natural language processing, corpora, texts and transcription, speech analysis, recognition and synthesis, NL dialogue systems, 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, multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems, information retrieval and information extraction, text/topic summarization, machine translation, semantic networks and ontologies, speech modeling, speech segmentation, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, dialogue systems, development of dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues, user modeling, knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems, assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue, applied systems and software, facial animation, visual speech synthesis
