Text, Speech and Dialogue
Text, Speech and Dialogue is an annual conference involving topics on natural language processing and computational linguistics. The meeting is held every September alternating in Brno and Pilsen, Czech Republic.
The first Text, Speech and Dialogue conference took place in Brno in 1998.
Overview
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 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 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 the International Speech Communication Association.
Conference topics
- Corpora and language resources
- Speech recognition
- Tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech
- Speech and spoken language generation
- Semantic processing of text and speech
- Integrating applications of text and speech processing
- Machine translation
- Automatic dialogue systems
- Multimodal Techniques and Modelling
Past keynote speakers
| Year | Keynote speakers |
| 2002 | James Pustejovsky, Misha Pavel, Yorick Wilks, Ronald Allan Cole |
| 2004 | Kenneth Church, Patrick Hanks, James Pustejovsky, Jan Odijk |
| 2006 | Eduard Hovy, Louise Guthrie, James Pustejovsky, Eva Hudlicka |
| 2007 | Frederick Jelinek, Eva Hajičová, David Nahamoo, Heinrich Niemann, Renato De Mori |
| 2008 | Jerry Hobbs, Elizabeth Shriberg, Graeme Hirst |
| 2009 | Tilman Becker, Louise Guthrie, Hynek Heřmanský, Frederick Jelinek, Elmar Nöth, Roberto Pieraccini |
| 2010 | John Carroll, Christiane Fellbaum, Miroslav Novak, Frederick Jelinek |
| 2011 | Hynek Heřmanský, Adam Sporka, Siegfried Kunzmann |
| 2012 | Ruslan Mitkov, Walter Daelemans, Adam Kilgarriff |
| 2013 | Hynek Hermansky, Ralf Steinberger, Ron Cole, Viktor Zakharov |
| 2014 | Ralph Grishman, Bernardo Magnini, Salim Roukos |
| 2015 | Hermann Ney, Dan Roth, Björn W. Schuller, Peter D. Turney, Alexander Waibel |
| 2016 | Hinrich Schütze, Ido Dagan |
| 2017 | Eva Hajičová, Tomáš Mikolov, Michael Picheny, Rico Sennrich, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | Kenneth W. Church, Piek Vossen, Isabel Trancoso |