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TSD 2020: Text, Speech, & Dialogue

8-11 Sep 2020
Brno, Czech Republic

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 	TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020
                     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 2020 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
tsd2020@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



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
     Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
     Eneko Agirre, Spain
     Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
     Archna Bhatia, United States
     Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
     Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
     Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
     Karina Evgrafova, Russia
     Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
     Carlos Ferra, Cuba
     Volker Fischer, Germany
     Darja Fiser, Slovenia
     Eleni Galiotou, Greece
     Bjorn Gamback, 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
     Denis Jouvet, France
     Maria Khokhlova, Russia
     Aidar Khusainov, Russia
     Daniil Kocharov, Russia
     Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
     Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
     Valia Kordoni, Germany
     Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
     Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
     Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
     Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia
     Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
     Bernardo Magnini, Italy
     Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine
     Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
     France Mihelic, Slovenia
     Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
     Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
     Hermann Ney, Germany
     Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia
     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 Rychly, Czechia
     Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
     Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands
     Pavel Skrelin, Russia
     Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
     Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
     Georg Stemmer, Germany
     Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia
     Vitomir Struc, Slovenia
     Marko Tadic, Croatia
     Jan Trmal, Czechia
     Tamas Varadi, Hungary
     Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
     Aleksander Wawer, Poland
     Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
     Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
     Marcin Wolinski, Poland
     Alina Wroblewska, Poland
     Victor Zakharov, Russia
     Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia


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

April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts
April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                            demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-11 2020 ...... 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 2020
     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: tsd2020@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2020 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2020


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, Berlin and
Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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