Preface

摘要

The annual International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), which emerged in 1997, constitutes a recognized platform for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in computer processing of natural language. It has become a broad interdisciplinary forum, interweaving the topics of speech technology and language processing. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. Indeed, one of its goals has always been bringing together NLP researchers with various interests from different parts of the world to promote their mutual cooperation. One of the ambitions of the conference is, as its name suggests, not only to deal with dialogue systems but also to improve dialogue among researchers in areas of NLP, i.e., among the "text" and the "speech" and the "dialogue" people.