TOPICS

The 24th International Conference of Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2021) will explore the topics in the field of speech and natural language processing, in particular:

• corpora, texts, transcription, and translation;
• speech analysis, recognition, and synthesis;
• their intertwining within dialogue systems.

The topics will also 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.