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The twenty-sixth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2023) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, September 4-7, 2023 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic SUBMISSION DEADLINE 23 April 2023 ............ Deadline for submission of contributions DATES AND FEES Deadline for submission of contributions: 23 April 2023 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 22 May 2023 Deadline for submission of accepted camera-ready papers: 4 June 2023 TSD 2023: 4 -- 7 September 2023 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. The TSD conference proceedings 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. Moreover, LNAI series is listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. The history of the TSD conference dates back to 1998 when the event was held for the first time, that time as an international workshop, in Brno, Czech Republic. The essential idea behind the project was to establish a scientific meeting platform that would act as a bridge between the East and the West. TOPICS Topics of the 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 modelling 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 Modelling - video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elmar Noth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (General Chairman) Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Jan Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czechia Simon Dobrisek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany Darja Fiser, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States Tino Haderlein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czechia Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Czechia Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States Jaroslava Hlavacova, Charles University, Czechia Ales Horak, Masaryk University, Czechia Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Denis Jouvet, Inria, France Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Miloslav Konopik, University of West Bohemia, Czechia Ivan Kopecek, Masaryk University, Czechia Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia Pavel Kral, University of West Bohemia, Czechia Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States Nikola Ljubesic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Bernardo Magnini , Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia Roman Moucek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Czechia Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States Milan Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Masaryk University, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czechia Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands Marcin Wolinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Victor Zakharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentations of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. The official language of the TSD 2023 conference is English. Thus, the submitted papers must be written in English. However, papers dealing with text and speech processing in linguistic environments other than English are strongly encouraged (as long as they are written in English). The conference is planned to be held fully on-site, a hybrid scheme (some participants on site, some online) may come on the agenda if necessary. Social events including an excursion to the Pilsner Urquell brewery and a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages (including references) formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based upon 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 2023 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 23 April 2023 ............ Submission of full papers for review 22 May 2023 .............. Notification of acceptance 4 June 2023 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration 4-7 September 2023 ....... Conference dates The accepted conference contributions will be collected in the proceedings published by Springer that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in a 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. There will be also a low-budget option available in the students' halls of residence. ADDRESS All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD 2023 -- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia Univerzitni 2732/8, 301 00 Plzen, Czech Republic The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Ms Marluce Quaresma -- TSD 2023 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2...@tsdconference.org Phone: +420 730 851 103 The official TSD 2023 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION The city of Plzen (or Pilsen in Germanic languages) is situated in the heart of West Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers: Uhlava, Uslava, Radbuza, and Mze. With its approx. 171,000 inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In addition, it has been elected the European Capital of Culture for 2015 by the Council of the European Union. The city of Plzen has a convenient location in the centre of West Bohemia, close to the German border, on the confluence of four rivers. The place lied on the crossroads of important medieval trade routes and nowadays it naturally forms an important highway and railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and public means of transport. Plzen lies 85 km (53 mi) south-westwards from the Czech capital Prague, 222 km (138 mi) from the Bavarian capital Munich, 148 km (92 mi) from the Saxon capital Dresden, and 174 km (108 mi) from the Upper Austrian capital Linz. The closest international airport is the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague, which is 75 km (47 mi) away and one can get from there to Plzen very easily within about two hours by Prague public transport and a train/bus. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@engr.orst.edu https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai