TSD2009 - 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

Type: Conference
Conference URL: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2009/home
Main Sponsor: ISCA, CSKI
Main Sponsor's URL: http://www.isca-speech.org, http://www.cski.cz/
Location: Pilsen, Czech Republic
Organizer: Faculty of Applied Sciences University of West Bohemia Plze? (Pilsen), Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno
Chair: Frederick Jelinek
From: September 13, 2009
To: September 18, 2009

The 12th International Conference of Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2009 will be concerned with the topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular:

* corpora, texts and transcription,
* speech analysis, recognition and synthesis,
* their intertwining within NL dialogue systems.

The topics will also 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
* especially parsing problems in spoken texts
* multi-lingual issues
* especially 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