Ninth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue September 11, 2006

Conference Theme

TSD 2006 will address the following topics within the field of natural language processing:

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

Topics of the TSD 2006 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, 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
The official language of the event will be English, but papers on issues relating to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

Format of the Conference

TSD 2006 will be an international conference with a limited number of active participants. Priority will be given to persons presenting a paper. 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.

Official Website: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2006/