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)
