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TSD 2018: Text, Speech, & Dialogue

11-14 Sep 2018
Brno, Czech Republic

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 	TSD 2018 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS
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Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail
tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

     Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
     text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
     specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

     Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
     speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
     alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
     acoustic and language modelling)

     Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
     (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
     disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
     credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
     authorship attribution)

     Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
     fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

     Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
     extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
     knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
     disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

     Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
     (machine translation, natural language understanding,
     question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

     Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
     question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
     dialogues)

     Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
     animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
     and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

     Kenneth Church, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
     Eneko Agirre, Spain
     Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
     Paul Cook, Australia
     Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
     Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
     Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
     Karina Evgrafova, Russia
     Darja Fiser, Slovenia
     Eleni Galiotou, Greece
     Bj??rn Gamb??ck, Norway
     Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
     Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
     Louise Guthrie, USA
     Tino Haderlein, Germany
     Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
     Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
     Yannis Haralambous, France
     Hynek Hermansky, USA
     Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
     Ales Horak, Czech Republic
     Eduard Hovy, USA
     Maria Khokhlova, Russia
     Daniil Kocharov, Russia
     Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
     Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
     Valia Kordoni, Germany
     Pavel Kr??l, Czech Republic
     Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
     Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
     Bernardo Magnini, Italy
     Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
     France Mihelic, Slovenia
     Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
     Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
     Hermann Ney, Germany
     Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
     Karel Pala, Czech Republic
     Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
     Maciej Piasecki, Poland
     Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
     James Pustejovsky, USA
     German Rigau, Spain
     Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
     Anna Rumshisky, USA
     Milan Rusko, Slovakia
     Pavel Rychl??, Czechia
     Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
     Pavel Skrelin, Russia
     Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
     Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
     Stefan Steidl, Germany
     Georg Stemmer, Germany
     Marko Tadic, Croatia
     Tamas Varadi, Hungary
     Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
     Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
     Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
     Marcin Wolinski, Poland
     Victor Zakharov, Russia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
the issues raised.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                            demonstrations sent to the authors
September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

     Ales Horak, TSD 2018
     Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
     Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
     phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
     fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
     email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich,
and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
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