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                     TSD 2023 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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                 Twenty-sixth International Conference on
                   TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2023)

                Pilsen, Czech Republic, 4-7 September 2023
                       http://www.tsdconference.org/


*** The paper submission deadline was postponed! ***

*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the Springer
Nature Journal of Computer Science (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)


The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen) in co-operation with the Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and is supported by the
International Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic,
Primavera **** Hotel & Congress Centre


THE IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submission of contributions:       Postponed to April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance or rejection:        May 22, 2023
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: June 4, 2023
TSD 2023:                                       September 4-7, 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.


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, 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 dealing with text and speech processing in linguistic environments
other than English are strongly encouraged (as long as they are written in
English).


PROGRAM 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
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 programme will include invited keynote speeches given by
respected influential researchers/academics, presentations of accepted
papers in both oral and poster/demonstration form, and interesting social
events. The papers will be presented in plenary and topic-oriented
sessions.

Social events including an excursion to the world-famous Pilsner Urquell
Brewery and a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow additional informal
interactions of the conference participants.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (known so far)

* Philippe Blache -- Director of Research at the Laboratoire
  Parole et Langage (LPL), Institute of Language, Communication and the
  Brain CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, France

* Ivan Habernal -- Head of the Trustworthy Human Language
  Technologies (TrustHLT) Group   Department of Computer Science,
  Technische universitat Darmstadt, Germany

* Daniela Braga (negotiations in progress) -- Founder and CEO
  at Defined.ai, Bellevue, Washington, United States


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages (in
total, i.e. with all figures, bibliography, etc. included) formatted in
the LNAI/LNCS style. 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. Each paper is examined by at least
3 reviewers and the process is double blind.

The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission
interface accessible from the TSD 2023 web application at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?form=mypapers

The papers submitted to the TSD 2023 must not be under review at any other
conference or other type of publication during the TSD 2023 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.

*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the
Springer Nature Journal of Computer Science
(https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee arranged discounted accommodation of appropriate
standards at the conference venue. Details about the conference
accomodation will be available on the TSD 2023 web page at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?page=accommodation

The prices of the accommodation (and limited-budget options) will be
available on the conference website, too.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to

    TSD 2023 - KIV
    Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia
    Univerzitni 8, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic
    Phone: +420 730 851 103
    Fax: +420 377 632 402 (mark the material with letters 'TSD')
    E-mail: tsd2023@tsdconference.org

The e-mail and the conference phone is looked after by the TSD 2023
conference secretary Ms Marluce Quaresma (speaks English, Portuguese, and
Czech).

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.
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.