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TSD 2023 -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-sixth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2023)
Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 4-7 September 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: Plzeň (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

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 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 Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimír Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Černocký, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrišek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekštein, 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 Fišer, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabík, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Tino Haderlein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Charles University, Czechia
Aleš Horák, 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 Konopík, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Ivan Kopeček, Masaryk University, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Král, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef 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
Václav Matoušek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Mouček, 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 Rychlý, 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 Smrž, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Šikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadić, 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 Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Victor Zakharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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.

The official language of the TSD2023 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 Plzeň 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 -- TSD2023 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2023@tsdconference.org
Phone: +420 730 851 103

The official TSD 2023 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/

LOCATION

The city of Plzeň (or Pilsen in Germanic languages) is situated in the heart
of West Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers: Úhlava, Úslava, Radbuza,
and Mže. 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 Plzeň 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.

Plzeň 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 Plzeň very easily within about
two hours by Prague public transport and a train/bus.