Preliminary conference program

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Preliminary 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.

9:30 – 9:50     Simona Krakovská.  Assessment is not enough: cognitive training for people with Alzheimer’s disease. 9:50 – 10:10   Sara Majsniarová.  Why memory and proper methods of assessment matter for Alzheimer’s disease. 10:10 – 10:30 Viktória Čiernik Kevická. The Role of a Speech Therapist in the Diagnostics and/or Rehabilitation of Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Possibilities for Task Automation. 10:30 – 10:50 Tomáš, Benko. Proposal for a Digitalized Slovak Version of the Mini Language State Examination – work in progress

10:50 – 11:10   Coffe 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. 11:30 – 12:50  Lucia Mareková, Štefan Beňuš.  Robots in the eyes of Alzheimer patients. 12:50 – 12:10 Róbert Sabo, Marian Trnka, Milan Rusko. The use of a social robot as an assistant for recording speech of patients with Alzheimer Dissese.

Lunch      12:20 – 13:20

13:20 – 13:40  Rami Kammoun, Mohamed Salah Al-Radhi, Géza Németh.  Enhancing Expressive TTS Synthesis for Multilingual Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Applications 13:40 – 14:00  Attila Zoltán Jenei, Gábor Kiss, Dávid Sztahó   Integrating Multilingual Acoustic and NLP Models for  Scalable and Explainable Dementia Diagnosis: Challenges and Future Proposal 14:00 – 14:20   Arthur Janicki et al. …to be specified…..

14:20 – 14:40     Coffe break

14:40 – 15:00  Milan Rusko. Taxonomy of the acoustic space of the streamed computer games 15:00 – 15:20   Ceren Cerasi  A Look At The Parasocial Relationship Between The Streamer And The Viewers: A Sentiment Analysis Study

15:20 – 16:30    4ACEs 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 9:20 – 9:40     Laxmi Kantham Durgam,  Ravi Kumar Jatoth, Daniel Hladek, Stanislav Ondas, Matúš Pleva and Jozef Juhar. Age and Gender Estimation from Speech using various Deep Learning and Dimensionality Reduction Techniques. 9:40 – 10:00   Eva Kiktova.  Speech tests for hearing assessments in Romany language

10:00 – 10:20   Coffe break

10:20 – 10:40   Pleva, Hládek.   Question Answering Dataset for Information Retrieval in Slovak. 10:40 – 11:00     Eugen Ružický.  Using virtual reality and speech recognition to create specialized databases for prediction.

11:00  – 12:00   Lunch  break 

12:00- 13:30   VEGA project meeting

13:30 – 13:40 Conference closing (M.Rusko)