tsd 2008 bsv8293tsdconferenceorg tsd 2008 first call papers eleventh international conference text speech dialogue tsd 2008 brno czech republic 812 september 2008 httpwwwtsdconferenceorg conference organized faculty informatics masaryk university brno faculty applied sciences university west bohemia pilsen conference supported international speech communication association venue brno czech republic tsd series tsd series evolved prime forum interaction researchers spoken written language processing former east block countries western colleagues proceedings tsd form book published springerverlag lecture notes artificial intelligence lnai series topics topics conference include limited text corpora tagging transcription problems spoken corpora sense disambiguation links text speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems spoken texts multilingual issues multilingual dialogue systems information retrieval information extraction texttopic summarization machine translation semantic networks ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search speech ir ie texttospeech synthesis dialogue systems development dialogue strategies prosody dialogues emotions personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation relation dialogue systems assistive technologies based speech dialogue applied systems software facial animation visual speech synthesis papers processing languages english strongly encouraged program committee frederick jelinek usa general chair hynek hermansky switzerland executive chair eneko agirre spain genevieve baudoin france jan cernocky czech republic attila ferencz romania alexander gelbukh mexico louise guthrie gb jan hajic czech republic eva hajicova czech republic patrick hanks czech republic ludwig hitzenberger germany jaroslava hlavacova czech republic ales horak czech republic eduard hovy usa ivan kopecek czech republic steven krauwer netherlands siegfried kunzmann germany natalija loukachevitch russia 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