28.1205, Calls: Comp Ling, Phonetics, Text/Corpus Ling/Czech Republic

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Subject: 28.1205, Calls: Comp Ling, Phonetics, Text/Corpus Ling/Czech Republic

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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:57:23
From: Roumana Strapkova [tsd2017 at tsdconference.org]
Subject: 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

 
Full Title: 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue 
Short Title: TSD 2017 

Date: 27-Aug-2017 - 31-Aug-2017
Location: Praha, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Romana Strapkova
Meeting Email: tsd2017 at tsdconference.org
Web Site: http://www.tsdconference.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers
in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD
proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as
DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.

Invited speakers: 

- Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA)
- Lucia  Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK)
- Rico Sennrich (The University  of Edinburgh, UK)
- other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the
conference have been asked to give their  respective pieces of speech

TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in  all
major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.

TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final
reviewers discussion.

TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the
Czech Republic.

The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and
Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles
University.

TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all
meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290
EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants.

Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation
option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in
the nearby dormitories.

TSD Series:

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno,
and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics
and Physics of the Charles University.

The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017
satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well.

Venue:

- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University
- Mala Strana Campus - ''S'' Building
- Malostranske nam. 2/25
- CZ-118 00 Praha 1

Accommodation:

- Orea Hotel Pyramida
- Belohorska 24
- CZ-169 00 Praha 6


Call for Papers:

Important Dates:

March 31, 2017:  Deadline for submission of contributions
May 10, 2017: Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2017: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
August 27-31, 2017: TSD2017 conference date

The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content.
Printed books will be available for extra fee.

Topics:

Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited
to):

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, emotion and personality modelling).

Programme Committee: 

All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages:
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees

Official Language:

The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues
related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are
strongly encouraged.

Conference Fees:

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's
status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference
proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and
dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it
this time.

Full participant:

- early registration by May 31, 2017 -  CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR)
- late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR)
- on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR)

Student (reduced):

- early registration by May 31, 2017 -  CZK  8 000 (approx. 290 EUR)
- late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK  8 700 (approx. 322 EUR)
- on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR)

Dormitory accommodation: 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast)

Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly
change in the future. 

Contact:

The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:

Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2017 at tsdconference.org
Phone: (+420) 736 664 500




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