The conference will be held in Hotel Continental, Brno (see the Conference Location page).

Overview
Date	Time	Action	Room
Monday, September 10, 2018	16:00 - 18:00	Registration	Lounge
Tuesday, September 11, 2018	8:00 - 9:00	Registration	Lounge
	9:00 - 9:20	Opening Session	Hall II
	9:20 - 9:50	Elmar Nöth: Speech and Language Based Human Decisions - What is next?	Hall II
	9:50 - 10:50	Kenneth Ward Church: Minsky, Chomsky & Deep Nets - invited talk	Hall II
	10:50 - 11:15	Coffee Break	Lounge
	11:15 - 12:05	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)	Hall II, Hall III
	12:05 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:30 - 15:00	Poster Session	Lounge
	15:00 - 15:50	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)	Hall II, Hall III
	15:50 - 16:20	Coffee Break	Lounge
	16:20 - 17:45	Demo Session	Computer Room
	19:00 - 21:00	Welcome Reception	Restaurant
Wednesday, September 12, 2018	9:00 - 10:00	Piek Vossen and Selene Baez and Lenka Bajcetić and Bram Kraaijeveld: Leolani: a Reference Machine with a Theory of Mind for Social Communication - invited talk	Hall II
	10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:30 - 11:00	Łukasz Kobylinski and Michał Wasiluk and Grzegorz Wojdyga: Improving Part-of-Speech Tagging by Meta-Learning - Best Paper talk	Hall II
	11:00 - 11:50	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)	Hall II, Hall III
	11:50 - 13:15	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:15 - 14:30	Poster Session	Lounge
	14:30 - 15:45	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	16:00 - 18:00	Program Committee Meeting	Computer Room
	18:00 - 20:00	Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
Thursday, September 13, 2018	09:00 - 09:50	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)	Hall II, Hall III
	09:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:20 - 11:35	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	11:35 - 13:00	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:00 - 24:00	Trip and Conference Dinner
Friday, September 14, 2018	9:30 - 10:30	Isabel Trancoso and Joana Correia and Francisco Teixeira and Bhiksha Raj and Alberto Abad: Speech Analytics for Medical Applications - invited talk	Hall II
	10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break	Lounge
	11:00 - 11:30	Asadullah and Tanel Alumae: Data Augmentation and Teacher-Student Training for LF-MMI Based Robust Speech Recognition - Best Student Paper talk	Hall II
	11:30 - 12:20	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)	Hall II, Hall III
	12:20 - 12:30	Closing Ceremony	Hall II
	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Time
8:00	Registration (Lounge)
9:00	Opening Session (Hall II)
9:20	Elmar Nöth: Speech and Language Based Human Decisions - What is next? (Hall II) chair: Karel Pala
9:50	Kenneth Ward Church: Minsky, Chomsky & Deep Nets - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Karel Pala
10:50	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Natalia Loukachevitch	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Tino Haderlein
11:15	Jaroslava Hlaváčová: Prefixal Morphemes of Czech Verbs	Jiří Přibil and Anna Přibilová and Jindřich Matoušek: Automatic Evaluation of Synthetic Speech Quality by a System Based on Statistical Analysis
11:40	Jakub Waszczuk and Witold Kieras and Marcin Wolinski: Morphosyntactic Disambiguation and Segmentation for Historical Polish with Graph-Based Conditional Random Fields	Martin Matura and Markéta Jůzová: Using Anomaly Detection for Fine Tuning of Formal Prosodic Structures in Speech Synthesis
12:05	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30	Poster Session (Lounge) chair: Aleš Horák
	Alexei Dobrov and Anastasia Dobrova and Pavel Grokhovskiy and Maria Smirnova and Nikolay Soms: Idioms Modeling in a Computer Ontology as a Morphosyntactic Disambiguation Strategy	Bálint Sass: A Lattice Based Algebraic Model for Verb Centered Constructions
	Gennady Shtekh and Polina Kazakova* and Nikita Nikitinsky: Adjusting Machine Translation Datasets for Document-Level Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Methodology	Jiří Málek and Jindřich Ždánský and Petr Červa: Robust Recognition of Conversational Telephone Speech via Multi-Condition Training and Data Augmentation
	Aleksandra Vatian and Natalia Dobrenko and Anastasia Makarenko and Niyaz Nigmatullin and Nikolay Vedernikov and Artem Vasilev and Andrey Stankevich and Natalia Gusarova and Anatoly Shalyto: Adaptation of Algorithms for Medical Information Retrieval for Working on Russian-Language Text Content	Jan Lehečka and Aleš Pražák: Online LDA-Based Language Model Adaptation
	Ágnes Kalivoda and Noémi Vadász and Balázs Indig: Manócska: A Unified Verb Frame Database for Hungarian	Zbyněk Zajíc and Daniel Soutner and Marek Hrúz and Luděk Müller and Vlasta Radová: Recurrent Neural Network Based Speaker Change Detection from Text Transcription Applied in Telephone Speaker Diarization System
	Lukás Svoboda and Tomás Brychcí­n: Czech Dataset for Semantic Textual Similarity	Ben Fishman and Itshak Lapidot and Irit Opher: Prosodic Features' Criterion For Hebrew
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Jaroslava Hlaváčová	Section Dialogue (Hall III) chair: Lubomir Ivanov
15:00	Aidar Khusainov and Dzhavdet Suleymanov and Rinat Gilmullin and Ajrat Gatiatullin: Building the Tatar-Russian NMT System Based on Re-Translation of Multilingual Data	Tino Haderlein and Anne Schützenberger and Michael Doellinger and Elmar Nöth: Subtext Word Accuracy and Prosodic Features for Automatic Intelligibility Assessment
15:25	N.L. Rusnachenko and Natalia Loukachevitch: Sentiment Attitudes and Their Extraction from Analytical Texts	Thierry Desot and Stefania Raimondo and Anastasia Mishakova and François Portet and Michel Vacher: Towards a French Smart-Home Voice Command Corpus: Design and NLU Experiments
15:50	Coffee Break (Lounge)
16:20	Demo Session (Computer Room) chair: Aleš Horák
	Thejeswi Nagendra Kamatchi, Jelena Mitrović, Siegfried Handschuh: Automated Legal Research for German Law	Aleksei Dobrov, Anastasia Dobrova, Pavel Grokhovskiy, Maria Smirnova, Nikolay Soms: Computer model of the Tibetan language morphology
	Basile Audard, Elena Manishina, Joao Pedro Campello: SMACC - text analyzer for legal assistance	Magdalena Wiercioch: Text Embeddings Based on Synonyms
	Kira Droganova, Eva Fučíková, Anša Vernerová: An interface between the Czech valency lexicon PDT-Vallex and corpus manager KonText	Hien T. Ha and Marek Medveď and Zuzana Nevěřilová and Aleš Horák: Recognition of OCR Invoice Metadata Block Types
	Witold Kieraś, Łukasz Kobyliński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Zbigniew Gawłowicz, Michał Wasiluk: Korpusomat: a quick way to create searchable, annotated corpora	Vít Baisa, Tomáš Svoboda, Jan Michelfeit, Miloš Jakubíček, Vojtěch Kovář, Ondřej Matuška: Sketch Engine: all-new user experience and richer API
17:45
19:00	Welcome Reception (Restaurant)
21:00

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Time
9:00	Piek Vossen and Selene Baez and Lenka Bajcetić and Bram Kraaijeveld: Leolani: a Reference Machine with a Theory of Mind for Social Communication - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Aleš Horák
10:00	Coffee Break (Lounge)
10:30	Łukasz Kobylinski and Michał Wasiluk and Grzegorz Wojdyga: Improving Part-of-Speech Tagging by Meta-Learning - Best Paper talk (Hall II) chair: Piek Vossen
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Pavel Rychlý	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Simon Dobrišek
11:00	Dominik Macháček and Jonáš Vidra and Ondřej Bojar: Morphological and Language-Agnostic Word Segmentation for NMT used as gold-standard data for evaluating the segmentation methods	Markéta Jůzová and Daniel Tihelka and Jan Volín: On the Extension of the Formal Prosody Model for TTS
11:25	Jakub Harašta and Jaromír Šavelka and František Kasl and Adéla Kotková and Pavel Loutocký and Jakub Míšek and Daniela Procházková and Helena Pullmannová and Petr Semenišín and Tamara Šejnová and Nikola Šimková and Michal Vosinek and Lucie Zavadilová and Jan Zibner: Annotated Corpus of Czech Case Law for Reference Recognition Tasks	Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jakub Vít and Daniel Tihelka: WaveNet-Based Speech Synthesis Applied to Czech
11:50	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:15	Poster Session (Lounge) chair: Pavel Rychlý
	Aleksander Wawer and Justyna Sarzyńska: Do We Need Word Sense Disambiguation for LCM Tagging?	Daniel Tihelka, Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Markéta Jůzová and Jakub Vít and Jindřich Matoušek and Martin Grůber: Current State of Text-to-Speech System ARTIC: A Decade of Research on the Field of Speech Technologies
	Samia Ben Ismail and Sirine Boukedi and Kais Haddar: Generation of Arabic Broken Plural within LKB	Michal Trzos, Martin Dostál, Petra Macháčková, and Jana Eitlerová: Voice Control in a Real Flight Deck Environment
	Behzad Naderalvojoud and Behrang Qasemizadeh and Laura Kallmeyer and Ebru Akcapinar Sezer: A Cross-Lingual Approach for Building Multilingual Sentiment Lexicons	Radek Šafařík and Lukáš Matějů and Lenka Weingartová: The Influence of Errors in Phonetic Annotations on Performance of Speech Recognition System
	Hien T. Ha and Marek Medveď and Zuzana Nevěřilová and Aleš Horák: Recognition of OCR Invoice Metadata Block Types	Gyoergy Kovács: Classification of Formal and Informal Dialogues Based on Emotion Recognition Features
	Hassina Bouressace and Janos Csirik: Recognition of the Logical Structure of Arabic Newspaper Pages	Ignatius Ezeani and Mark Hepple and Ikechukwu Onyenwe and Chioma Enemuo: Multi-task Projected Embedding for Igbo
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Petr Sojka	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Jimmy Kunzmann
14:30	Lauma Pretkalnina and Laura Rituma and Baiba Saulite: Deriving Enhanced Universal Dependencies from a Hybrid Dependency-Constituency Treebank	Niraj Shrestha and Marie-Francine Moens: Semantic Role Labeling of Speech Transcripts without Sentence Boundaries
14:55	Natalia Loukachevitch and Ekaterina Parkhomenko: Evaluating Distributional Features for Multiword Expression Recognition	Jan Zelinka: Deep Learning and Online Speech Activity Detection for Czech Radio Broadcasting
15:20		N. Garcia-Ospina and T. Arias-Vergara and J. C. Vásquez-Correa and J. R. Orozco-Arroyave and M. Cernak and E. Nöth: Phonological i-Vectors to Detect Parkinson's Disease
16:00	Program Committee Meeting (Computer Room)
18:00	Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
20:00

Thursday, September 13, 2018
Time	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Petr Sojka	Section Text (Hall III) chair: Aidar Khusainov
09:00	Roua Torjmen and Kais Haddar: Morphological Aanalyzer for the Tunisian Dialect	Miloslav Konopík and Ondřej Pražák: LDA in Character-LSTM-CRF Named Entity Recognition
09:25	Zuzana Pelikánová and Zuzana Nevěřilová: Corpus Annotation Pipeline for Non-standard Texts	Ajay Gupta and Devendra Verma and Sachin Pawar and Sangameshwar Patil and Swapnil Hingmire and Girish K. Palshikar and Pushpak Bhattacharya: Identifying Participant Mentions and Resolving their Coreferences in Legal Court Judgements
09:50	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Miloslav Konopík	Section Dialogue/Speech (Hall III) chair: Daniel Tihelka
10:20	Lubomir Ivanov and Amanda Aebig and Stephen Meerman: Lexical Stress-Based Authorship Attribution with Accurate Pronunciation Patterns Selection	AlBara Khalifa and Tsuneo Kato and Seiichi Yamamoto: The Retention Effect of Learning Grammatical Patterns Implicitly Using Joining-in-Type Robot-Assisted Language-Learning System
10:45	Afifah Waseem: CoRTE: A Corpus of Recognizing Textual Entailment Data Annotated for Coreference and Bridging Relations	Adam Chýlek and Jan Švec and Luboš Šmídl: Learning to Interrupt the User at the Right Time in Incremental Dialogue Systems
11:10	Dage Särg and Kadri Muischnek and Kaili Müürisep: Annotated Clause Boundaries' Influence on Parsing Results	Juan Camillo Vásquez-Correa and Nicanor Garcia-Ospina and Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave and Milos Cernak and Elmar Nöth: Phonological Posteriors and GRU Recurrent Units to Assess Speech Impairments of Patients with Parkinson's Disease
11:35	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:00	Trip and Conference Dinner
24:00

Friday, September 14, 2018
Time
9:30	Isabel Trancoso and Joana Correia and Francisco Teixeira and Bhiksha Raj and Alberto Abad: Speech Analytics for Medical Applications - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Elmar Nöth
10:30	Coffee Break (Lounge)
11:00	Asadullah and Tanel Alumae: Data Augmentation and Teacher-Student Training for LF-MMI Based Robust Speech Recognition - Best Student Paper talk (Hall II) chair: Isabel Trancoso
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Karel Pala	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave
11:30	Anutosh Maitra and Shubhashis Sengupta and Abhisek Mukhopadhyay and Deepak Gupta and Rajkumar Pujari and Pushpak Bhattacharya and Asif Ekbal and Tom Geo Jain: Semantic Question Matching in Data Constrained Environment	Josef Michálek and Jan Vaněk: A Survey of Recent DNN Architectures on the TIMIT Phone Recognition Task
11:55	Fangzhou Zhai and Yue Fan and Tejaswani Verma and Rupali Sinha and Dietrich Klakow: A Dataset and a Novel Neural Approach for Optical Gregg Shorthand Recognition	Markéta Jůzová and Jan Volín: F0 Post-Stress Rise Trends Consideration in Unit Selection TTS
12:20	Closing Ceremony (Hall II)
12:30	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30