29.326, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling/Czech Republic

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:11:27
From: Marie Stará [nlpassist at aurora.fi.muni.cz]
Subject: 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue

 
Full Title: 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue 
Short Title: TSD 2018 

Date: 11-Sep-2018 - 14-Sep-2018
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Aleš Horák
Meeting Email: tsd2018 at tsdconference.org
Web Site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018/ 

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

Call Deadline: 22-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

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.

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: 

Hotel Continental
Kounicova 6
CZ-602 00 Brno
Czech Republic

Program Committee:

All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages:
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018/conf_comms.html

Invited Speakers:

The invited speakers are listed on the conference web pages:
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018/conf_inv_sp.html

Conference Program:

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the
issues raised.

Official Language:

The official language of the conference is English.


Call for Papers:

Important Dates:

March 15 2018: Submission of abstracts
March 22 2018: Submission of full papers
May 16 2018: Notification of acceptance
May 31 2018: Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2018: Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2018: Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the
authors
September 11-14 2018: 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.

Call for Satellite Workshop Proposals

The TSD 2018 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
tsd2018 at 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.

Address:

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2018
    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: tsd2018 at tsdconference.org




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