TSD 2007 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular:
- corpora, texts and transcription,
- speech analysis, recognition and synthesis,
- their intertwining within NL dialogue systems.
Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to):
- text corpora and tagging
- transcription problems in spoken corpora
- sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems
- parsing issues
- especially parsing problems in spoken texts
- multi-lingual issues
- especially multi-lingual dialogue systems
- information retrieval and information extraction
- text/topic summarization
- machine translation
- semantic networks and ontologies
- semantic web
- speech modeling
- speech segmentation
- speech recognition
- search in speech for IR and IE
- text-to-speech synthesis
- dialogue systems
- development of dialogue strategies
- prosody in dialogues
- emotions and personality modeling
- user modeling
- knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
- assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
- applied systems and software
- facial animation
- visual speech synthesis