György Kovács - Böcker

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages, SPELLL 2024, held in Chennai, India, during December 4–6, 2024.The 44 full papers and 11 short papers  included in these conference proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions.They are divided into the following topical sections : Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding; Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics; Advancements in Multilingual NLP: Resources,Processing, and Generation; Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision and Robotics; Sentiment Analysis and Language-Specific Applications; Misinformation, Bias, and Mental Health Detection; Workshop 1: Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning in Low-Resource Languages (MMLow 2024);Workshop 2: Workshop on Low Resource Cross Domain, Cross Lingual, Cross Modal Content Analysis –Multimedia and Generative AI; Workshop 3: Workshop on Fake News Detection in Low-Resource Languages.

Prostate brachytherapy has been the subject of heated debate among surgeons and the proponents of the various brachytherapy methods. This very first interdisciplinary book on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of innovations in low dose rate (LDR), high dose rate (HDR), and pulsed dose rate (PDR) interstitial brachytherapy for the management of local or locally advanced prostate cancer. In addition to detailed chapters on patient selection and the use of imaging in diagnostics, treatment guidance, and implantation control, background chapters are included on related medical physics issues such as treatment planning and quality assurance. The results obtained with the different treatment options and the difficult task of salvage treatment are fully discussed. All chapters have been written by internationally recognized experts who for more than a decade have formed the teaching staff responsible for the successful GEC-ESTRO/EAU Prostate Brachytherapy Teaching Course.