TSD 2011 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

Highlights
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Submission deadline: April 8, 2011
Conference duration: September 1 – 5, 2011
Conference location: Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Published by: Springer-Verlag
Conference web page: http://www.tsdconference.org/


Topics
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Keynote topic: Integrating Modern Web with Speech and Language Technologies.

Conference topics (new for 2011):

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

Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries),
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing),

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

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).


Keynote Speakers
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For the upcoming TSD, the following outstanding set of invited speakers with various expertise covering speech modeling, acoustic-phonetic decoding, dialogue systems, and semantics agreed to give their respective pieces of speech:

Hynek Hermansky — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: Active listening in machine recognition of speech.

Sergey Kuznetsov — Head of the Institute for Research in Philology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia: Logico-semantic Text Processing for Machine Translation, Web Search, and Speech Synthesis.

Mark Epstein — Google and IBM: Topic not yet specified.


Contact
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Ms Jana Vlčková, TSD2011 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd@kiv.zcu.cz
Skype: jane.vlckova
Phone: +420 723 081 547