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                     TSD 2024 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts
    April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.


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.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html

The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form
or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024@tsdconference.org ahead of the
respective deadline.


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, large language models,
    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 on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Archna Bhatia, USA
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
    Volker Fischer, Germany
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Lucie Flek, Germany
    Bjorn Gamback, Norway
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, USA
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Aidar Khusainov, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
    Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
    Siegfried Kunzmann, USA
    Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Joakim Nivre, Sweden
    Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Paolo Rosso, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Rychly, Czechia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Jan Trmal, Czechia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Aleksander Wawer, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Alina Wroblewska, Poland
    Jerneja Zganec Gros, 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.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (including references). 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. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2024 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

April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts
April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers
June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
proceedings 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
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2024
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2024@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano,
and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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*The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
(SIGDIAL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18-20, 2024. SIGDIAL will be
co-located with INLG which will take place after SIGDIAL in Tokyo, Japan.*

*

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series
of 24 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL
organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA.


Topics of Interest


We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on
discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:


  *   Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and
discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in
narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis.
Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay
grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated
by large language models.

  *   Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded,
situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications,
Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, State representation, tracking and
policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence, Dialogue issues in virtual reality
and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue,
Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue.

  *   Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and
dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes,
crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.

  *   Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations (i.e.,
beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions,
conversational implicature, presuppositions.

  *   Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology.


Submissions


The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo
descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted  for oral or for poster presentation.
Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.



  *  Long papersubmissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long
papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An
unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for
appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is
allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.

  * Short papersubmissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that
a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point
that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative
result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4
pagesincluding title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed
for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and
algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’
comments.

  *  Demo descriptionsshould be no longer than 4 pagesincluding title, text, examples,
figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the
program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for
the demo.


Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora
(or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.


Multiple Submissions


SIGDIAL 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has
been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding
submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org <http://sigdial.org/>.


Blind Review


Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 
2024 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review
(see author guidelines
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>). Unlike long
and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should
include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.


Submission Format


All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format,
which are available as an Overleaf template
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>and also downloadable directly
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>(Latex and Word)


Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in
these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.


Submission Deadline


SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as
commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.


Regular submission


Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an
initial pdf of their papers before May 17, 2024(23:59 GMT-11).  Details and the
submission link will be posted on the conference website <https://2024.sigdial.org/>.


Submissionvia ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/>


Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>for detailed
information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to
submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2024 is June 19, 2024.
Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus
the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2024.


Mentoring


Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will
be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a
mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then
help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.


Best Paper Awards


In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and
technology, SIGDIAL 2024 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are
eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.




SIGDIAL 2024 Program Committee

Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes

Conference Website: https://2024.sigdial.org/ <https://2024.sigdial.org/>

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Dear colleagues,

Following the success of the 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023) <www.tai2023.org> held in Singapore 18-20 November 2023, the TAI Standing Committee is now inviting bids to host the 3rd TAI conference in 2025.

As the merger of the TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe) conference series (2004–2018), the TAI series inherits features from its predecessors. The conference accepts 2-page abstracts, avoids parallel sessions, and typically hosts 3 to 5 invited keynote speakers. Following the conference, participants may choose to submit their optional 5-page full papers for publication in the ISCA online archives. With a focus on linguistic rather than technological aspects of prosody, TAI is affiliated with both the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), thereby receiving grants/awards from both organizations. TAI may also feature workshops at the same venue outside the conference program, before, after or during the conference. Given that all previous TIE conferences were held in Europe, the aim for the new TAI series is to rotate between Europe and other locations. Consequently, it is preferable for TAI 2025 to take place in Europe. While the initial two TAIs were held in November/December, the scheduling of future TAI conferences remains flexible, with spring or summer generally preferred, contingent on the preferences of local organizers.

The responsibility of the TAI Standing Committee is to promote the continuation of the series, select the venue for the next conference, and evaluate conferences and any proposals for format changes. The committee is composed of former TAL/TIE and TAI organizers. Its current members are Amalia Arvaniti, Yiya Chen, Christian DiCanio, Minghui Dong, Wentao Gu, Carlos Gussenhoven, Yanfeng Lu, Hansjörg Mixdorff, and Oliver Niebuhr. All bids will be discussed and voted on by the committee.

Bids should minimally provide the following information:

- Host institution
- General chair (and any co-organizers)
- Proposed conference dates
- Proposed conference theme
- Venue or general location of the venue
- Transportation and accommodation
- Estimated full and student registration fees
- Financial plan (including existing or potential funding sources)

Any additional information that may support the bid is welcome.

Bids should be submitted to the current chair of the TAI Standing Committee, Prof. Wentao Gu (wtgu@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by 30 April 2024. He is also available for additional information. Please feel free to distribute this announcement to any researchers in the speech prosody community who may be interested. Thank you very much!!

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