21.432 Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008)

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 432.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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         Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:33:31 +0000
         From: TSD 2008 <tsd2008_at_tsdconference.org>
         Subject: TSD 2008 Preliminary announcement

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                TSD 2008 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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Eleventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2008)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the
former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings
of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

TOPICS

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

      text corpora and tagging
      transcription problems in spoken corpora
      sense disambiguation
      links between text and speech oriented systems
      parsing issues
      parsing problems in spoken texts
      multi-lingual issues
      multi-lingual dialogue systems
      information retrieval and information extraction
      text/topic summarization
      machine translation
      semantic networks and ontologies
      semantic web
      speech modeling
      speech segmentation
      speech recognition
      search in speech for IR and IE
      text-to-speech synthesis
      dialogue systems
      development of dialogue strategies
      prosody in dialogues
      emotions and personality modeling
      user modeling
      knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
      assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
      applied systems and software
      facial animation
      visual speech synthesis

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
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