TSD 2020 - Twenty-third International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

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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/
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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
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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.
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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-AT-tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
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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.
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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
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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.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised.
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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.
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
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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-AT-tsdconference.org
The official TSD 2020 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2020
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LOCATION
Brno is 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).