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TSD 2021 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and
Dialogue
(TSD2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021
http://www.tsdconference.org
IMPORTANT
TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc,
Czech
Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which
is
going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. Olomouc is only 77 km
(48 mi)
away from Brno (30-45 min by car, 1 hour by public transport).
COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS
As the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the
TSD2021
organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if
necessary.
* PC members have a good experience with it from TSD2020.
* A virtual conference would mean significantly decreased
conference fees.
* If the majority of participants can travel to the Czech
Republic, the
onsite mode of the conference will be preferred. For others, there
would
be special virtual sessions. Organizers will record all the
sessions.
All measures have been taken to ensure that the organization of
the TSD
2021 conference in September 2021 is not threatened by the
COVID-19
pandemic.
TSD HIGHLIGHTS
* The TSD book of proceedings 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 a high-standard transparent review process -- double
blind,
final reviewers' discussion.
* TSD is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc,
Czech
Republic.
* The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of
Arts,
Palacky university, Olomouc.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and
material, all
meals, social events, etc.) for an easily affordable fee.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for submission of
contributions
May 21, 2021 ............. Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for submission of camera-ready
papers
September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD2021 conference time
The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in the form of
navigable
content. Printed books will be available for an extra fee.
TSD SERIES
The TSD series has 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.
TOPICS
Topics of the 24th 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
modeling).
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 Modeling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and
personality modeling).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
All programme committee members are listed on the conference web
pages
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/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.
LOCATION
Olomouc is a beautiful place on the Morava river with more than
a thousand-year-long history. Once a capital of Moravia - one of
the three
historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown - nowadays, it still
somehow waits
to be rediscovered. The world-renowned tourist guide Lonely Planet
alerted
to this fact by putting Olomouc onto the list of TOP 10 tourist
destinations not to be missed during a visit to Europe. It even
claimed
Olomouc is one of the most unappreciated destinations in the Czech
Republic.
By its beauty, Olomouc can, however, easily compete with not only
Prague
but any other most sought spots around Europe. It certainly
deserves our
attention.
One can find there the second most important urban conservation
zone in
the Czech Republic, surrounded by splendorous parks, an incredible
concentration of ecclesiastical structures, UNESCO-protected
monuments,
and even a horolog with a history maybe more interesting than the
Prague
one. All together safe from the neverending bustle of large
cities...
The most important monument in Olomouc is the Holy Trinity Column
standing
in the central square. It represents the largest group of Baroque
statues
in one structure in Central Europe. Apart from many historical
buildings
such as Olomouc castle with the gothic cathedral of St. Wenceslas
or the
former Olomouc fortress, another interesting point about Olomouc
is the
astronomical clock, designed in the spirit of Socialist Realism.
The city of Olomouc has a convenient location close to the
geographic
centre of Moravia (a historical region in the east of the Czech
Republic),
on the banks of the river Morava. The place forms an important
highway and
railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both
individual and
public means of transport.
Olomouc lies 260 km (162 mi) eastwards from the Czech capital
Prague, and
210 km (130 mi) from both the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the
Austrian capital Vienna. The closest international airports are 77
km (48
mi) away in Brno, and 202 km (126 mi) away in Katowice in Poland.
We are very excited about the fact that the TSD2021 is going to
take place
in such a fabulous, unique and rich in history city as Olomouc.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen; the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University,
Brno; and the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc.
VENUE
Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc
Biskupske nam. 842/1
77900 Olomouc
Czech Republic
CONTACT
The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing
committee is
writing an e-mail to:
Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2021 Conference Secretary
E-mail:
TSD2021@tsdconference.org
Phone: +420 730 851 103
All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to:
TSD2021 - NTIS P2
Fakulta aplikovanych ved
Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
Univerzitni 8
CZ-306 14 Plzen
Czech Republic
Fax: +420 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with
large
capitals 'TSD' on top.
TSD2021 conference website:
http://www.tsdconference.org/
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