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Program

 

Thursday    17. 10. 2024

9:00 – 9:10  Conference opening and organizational information (Milan Rusko)

Session: Medical  treatment to detection of neurodegenerative diseases

9:10 – 9:30  Petra Brandoburová.  From paper-pen to automated analysis from speech : the story of neuropsychological assessment of neurodegenerative diseases in Slovakia. presentation

9:30 – 9:50  Simona Krakovská.  Assessment is not enough: cognitive training for people with Alzheimer’s disease. presentation

9:50 – 10:10  Sara Majsniarová.  Why memory and proper methods of assessment matter for Alzheimer’s disease.  presentation

10:10 – 10:30  Viktória Čiernik Kevická. The Role of a Speech Therapist in the Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Possibilities for Task Automation. presentation

10:30 – 10:50  Tomáš Benko, Kilvádyová Dominika, Strapcová Tatiana, Pánisz Pavol,  Garrard Peter and Cséfalvay Zsolt. Proposal for a digitalized slovak version of the mini language state examination – work in progress presentation

10:50 – 11:10   Coffee break

Session: Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases

11:10 – 11:30   Branislav Gerazov. Review of apps for treating Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases. presentation

11:30 – 11:50  Lucia Mareková and Štefan Beňuš. Robots in the eyes of Alzheimer patients. presenation presentation

11:50 – 12:10  Róbert Sabo, Marian Trnka and Milan Rusko. The use of a social robot as an assistant for recording speech of patients with Alzheimer disease. presentation

Lunch break     12:20 – 13:20

13:20 – 13:40  Rami Kammoun, Mohamed Salah Al-Radhi and Géza Németh. Enhancing expressive TTS synthesis for multilingual low-resource languages: challenges and applications presentation

13:40 – 14:00  Attila Zoltán Jenei, Gábor Kiss and Dávid Sztahó. Integrating multilingual acoustic and NLP models for  scalable and explainable dementia diagnosis: challenges and future proposal presentation

14:00 – 14:20  Artur Janicki and  Karolina Gabor-Siatkowska. Text-to-speech and avatars in treatment of auditory hallucinations presentation

14:20 – 14:40  Karolina Gabor-Siatkowska and Artur Janicki. On using a dialogue system in therapy of patients with schizophrenia presentation presentation

14:40 – 15:00   Aslı Kılıç and Ceren Cerasi. A look at the parasocial relationship between the streamer and the viewers: a sentiment analysis study presentation

15:00 – 15:20   Milan Rusko and Marian Trnka. Taxonomy of the acoustic space of the streamed computer games presentation

15:20 – 15:40   Coffee break

15:40 – 16:40  Parallel meetings: 4ACEs project meeting / 3PoCube project meeting

17:00 – 20:00   Social Program in Bratislava City Centre

 

Friday  18. 10. 2024

Session: Automatic speech processing technologies for support in medicine and crisis situations

9:00 – 9:20  Branislav Gerazov, Zoran Ivanovski and Dimitar Taskovski.  Macedonian assistive speech technologies for a more inclusive world presentation

9:20 – 9:40  Laxmi Kantham Durgam,  Ravi Kumar Jatoth, Daniel Hladek, Stanislav Ondas, Matúš Pleva and Jozef Juhar. Modified convolutional neural network for speaker age and gender classification. presentation

9:40 – 10:00  Eva Kiktova and Stanislav Ondáš.  Speech tests for hearing assessments in Romany language presentation

10:00 – 10:20   Coffee break

10:20 – 10:40  Matúš Pleva, Daniel Hládek.   Question answering dataset for information retrieval in Slovak. presentation

10:40 – 11:00  Roman Jarina and Maroš Jakubec.  Deep speaker embeddings for speech emotion recognition. presentation

11:00 – 11:20  Milan Rusko. Artificial intelligence and speech processing in Romani language.

11:20 – 11:40  Marian Trnka. Artificial intelligence and TTS to support living dialects. presentation

11:40  – 12:30   Lunch  break 

12:30- 13:30   VEGA project meeting