This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International
Conference 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; 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.  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.