The confe rence focuses on all that is new in artificial int elligence such as natural language processing, spe ech processing and human-computer communication an d interaction. In its field, this conference is a special event attracting about 150 experts from 30 countries from around the world every year. The f act that the conference proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in its series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence further attests to the international prestige of the conference.
\n\nThe conference program will include oral prese ntations and poster/demonstration sessions with su fficient time for discussions of the issues raised . Papers will be presented in plenary or topic ori ented sessions. The TSD 2018 conference will be ac companied by one-day satellite workshops or projec t meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. Keynote speaker: Kenne th Church, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, U SA.
\nThe organizing committe e invites papers to be presented during the confer ence. Topics of the conference will include (but a re not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources , Speech Recognition, Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech, Speech and Spoken Lang uage Generation, Semantic Processing of Text and S peech, Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing, Automatic Dialogue Systems, and Multi modal Techniques and Modelling. Papers on processi ng of languages other than English are strongly en couraged.
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