Topics


TSD'98 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 workshop 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 summarization
  
• Speech modeling
  
• Speech segmentation
  
• Speech recognition
  
• Text-to-speech synthesis
  
• Dialogue systems
  
• Development of dialogue strategies
  
• Assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
  
• Applied systems and software