*PROGRAMME

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The timetable shown below is the final version of the conference programme. Please, check this page regularly for the case there were some changes to the programme based upon particular requests of the conference participants or due to other unforeseen reasons.
Legend:   = on-site keynote speech, = online keynote speech, = on-site oral presentation, = online oral presentation, = on-site poster presentation, = online poster presentation

The on-site presentations will be broadcast online to the designated virtual rooms using the Zoom platform. The online presentations will be projected in the designated lecture halls for the on-site participants. The time of the programme events is given in CEST (Central European Summer Time) or UTC+2.

Monday, 6 September 2021

08:30 – 09:15 Registration (open on all conference days)
09:15 – 09:30 Official Opening of the 24th International Conference TSD2021 — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
 Elmar Nöth (TSD2021 Programme Committee Chairman)
09:30 – 10:30 Invited Talk — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
  Olga Vechtomova: Poetics of AI: Models for Stylized Text Generation
( link to the recorded presentation)
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40 Oral Session: Speech 1 — Lecture Hall 1 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Jindřich Matoušek

  Amin Honarmandi Shandiz: Voice Activity Detection for Ultrasound-based Silent Speech Interfaces using Convolutional Neural Networks
  Zdeněk Hanzlíček: Speakers Talking Foreign Languages in a Multi-lingual TTS System
  Michal Vraštil: On Comparison of XGBoost and Convolutional Neural Networks for Glottal Closure Instant Detection
  Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro: Emotional State Modeling for the Assessment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease
Oral Session: Text 1 — Lecture Hall 2 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Gábor Bella

  Pavel Kholiavin: Estimating Social Distance Between Interlocutors with MFCC-based Acoustic Models for Vowels
  Nima Nabizadeh: Leveraging Inter-step Dependencies for Information Extraction from Procedural Task Instructions
  Samiran Pal: Semantic Templates for Generating Long-form Technical Questions
  Melika Golestani Pour: Using BERT Encoding and Sentence-Level Language Model for Sentence Ordering
12:40 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
  Kate Knill: Use of Deep Learning in Free Speaking Non-native English Assessment
15:00 – 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Poster Session: Text 2, Speech 2 — Lobby

  František Kynych: Identification of Scandinavian Languages from Speech Using Bottleneck Features and X-vectors
  Josef V. Psutka: CNN-TDNN-based Architecture for Speech Recognition Using Grapheme Models in Bilingual Czech-Slovak Task
  Daniel Tihelka: How Much End-to-end is Tacotron 2 End-to-end TTS System
  Silvie Cinková: Adaptation of Classic Readability Metrics to Czech
  Maarten Janssen: A Corpus with Wavesurfer and TEI: Speech and Video in TEITOK
  Tamás Grósz: LSTM-XL: Attention Enhanced Long-term Memory for LSTM Cells
Poster Session: Text 3, Speech 3 — Online

  Manfred Klenner: The Detection of Actors for German
Online <log in to see links>
  Auriane Boudin: A Multimodal Model for Predicting Conversational Feedbacks
Online <log in to see links>
  Gil Rocha: Rethinking Adversarial Training for Language Adaptation
Online <log in to see links>
  Anton Golubev: Multi-step Transfer Learning for Sentiment Analysis
Online <log in to see links>
  Wen-Ting Tseng: Effective FAQ Retrieval and Question Matching Tasks with Unsupervised Knowledge Injection
Online <log in to see links>
  Dou Liu: Rewriting Fictional Texts Based on Pivot Paraphrase Generation and Character Modification
Online <log in to see links>
  Dejan Porjazovski: Attention-based End-To-End Named Entity Recognition From Speech
Online <log in to see links>
  Irina Illina: DNN-based Semantic Rescoring Models for Speech Recognition
Online <log in to see links>
17:00 – ...      Old Olomouc Tour & Welcome Dinner
Meeting point: In front of  Faculty of Arts, Palacký University

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

09:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
  Lucie Flek: User-centric Natural Language Understanding
( link to the recorded presentation)
10:00 – 10:30Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:35 Oral Session: Text 4 — Lecture Hall 1 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Maarten Janssen

  Jana Straková: RobeCzech: Czech RoBERTa, A Monolingual Contextualized Language Representation Model
  Tomáš Jelínek: SYN2020: A New Corpus of Czech with an Innovated Annotation
  Ondřej Sotolář: Towards Personal Data Anonymization for Social Messaging
Oral Session: Speech 4 — Lecture Hall 2 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Daniel Tihelka

  Swayambhu Nath Ray: Improving RNN-T ASR Performance with Date-Time and Location Awareness
  Kentaro Kamiya: Using Presentation Slides and Adjacent Utterances for Post-editing of Speech Recognition Results for Meeting Recordings
  Aidar Khusainov: Incorporation of Iterative Self-Supervised Pre-training in the Creation of the ASR System for the Tatar Language
  Amal Jude Ashwin F: An AI-based Detection System for Mudrabharati: A Novel Unified Fingerspelling Sysytem for Indic Scripts
  Jing Liu: Exploiting Large-scale Teacher-Student Training for On-device Acoustic Models
  Cristian David Rios-Urrego: Is There Any Additional Information in a Neural Network Trained for Pathological Speech Classification?
12:35 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
  Ivan Vulić: Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer and Adaptation in Low-Data Regimes: Achievements, Trends, and Challenges
15:00 – 16:00 Oral Session: Text 5 — Lecture Hall 1 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Silvie Cinková

  Jan Oldřich Krůza: ParCzech 3.0: A Large Czech Speech Corpus with Rich Metadata
  Jan Švec: Transformer-based Automatic Punctuation Prediction and Word Casing Reconstruction of the ASR Output
  Owen Trigueros: Verbal Autopsy: First Steps Towards Questionnaire Reduction
Poster Session: Corpora 1Online

  Gábor Bella: A Database and Visualization of the Similarity of Contemporary Lexicons
Online <log in to see links>
  Roman Roszko: New Parallel Corpora of Baltic and Slavic Languages – Assumptions of Corpus Construction
Online <log in to see links>
  Brett Drury: BrAgriSpeech: A Corpus of Brazilian-Portuguese Agricultural Reported Speech
Online <log in to see links>
  Noémi Vadász: Introducing NerKor, A Gold Standard Hungarian Named Entity Annotated Corpus
Online <log in to see links>
  Kamran Ibiyev: Using Zero-shot Transfer to Initialize azWikiNER, A Gold Standard Named Entity Corpus for the Azerbaijani Language
Online <log in to see links>
  Sidney Leal: Evaluating Semantic Similarity Methods to Build Semantic Predictability Norms of Reading Data
Online <log in to see links>
16:00 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Programme Committee Meeting — Lecture Hall 1 & Online <log in to see links>

(TSD Programme Committee members only)
Oral Session: Text 6 — Lecture Hall 2 & Online <log in to see links>
Chairperson: Pavel Kholiavin

  Ezra Aragon: Deep Bag-of-Sub-Emotions for Depression Detection in Social Media
  Jackylyn Beredo: Generating Empathetic Responses with a Pre-trained Conversational Model
  Marian Simko: Exploiting Subjectivity Knowledge Transfer for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
  Taisei Najima: Remote Learning of Speaking in Syntactic Forms with Robot-Avatar-Assisted Language Learning System
  Prateek Saxena: Labelled EPIE: A Dataset For Idiom Sense Disambiguation
  Ashwin Geet D'Sa: Exploring Conditional Language Model Based Data Augmentation Approaches For Hate Speech Classification
19:00 – ...      Closing Ceremony of the 24th International Conference TSD2021 — Main Lecture Hall & Online <log in to see links>
 Elmar Nöth (TSD2021 Programme Committee Chairman)

Wednesday, 8 September 2021

09:00 – 16:30 Whole-day Conference Trip to the Castle Bouzov (CANCELLED)
Meeting point: In front of  Faculty of Arts, Palacký University


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