Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024)             

Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024                    

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

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. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.

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.

Call for satellite workshop proposals:

https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html

The TSD 2024 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 isa subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference.  The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings.

Important dates:

• April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts
• April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers
• June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance
• June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
• August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
• August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors
• September 9-13 2024 ....... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

The official language of the conference is English.

List of 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, large language models, 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, fake news 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.

Committees

Program Committee

• Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)   
• Rodrigo Agerri, Spain   
• Eneko Agirre, Spain   
• Vladimir Benko, Slovakia   
• Archna Bhatia, USA   
• Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic   
• Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia   
• Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic   
• Karina Evgrafova, Russia   
• Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine   
• Volker Fischer, Germany   
• Darja Fiser, Slovenia   
• Lucie Flek, Germany   
• Bjorn Gamback, Norway   
• Radovan Garabik, Slovakia   
• Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico   
• Louise Guthrie, USA   
• 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   
• Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic 
• Maria Khokhlova, Russia   
• Aidar Khusainov, Russia   
• Daniil Kocharov, Russia   
• Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic   
• Valia Kordoni, Germany   
• Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia   
• Pavel Kral, Czech Republic   
• Siegfried Kunzmann, USA   
• Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia   
• Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia   
• Bernardo Magnini, Italy   
• Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic 
• Roman Moucek, Czech Republic   
• Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland   
• Hermann Ney, Germany   
• Joakim Nivre, Sweden   
• Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia   
• Maciej Piasecki, Poland   
• Josef Psutka, Czech Republic   
• James Pustejovsky, USA   
• German Rigau, Spain   
• Paolo Rosso, Spain   
• Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands   
• Anna Rumshisky, USA   
• Milan Rusko, Slovakia   
• Pavel Rychly, Czechia   
• Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine   
• Pavel Skrelin, Russia   
• Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic   
• Petr Sojka, Czech Republic   
• Georg Stemmer, Germany   
• Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia   
• Marko Tadic, Croatia   
• Jan Trmal, Czechia   
• Tamas Varadi, Hungary   
• Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland   
• Aleksander Wawer, Poland   
• Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands   
• Marcin Wolinski, Poland   
• Alina Wroblewska, Poland   
• Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia

Venue

Accommodation: The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website.

Location: Brno is the 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 and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

Contact

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to

The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024