Conference Topics
Conference Theme
TSD 2002 will address the following topics within the field of natural
language processing:
- corpora, texts and transcription
- speech analysis, recognition and synthesis
- their interwinning within NL dialogue systems
Topics of the TSD 2002 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
- multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems
- information retrieval and text/topic summarisation
- speech modelling
- speech segmentation
- speech recognition
- text-to-speech synthesis
- dialogue systems
- development of dialogue strategies
- user modelling
- knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
- assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
- applied systems and software
- facial animation
- visual speech synthesis
The official language of the event will be English, but papers
on issues relating to text and speech processing in languages
other than English are strongly encouraged.
Format of the Conference
TSD 2002 will be an international conference with a limited number
of active participants. Priority will be given to persons presenting
a paper. The conference program will include oral presentations and
a poster/demonstration session. Papers will be presented in plenary
or parallel sessions.
