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TSD 2020 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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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 SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to:

April 27 2020 ............ Submission of full papers


NO CHANGES IN SUBMISSION DUE TO COVID-19
CONFERENCE WILL BE ORGANIZED WITH REMOTE PARTICIPATION

Even though the COVID-19 spread is kept in limits in the Czech
Republic, government regulations influence travelling possibilities.
As the situation in September cannot be easily predicted, the TSD 2020
PC members have decided to choose the virtual TSD 2020 conference
(with substantially reduced fees) as the default option.

The actual organization of the TSD 2020 conference in September is
thus not at risk and the preparation process continues without changes
regarding the publication and submissions - Springer publication is
already approved.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden

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: virtual conference running from Brno, Czech Republic


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be organized with remote participation using video
conference tools. 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.

The registration fee has been substantially reduced:

Student: Remote participation, early discount
-- CZK 3000 (approx. EUR 115)

Full participant: Remote participation, early discount
-- CZK 5000 (approx. EUR 190)


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted
will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2020 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.
Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must
use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied
automatically.

The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all
required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper
format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2020/paper_instr.html).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


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. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


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, fake news 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.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, USA
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
Karina Evgrafova, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
Carlos Ferrer, 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, USA
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


IMPORTANT DATES

April 27 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

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - please submit your abstract as soon as possible.
For the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
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/


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.