated to multimodal retrieval and generation, aiming to furnish readers with a comprehensive understanding of the current state and future prospects of multimodal AI. As such, the book is a crucial resource for anyone interested in delving into the intricacies of multimodal retrieval and generation. Serving as a bridge to mastering and leveraging advanced AI technologies in this field, the book is designed for students, researchers, practitioners, and AI aficionados alike, offering the tools needed to expand the horizons of what can be achieved in multimodal artificial intelligence.

The book'Text Mining Approaches for Biomedical Data'delves into the fascinating realm of text mining in healthcare. It provides an in-depth understanding of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are revolutionizing healthcare research and patient care. The book covers a wide range of topics such as mining textual data in biomedical and health databases, analyzing literature and clinical trials, and demonstrating various applications of text mining in healthcare. This book is a guide for effectively representing textual data using vectors, knowledge graphs, and other advanced techniques. It covers various text mining applications, building descriptive and predictive models, and evaluating them. Additionally, it includes building machine learning models using textual data, covering statistical and deep learning approaches. This book is designed to be a valuable reference for computer science professionals, researchers in the biomedical field, and clinicians. It provides practical guidance and promotes collaboration between different disciplines. Therefore, it is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the intersection of text mining and healthcare.

This book presents new theories and working models in the areas of data analytics and learning. The papers included in this volume were presented at the second International Conference on Data Analytics and Learning (DAL 2022), which was organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Alva's Institute of Engineering & Technology, Moodbidri, Mangalore, Karnataka, India in association with the Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka, India. The areas covered include pattern recognition, image processing, deep learning, computer vision, data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and intelligent systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2024, held in Athens, Greece, during August 30-31, 2024. The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions addressing topics like: document analysis and understanding; retrieval and VQA; layout analysis; document classification; OCR correction and NLP; recognition systems; and historical documents.

This two-volume set LNAI 13995 and LNAI 13996 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2023, held in Phuket, Thailand, during July 24–26, 2023. The 65 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers of the 2 volume-set are organized in the following topical sections: Case-Based Reasoning and Machine Comprehension; Computer Vision; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Knowledge Integration and Analysis; Speech and Text Processing; and Resource Management and Optimization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in May 2019. The 24 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Speech Processing; Language Resources and Tools; Computational Semantics; Emotions, Decisions and Opinions; Digital Humanities; Evaluation; and Legal Aspects.

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2022), held at Hanoi in Vietnam. It includes peer reviewed high quality articles on Intelligent System and Networks. It brings together professionals and researchers in the area and presents a platform for exchange of ideas and to foster future collaboration. The topics covered in this book include- Foundations of Computer Science; Computational Intelligence Language and speech processing; Software Engineering Software development methods; Wireless Communications Signal Processing for Communications; Electronics track IoT and Sensor Systems Embedded Systems; etc. ​

This volume constitutes the selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2021, hed in Varanasi, India, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 61 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 593 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on advanced network technologies and intelligent computing. ;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2021, which was held virtually in November 2021. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​​AI techniques and applications; data analytics and technologies; data mining and image processing; machine & statistical learning.

This book focuses on data and how modern business firms use social data, specifically Online Social Networks (OSNs) incorporated as part of the infrastructure for a number of emerging applications such as personalized recommendation systems, opinion analysis, expertise retrieval, and computational advertising. This book identifies how in such applications, social data offers a plethora of benefits to enhance the decision making process.This book highlights that business intelligence applications are more focused on structured data; however, in order to understand and analyse the social big data, there is a need to aggregate data from various sources and to present it in a plausible format. Big Social Data (BSD) exhibit all the typical properties of big data: wide physical distribution, diversity of formats, non-standard data models, independently-managed and heterogeneous semantics but even further valuable with marketing opportunities.The book provides a review of the current state-of-the-art approaches for big social data analytics as well as to present dissimilar methods to infer value from social data. The book further examines several areas of research that benefits from the propagation of the social data. In particular, the book presents various technical approaches that produce data analytics capable of handling big data features and effective in filtering out unsolicited data and inferring a value. These approaches comprise advanced technical solutions able to capture huge amounts of generated data, scrutinise the collected data to eliminate unwanted data, measure the quality of the inferred data, and transform the amended data for further data analysis. Furthermore, the book presents solutions to derive knowledge and sentiments from BSD and to provide social data classification and prediction. The approaches in this book also incorporate several technologies such as semantic discovery, sentiment analysis, affective computing and machine learning.This book has additional special feature enriched with numerous illustrations such as tables, graphs and charts incorporating advanced visualisation tools in accessible an attractive display.

This two-volume set LNCS 12035 and 12036 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020.• The 55 full papers presented together with 8 reproducibility papers, 46 short papers, 10 demonstration papers, 12 invited CLEF papers, 7 doctoral consortium papers, 4 workshop papers, and 3 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 457 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Part I: deep learning I; entities; evaluation; recommendation; information extraction; deep learning II; retrieval; multimedia; deep learning III; queries; IR – general; question answering, prediction, and bias; and deep learning IV. Part II: reproducibility papers; short papers; demonstration papers; CLEF organizers lab track; doctoral consortium papers; workshops; and tutorials.•Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference was held virtually.

This book gathers papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2019), which was held in Qingdao, China, from 1st to 3rd, November 2019. Since it was established, in 2006, the ICGEC conference series has been devoted to new approaches with a focus on evolutionary computing. Today, it is a forum for the researchers and professionals in all areas of computational intelligence including evolutionary computing, machine learning, soft computing, data mining, multimedia and signal processing, swarm intelligence and security. The book appeals to policymakers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, school teachers, and other professionals in the learning industry, and further and continuing education.

This book presents a broad range of deep-learning applications related to vision, natural language processing, gene expression, arbitrary object recognition, driverless cars, semantic image segmentation, deep visual residual abstraction, brain–computer interfaces, big data processing, hierarchical deep learning networks as game-playing artefacts using regret matching, and building GPU-accelerated deep learning frameworks. Deep learning, an advanced level of machine learning technique that combines class of learning algorithms with the use of many layers of nonlinear units, has gained considerable attention in recent times. Unlike other books on the market, this volume addresses the challenges of deep learning implementation, computation time, and the complexity of reasoning and modeling different type of data. As such, it is a valuable and comprehensive resource for engineers, researchers, graduate students and Ph.D. scholars.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2019, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2019. Due to the problems/protests in Hong Kong, WISE 2019 was postponed from November 26-30, 2019 until January 19-22, 2020. The 50 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: blockchain and crowdsourcing; machine learning; deep learning; recommender systems, data mining; web-based applications; entity linkage and disambiguation; graph learning; knowledge graphs; graph mining; and text mining.

Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they're also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. With this updated second edition, you'll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch.If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to get started as a data scientist. Today's messy glut of data holds answers to questions no one's even thought to ask. This book provides you with the know-how to dig those answers out.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019. The 27 full and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were automatically rejected without being reviewed). The papers are organized in topical sections on general topics of data analysis; natural language processing; social network analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; and analysis of dynamic behavior through event data.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2019, held in Shenzhen, China, in July 2019. The 34 full papers and 1 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. In this book a lively exchange and collaborations between the growing international smart health research scholars and communities has been introduced, and to advance our understanding about the technical, practical, economic, behavioral, and social issues center on smart health. The selected papers are organized into the following topics: Precision Medicine and Telehealth, Social, Psychosocial and Behavioral Determinants of Health, Data science, Analytics, Clinical and Business Intelligence, Clinical Informatics and Clinician Engagement.

This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2018), held at Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam. The event brought together researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications in various engineering disciplines. These proceedings are divided into two volumes. Covering broad areas of information and decision sciences, with papers exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of data-intensive computing, data mining, evolutionary computation, knowledge management and networks, sensor networks, signal processing, wireless networks, protocols and architectures, this volume is a valuable resource for postgraduate students in various engineering disciplines.

The two-volume set LNCS 10761 + 10762 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2017 conference which took place in Budapest, Hungary, in April 2017. The total of 90 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In addition, the proceedings contain 4 invited papers.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: general; morphology and text segmentation; syntax and parsing; word sense disambiguation; reference and coreference resolution; named entity recognition; semantics and text similarity; information extraction; speech recognition; applications to linguistics and the humanities. Part II: sentiment analysis; opinion mining; author profiling and authorship attribution; social network analysis; machine translation; text summarization; information retrieval and text classification; practical applications.

This two-volume set (CCIS 873 and CCIS 874) constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, ISICA 2017, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2017.The 101 full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. This first volume is organized in topical sections on neural networks and statistical learning: neural architecture search, transfer of knowledge; evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization: optimal control and design, hybrid methods; data mining: association rule learning, data management platforms; Cloud computing and multiagent systems: service models, Cloud engineering; everywhere connectivity: IoT solutions, wireless sensor networks.

This two-volume set (LNAI 11055 and LNAI 11056) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2018, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2018 The 98 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The conference focuses on knowledge engineering and semantic web, social network analysis, recommendation methods and recommender systems, agents and multi-agent systems, text processing and information retrieval, data mining methods and applications, decision support and control systems, sensor networks and internet of things, as well as computer vision techniques.

The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016. The total of 89 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The book also contains 4 invited papers and a memorial paper on Adam Kilgarriff's Legacy to Computational Linguistics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: In memoriam of Adam Kilgarriff; general formalisms; embeddings, language modeling, and sequence labeling; lexical resources and terminology extraction; morphology and part-of-speech tagging; syntax and chunking; named entity recognition; word sense disambiguation and anaphora resolution; semantics, discourse, and dialog. Part II: machine translation and multilingualism; sentiment analysis, opinion mining, subjectivity, and social media; text classification and categorization; information extraction; and applications.

The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016. The total of 89 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The book also contains 4 invited papers and a memorial paper on Adam Kilgarriff's Legacy to Computational Linguistics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: In memoriam of Adam Kilgarriff; general formalisms; embeddings, language modeling, and sequence labeling; lexical resources and terminology extraction; morphology and part-of-speech tagging; syntax and chunking; named entity recognition; word sense disambiguation and anaphora resolution; semantics, discourse, and dialog. Part II: machine translation and multilingualism; sentiment analysis, opinion mining, subjectivity, and social media; text classification and categorization; information extraction; and applications.

Data has increased due to the growing use of web applications and communication devices. It is necessary to develop new techniques of managing data in order to ensure adequate usage. Modern Technologies for Big Data Classification and Clustering is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on handling large data sets with conventional data mining and provide information about the new technologies developed for the management of large data. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as text and web data analytics, risk analysis, and opinion mining, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on various concepts of big data analytics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2017. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: recommendation; understanding users; NLP for IR; IR and applications; query processing and analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2017.The 7 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. In addition, this volume contains the results of 10 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The papers address all aspects of information access in any modality and language and cover a broad range of topics in the field of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

This book constitutes the tutorial lectures of the 6th European Business Intelligence and Big Data Summer School, eBISS 2016, held in Tours, France, in July 2016. Tutorials were given by renowned experts and covered recent and various aspects of Business Intelligence and Big Data processing, including analytics on graph data, machine translation, pattern mining, scalability, and energy consumption. This volume contains the corresponding lecture notes of the summer school.

This two volume set LNCS 10177 and 10178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, held in Suzhou, China, in March 2017. The 73 full papers, 9 industry papers, 4 demo papers and 3 tutorials were carefully selected from a total of 300 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: semantic web and knowledge management; indexing and distributed systems; network embedding; trajectory and time series data processing; data mining; query processing and optimization; text mining; recommendation; security, privacy, senor and cloud; social network analytics; map matching and spatial keywords; query processing and optimization; search and information retrieval; string and sequence processing; stream date processing; graph and network data processing; spatial databases; real time data processing; big data; social networks and graphs.

This two volume set LNCS 10041 and LNCS 10042 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2016, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2016. The 39 full papers and 31 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Social Network Data Analysis; Recommender Systems; Topic Modeling; Data Diversity; Data Similarity; Context-Aware Recommendation; Prediction; Big Data Processing; Cloud Computing; Event Detection; Data Mining; Sentiment Analysis; Ranking in Social Networks; Microblog Data Analysis; Query Processing; Spatial and Temporal Data; Graph Theory; Non-Traditional Environments; and Special Session on Data Quality and Trust in Big Data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016, held in Salford, UK, in June 2016. The 17 full papers, 22 short papers, and 13 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2016, held in Aberdeen, UK, in July 2016. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The topics range from natural languages which are controlled, to controlled languages with a natural language flavour; and from more theoretical results to interfaces, reasoning engines and real-life applications of CNLs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, held in Tomar, Portugal, in July 2016. The 23 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: language applications, language processing, and language resources.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2016, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, in September 2016. The 62 papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2016, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in October 2016. The 11 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover topics such as anaphora and coreference resolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering; computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data mining and semantic web; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and dictionaries; machine translation; multimodal technologies; natural language understanding; neural representation of speech and language; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; parsing; part-of-speech tagging; question and answering systems; semantic role labeling; speaker identification and verification; speech and language generation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech transcription; speech correction; spoken dialogue systems; term extraction; text categorization; test summarization; user modeling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2016, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016. The 53 regular papers and 15 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. Pricai covers a wide range of topics such as AI foundations; applications of AI; semantic web; information retrieval; constraint satisfaction; multimodal interaction; knowledge representation; social networks; ad-hoc networks; algorithms; software architecture; machine learning; and smart modeling and simulation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2016, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2016. The 58 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The topics range from theoretical topics for classification, clustering, association rule and pattern mining to specific data mining methods for the different multimedia data types such as image mining, text mining, video mining and Web mining.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2015, held in Beijing, China, in December 2015. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover topics such as user modeling, opinion mining, user behavior, and crowd sourcing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th CCF Conference, NLPCC 2015, held in Nanchang, China, in October 2015. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals on language computing; applications on language computing; NLP for search technology and ads; web mining; knowledge acquisition and information extraction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2015, held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 2015.The 14 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on big data analysis, information and knowledge management, business data analytics and visualization, networked information resources, and business data analytics in astronomy and sciences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2015, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2015. The 67 papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

This two-volume set (LNAI 9329 and LNAI 9330) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2014, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015. The 110 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as multi-agent systems; social networks and NLP; sentiment analysis; computational intelligence and games; ontologies and information extraction; formal methods and simulation; neural networks, SMT and MIS; collective intelligence in Web systems – Web systems analysis; computational swarm intelligence; cooperative strategies for decision making and optimization; advanced networking and security technologies; IT in biomedicine; collective computational intelligence in educational context; science intelligence and data analysis; computational intelligence in financial markets; ensemble learning; big data mining and searching.

The two volumes LNCS 9041 and 9042 constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2015, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2015. The total of 95 full papers presented was carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on grammar formalisms and lexical resources; morphology and chunking; syntax and parsing; anaphora resolution and word sense disambiguation; semantics and dialogue; machine translation and multilingualism; sentiment analysis and emotion detection; opinion mining and social network analysis; natural language generation and text summarization; information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction; text classification; speech processing; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2015, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in June 2015.The 15 regular papers and 12 short papers presented together with 8 papers from the Graduate Student Symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as agents, uncertainty and games; AI applications; NLP, text and social media mining; data mining and machine learning.

The two volumes LNCS 9041 and 9042 constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2015, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2015. The total of 95 full papers presented was carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on grammar formalisms and lexical resources; morphology and chunking; syntax and parsing; anaphora resolution and word sense disambiguation; semantics and dialogue; machine translation and multilingualism; sentiment analysis and emotion detection; opinion mining and social network analysis; natural language generation and text summarization; information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction; text classification; speech processing; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2015, held in Budapest, Hungary, in November 2015. The 26 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: anaphora and coreference resolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering; computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data mining and semantic Web; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and dictionaries; machine translation; multimodal technologies; natural language understanding; neural representation of speech and language; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; parsing; part-of-speech tagging; question-answering systems; semantic role labelling; speaker identification and verification; speech and language generation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech transcription; spelling correction; spoken dialogue systems; term extraction; text categorisation; text summarisation; and user modeling.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and information sharing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2015, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in November 2015. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 was'Back to the roots', focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary cooperations and studies of the phenomenon. Context, context modeling and context comprehension are central topics in linguistics, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, computer science, art, law, organizational sciences, cognitive science, psychology, etc. and are also essential for the effectiveness of modern, complex and distributed software systems. CONTEXT 2015 embedded also a Doctoral Symposium, and three workshops; Smart University 3.0; CATI: Context Awareness and Tactile Design for Mobile Interaction; and SHAPES 3.0: The Shape of Things.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2014. The 70 papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2015, held in Harbin, China, in January 2015. The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to intelligent computation in Big Data era, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms, natural language processing, image processing, MapReduce, social network.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2013. The 65 papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. The main topics of this year's conference was corpora, texts and transcription, speech analysis, recognition and synthesis, and their intertwining within NL dialogue systems. The topics also included speech recognition, corpora and language resources, speech and spoken language generation, tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech, semantic processing of text and speech, integrating applications of text and speech processing, as well as automatic dialogue systems, and multimodal techniques and modelling.