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Overview
Date	Time	Action	Room
Tuesday, September 10, 2024	16:00 - 18:00	Registration	Lounge
Wednesday, September 11, 2024	8:00 - 9:00	Registration	Lounge
	9:00 - 9:20	Opening Session	Hall 5
	9:20 - 10:20	Hynek Hermansky: Why should we ask why? - invited talk	Hall 5
	10:20 - 10:35	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:35 - 12:15	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)	Hall 5, Hall 4
	12:15 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:30 - 14:30	Poster Session	Lounge
	14:30 - 16:10	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)	Hall 5, Hall 4
	16:10 - 16:25	Coffee Break	Lounge
	16:25 - 17:30	Demo Session	Hall 4
	16:30 - 17:30	Program Committee Meeting	Hall 5
	18:00 - 20:00	Welcome Reception	Restaurant
Thursday, September 12, 2024	09:00 - 10:15	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall 5, Hall 4
	10:15 - 10:30	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:30 - 11:45	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall 5, Hall 4
	11:45 - 12:45	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	12:45 - 23:00	Trip and Conference Dinner
Friday, September 13, 2024	9:30 - 10:30	Preslav Nakov: Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models: Can we Keep LLMs Safe and Factual? - invited talk	Hall 5
	10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:45 - 12:25	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)	Hall 5, Hall 4
	12:25 - 12:30	Closing Ceremony	Hall 5
	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Time
8:00	Registration (Lounge)
9:00	Opening Session (Hall 5)
9:20	Hynek Hermansky: Why should we ask why? - invited talk (Hall 5) chair: Elmar Nöth
10:20	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
	Section Text (Hall 5) chair: Pavel Rychlý	Section Speech (Hall 4) chair: Jindřich Matoušek
10:35	#1202: Evangelia Gogoulou and Timothée Lesort and Magnus Boman and Joakim Nivre: Continual Learning Under Language Shift (oral)	#1291: Maroš Jakubec and Roman Jarina and Eva Lieskovská and Peter Kasák and Michal Spišiak: Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning From Speaker Embeddings (oral)
11:00	#1196: Jérémie Roux and Hani Guenoune and Mathieu Lafourcade and Richard Moot: Explaining Metaphors in the French Language by Solving Analogies using a Knowledge Graph (oral)	#1215: Mohammed Hamzah Abed and Dávid Sztahó: Deep Speaker Embeddings for Speaker Verification of Children (oral)
11:25	#1252: Marisa Schmidt and Karin Harbusch and Denis Memmesheimer: Automatic Ellipsis Reconstruction in Coordinated German Sentences Based on Text-To-Text Transfer Transformers (oral)	#1218: Chin Yuen Kwok and Jia Qi Yip and Eng Siong Chng: Improved Alignment for Score Combination of RNN-T and CTC Decoder for Online Decoding (oral)
11:50	#1269: Michael Mohler and Sandra Lee and Mary Brunson and David Bracewell: Introducing LCC's NavProc 1.0 Corpus (oral)	#1285: Mala J. B. and Alex Raj S. M. and Rajeev Rajan: X-vector-based Speaker Diarization Using Bi-LSTM and Interim Voting-driven Post-processing (oral)
12:15	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30	Poster Session (Lounge) chair: Ales Horak
	#1211: Krištof Anetta and Aleš Horák: New Human-Annotated Dataset of Czech Health Records for Training Medical Concept Recognition Models (poster)	#1225: Chang Nian Chuy and Cherie Ding and Qinmin Vivian Hu: Analyzing Biases in Popular Answer Selection Datasets on Neural-based QA Models (poster)
	#1231: Lilia Azrou and Houda Oufaida and Philippe Blache and Israa Hamdine: Using Neural Coherence Models to Assess Discourse Coherence (poster)	#1253: Edoardo Signoroni and Pavel Rychlý: Better Low-Resource Machine Translation with Smaller Vocabularies (poster)
	#1264: Adam Mištera and Tomáš Brychcín: Kernel Least Squares Transformations for Cross-lingual Semantic Spaces (poster)	#1267: Abishek Stephen and Vojtěch John and Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Unsupervised Extraction of Morphological Categories for Morphemes (poster)
	#1200: Gokul Srinivasagan and Munir Georges: Retrieval Augmented Spoken Language Generation for Transport Domain (poster)	#1205: Sven Aller and Mark Fishel: Adapting Audiovisual Speech Synthesis to Estonian (poster)
	#1206: Dosti Aziz and Dávid Sztahó: Dysphonia Diagnosis Using Self-Supervised Speech Models in Mono- and Cross-Lingual Settings (poster)	#1261: David Porteš and Aleš Horák: Generating High-Quality F0 Embeddings Using the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (poster)
	#1273: Abner Hernandez and Paula Andrea Perez-Toro and Tomas Arias-Vergara and Juan Camilo Vasquez-Correa and Seung Hee Yang and Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave and Andreas Maier: Anonymizing Dysarthric Speech: Investigating the Effects of Voice Conversion on Pathological Information Preservation (poster)	#1233: Ondřej Sotolář and Jaromír Plhák and David Šmahel: Leveraging Conceptual Similarities to Enhance Modeling of Factors Affecting Adolescents' Well-Being (poster)
	#1242: Niko Kleer and Leon Weyand and Michael Feld and Klaus Berberich: Capturing Task-Related Information for Text-Based Grasp Classification Using Fine-Tuned Embeddings (poster)	#1268: Julian Wolter and Niko Kleer and Michael Feld: StepDP: A Step Towards Expressive and Pervasive Dialogue Platforms (poster)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
	Section Text (Hall 5) chair: Karin Harbusch	Section Dialogue (Hall 4) chair: Daniel Tihelka
14:30	#1210: Julien Delaunay and Hanh Thi Hong Tran and Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo and Georgeta Bordea and Mathilde Ducos and Nicolas Sidere and Antoine Doucet and Senja Pollak and Olivier De Viron: CoastTerm: a Corpus for Multidisciplinary Term Extraction in Coastal Scientific Literature (oral)	#1222: Diego Alexander Lopez-Santander and Cristian David Rios-Urrego and Christian Bergler and Elmar Nöth and Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave: Robust Classification of Parkinson’s Speech: an Approximation to a Scenario With Non-controlled Acoustic Conditions (oral)
14:55	#1197: Vladimír Benko: The Aranea Corpora Family: Ten+ Years of Processing Web-Crawled Data (oral)	#1238: Ankit Kumar and Munir Georges: Joint-Average Mean and Variance Feature Matching (JAMVFM) Semi-supervised GAN with Additional-Objective Training Function for Intent Detection (oral)
15:20	#1256: Duygu Altinok: Bella Turca: A Large-Scale Dataset of Diverse Text Sources for Turkish Language Modeling (oral)	#1203: Lucas Druart and Valentin Vielzeuf and Yannick Estève: Investigating Low-Cost LLM Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Understanding Datasets (oral)
15:45	#1282: Anastasiia Aleksandrova and Joakim Nivre: Models and Strategies for Russian Word Sense Disambiguation: A Comparative Analysis (oral)	#1216: Daniel Ortega and Steven Söhnel and Ngoc Thang Vu: Improving and Understanding Clarifying Question Generation in Conversational Search (oral)
16:10	Coffee Break (Lounge)
16:25	Demo Session (Hall 4) chair: Zuzana Nevěřilová
	#1270: Di Wu, Munir Georges: A Pipeline for Automatic Construction and Applications of College Curriculum Knowledge Graph (demo)	#1300: Hana Žižková: Opravidlo: From Beta version to Opravidlo2.0 (demo)
	#1301: Martin Fajcik: A Leaderboard for BenCzechMark: A Czech-centric Multitask and Multimetric Benchmark for Language Models with Duel Scoring Mechanism (demo)	#1280: DigiEduBerlin Team: Greet the speaking book: Pupil Identification on Personal Primer Prototypes 1, 2, 4, 8 (demo)
	#1302: Michal Cukr: OneClick Terms: Bilingual Terminology Extraction (demo)	#1303: Zuzana Nevěřilová: Language Services (demo)
	#1304: Ondřej Herman: Unsupervised Sense Classification For Word Sketches (demo)
17:30
16:30	Program Committee Meeting (Hall 5)
17:30
18:00	Welcome Reception (Restaurant)
20:00

Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text/Speech (Hall 5) chair: Vladimír Benko	Section Speech (Hall 4) chair: Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave
09:00	#1192: Hanh Thi Hong Tran and Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo and Julien Delaunay and Antoine Doucet and Senja Pollak: Is Prompting What Term Extraction Needs? (oral)	#1244: Zdeněk Hanzlíček: Data Alignment and Duration Modelling in VITS (oral)
09:25	#1246: Zuzana Nevěřilová and Hana Žižková: Named Entity Linking in English-Czech Parallel Corpus (oral)	#1219: Erfan A. Shams and Julie Carson-Berndsen: Attention to Phonetics: A Visually Informed Explanation of Speech Transformers (oral)
09:50	#1247: Ilaria Manfredi: Multiword Expressions Resources for Italian: Presenting a Manually Annotated Spoken Corpus (oral)	#1208: Daniel Tihelka and Jindřich Matoušek and Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Lukáš Vladař: Sentences vs Phrases in Neural Speech Synthesis (oral)
10:15	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall 5) chair: Zuzana Nevěřilová	Section Dialogue (Hall 4) chair: Jan Lehečka
10:30	#1262: Kai Hartung and Sambit Mallick and Sören Gröttrup and Munir Georges: Evaluation Metrics in LLM Code Generation (oral)	#1212: Kwan-yeung Wong and Fu-lai Chung: PiCo-VITS: Leveraging Pitch Contours for Fine-grained Emotional Speech Synthesis (oral)
10:55	#1293: Mária Pappová and Matúš Valko: Mistrík's Readability Metric - an Online Library (oral)	#1271: Jeferson David Gallo-Aristizábal and Daniel Escobar-Grisales and Cristian David Ríos-Urrego and Elmar Nöth and Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave: Automatic Classification of Parkinson's Disease Using Wav2vec Embeddings at Phoneme, Syllable, and Word Levels (oral)
11:20	#1251: Randil Pushpananda and Chamila Liyanage and Ashmari Pramodya and Ruvan Weerasinghe: TamSiPara: A Tamil - Sinhala Parallel Corpus (oral)	#1217: Duygu Altinok: Explainable Multimodal Fusion for Dementia Detection from Text and Speech (oral)
11:45	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
12:45	Trip and Conference Dinner
23:00

Friday, September 13, 2024
Time
9:30	Preslav Nakov: Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models: Can we Keep LLMs Safe and Factual? - invited talk (Hall 5) chair: Ales Horak
10:30	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
	Section Text (Hall 5) chair: Petr Sojka	Section Speech (Hall 4) chair: Zdeněk Hanzlíček
10:45	#1287: Milan Straka and Jana Straková: Open-Source Web Service with Morphological Dictionary-Supplemented Deep Learning for Morphosyntactic Analysis of Czech (oral)	#1213: Jan Lehečka and Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jindřich Matoušek and Daniel Tihelka: Zero-Shot vs. Few-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS Using Pre-trained Czech SpeechT5 Model (oral)
11:10	#1209: Matej Klemen and Martin Božič and Špela Arhar Holdt and Marko Robnik-Šikonja: Neural Spell-Checker: Beyond Words with Synthetic Data Generation (oral)	#1241: Santiago A. Moreno-Acevedo and Juan Camilo Vasquez-Correa and Juan M. Martín-Doñas and Aitor Álvarez: Stream-Based Active Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition via Hybrid Data Selection and Continuous Learning (oral)
11:35	#1195: Michaela Denisová and Pavel Rychlý: Bilingual Lexicon Induction From Comparable and Parallel Data: A Comparative Analysis (oral)	#1289: Thibault Bañeras-Roux and Mickael Rouvier and Jane Wottawa and Richard Dufour: A Paradigm for Interpreting Metrics and Measuring Error Severity in Automatic Speech Recognition (oral)
12:00	#1191: Maixent Chenebaux and Tristan Cazenave: SeqCondenser: Inductive Representation Learning of Sequences by Sampling Characteristic Functions (oral)	#1234: Lukáš Vladař and Jindřich Matoušek: Effects of Training Strategies and the Amount of Speech Data on the Quality of Speech Synthesis (oral)
12:25	Closing Ceremony (Hall 5)
12:30	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30