Forwarded message from [xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz (Robert Batusek)] sent originally on Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:28:45 +0100: : This is a multi-part message in MIME format. : : ------ÿextPart_000_005F_01BF301D.5CE24220 : Content-Type: text/plain; : charsetÿso-8859-2" : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable : : *********************************** : TSD 2000 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT : *********************************** : : The Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE : (TSD 2000) : Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000 : : TSD Series : : TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between : researchers in both spoken and written language processing : from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. : Being held in Czech Republic, the cost of attending is very : reasonable. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published : by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial : Intelligence series). : : TOPICS : : Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include : (but are not limited to): : 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 text/topic summarization; : 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. : : Papers on processing of languages other than English : are strongly encouraged. : : PROGRAM COMMITTEE : : Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair) : Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair) : Baudoin Genevieve, France : Cermak Frantisek, Czech Rep. : Ferencz Attila, Romania : Hajicova Eva, Czech Rep. : Hanks Patrick, GB : Kilgariff Adam, GB : Kopecek Ivan, Czech Rep. : Kucera Pavel, Czech Rep. : Matousek Vaclav, Czech Rep. : Moon Rosamund, GB : Noeth Elmar, Germany : Norling-Christensen Ole, Denmark : Pala Karel, Czech Rep. : Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia : Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Rep. : Psutka Josef, Czech Rep. : Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany : Skrelin Pavel, Russia : Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine : Wilks Yorick, GB : : ORGANIZING COMMITTEE : : Bartek Ludek : Batusek Robert : Gaura Pavel : Horak Ales : Komarkova Dana (secretary) : Kopecek Ivan (co-chair) : Matousek Vaclav : Nygryn Pavel : Pala Karel (co-chair) : Sedlacek Radek : Smrz Pavel : Sojka Petr : Staudek Jan : Veber Marek : Zackova Eva : Zizka Jan : : FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP : : TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number : of participants and priority given to the active participants. : The workshop program will include oral presentations and : a poster/demonstration sessions with time for discussions of the : issues raised. Social events including a trip in the vicinity : of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. : : SUBMISSION OF PAPERS : : Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words : by March 10, 2000 : to the e-mail address: : : tsd2000@fi.muni.cz : : Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, : address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance : of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have : to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors : for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions : can be found at the www : : address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html : : IMPORTANT DATES : : Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended : abstracts: : March 10, 2000 : : Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: : April 30, 2000 : : Final papers (camera ready) and registration: : May 30, 2000 : : Workshop date: : September 13-16, 2000 : : The contributions to the workshop will be published in : proceedings that will be made available to participants at : the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD : workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate : the same format for TSD 2000. : : OFFICIAL LANGUAGE : : The official language is English. : : ADDRESS : : All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: : : Dana Komarkova : TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics : Masaryk University : Botanická 68a : CZ-602 00 Brno : Czech Republic : telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 : fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 : e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz : The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ : : VENUE : : Brno, Czech Republic : : Brno is the capital of the region known as Moravia which is : placed in the south-east part of the Czech Republic, and the : second largest town in the Czech Republic (with population : about half a million). It had been a king's town since 1347 : and with its six Universities it forms a cultural centre : of the region. : : Brno can be reached easily by direct trains from : Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). : : For those participants with some little extra time, some nearby : places may also be of interest. : : The local ones include: : Brno castle now called Spilberk, Veveri castle, Old and New : City halls, the Augustine monastery with St. Thomas church : and crypt of Moravian margraves, church of St. James, bishops : church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian monastery in Kralovo Pole, : famous villa Tugendhadt designed by Mies van der Rohe : and other important buildings of between war Czech architecture. : : For those willing to venture out of Brno, : Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield : of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and : Austrian Franz - battle by Austerlitz), chateau of Slavkov : (Austerlitz), Pernstejn castle, Buchlov castle, Lednice chateau, : Buchlovice chateau, Letovice chateau, Mikulov with one of greatest : Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the list of : UNESCO and many others are all within an easy reach. : : ------ÿextPart_000_005F_01BF301D.5CE24220 : Content-Type: text/html; : charsetÿso-8859-2" : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable : : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> : <HTML><HEAD> : <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2" : http-equiv=Content-Type> : <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> : <STYLE></STYLE> : </HEAD> : <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" : size=2>***********************************<BR>TSD : 2000 - PRELIMINARY : ANNOUNCEMENT<BR>***********************************</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>The Third International Workshop : on TEXT, : SPEECH and DIALOGUE<BR>(TSD 2000)<BR>Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 : September : 2000</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>TSD Series</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>TSD series evolved as a prime : forum for : interaction between<BR>researchers in both spoken and written language : processing<BR>from the former East Block countries and their Western : colleagues.<BR>Being held in Czech Republic, the cost of attending is : very<BR>reasonable. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently : published<BR>by : Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial<BR>Intelligence : series).</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>TOPICS</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop : will : include<BR>(but are not limited to):<BR>text corpora and : tagging;<BR>transcription problems in spoken corpora;<BR>sense : disambiguation;<BR>links between text and speech oriented : systems;<BR>parsing : issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;<BR>multi-lingual : issues, : especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;<BR>information retrieval andÿ 0 : text/topic summarization;<BR>speech modeling;<BR>speech : segmentation;<BR>speech : recognition;<BR>text-to-speech synthesis;<BR>dialogue : systems;<BR>development of : dialogue strategies;<BR>prosody in dialogues;<BR>user : modeling;<BR>knowledge : representation in relation to dialogue systems;<BR>assistive : technologies based : on speech and dialogue;<BR>applied systems and software.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Papers on processing of languages ÿ
: other than : English<BR>are strongly encouraged.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Jelinek Frederick, USA (general : chair)<BR>Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair)<BR>Baudoin Genevieve, : France<BR>Cermak Frantisek, Czech Rep.<BR>Ferencz Attila, : Romania<BR>Hajicova : Eva, Czech Rep.<BR>Hanks Patrick, GB<BR>Kilgariff Adam, GB<BR>Kopecek : Ivan, : Czech Rep.<BR>Kucera Pavel, Czech Rep.<BR>Matousek Vaclav, Czech : Rep.<BR>Moon : Rosamund, GB<BR>Noeth Elmar, Germany<BR>Norling-Christensen Ole, : Denmark<BR>Pala : Karel, Czech Rep.<BR>Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia<BR>Petkevic Vladimir, : Czech : Rep.<BR>Psutka Josef, Czech Rep.<BR>Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., : Germany<BR>Skrelin : Pavel, Russia<BR>Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine<BR>Wilks Yorick, : GB</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>ORGANIZING : COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Bartek Ludek<BR>Batusek : Robert<BR>Gaura : Pavel<BR>Horak Ales<BR>Komarkova Dana (secretary)<BR>Kopecek Ivan : (co-chair)<BR>Matousek Vaclav<BR>Nygryn Pavel<BR>Pala Karel : (co-chair)<BR>Sedlacek Radek<BR>Smrz Pavel<BR>Sojka Petr<BR>Staudek : Jan<BR>Veber : Marek<BR>Zackova Eva<BR>Zizka Jan</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>FORMAT OF THE : WORKSHOP</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>TSD 2000 is an international : workshop with a : limited number<BR>of participants and priority given to the active : participants.<BR>The workshop program will include oral presentations : and <BR>a : poster/demonstration sessions with time for discussions of the<BR>issues : raised. : Social events including a trip in the vicinity<BR>of Brno will allow for : : additional informal interactions.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>SUBMISSION OF : PAPERS</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Authors should submit extended : abstracts not : exceeding 1000 words<BR>by March 10, 2000<BR>to the e-mail : address:</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><A : href="mailto:tsd2000@fi.muni.cz">tsd2000@fi.muni.cz</A></FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Submission must also include the : author(s) : name, affiliation,<BR>address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail : address. : Acceptance<BR>of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papersÿ 0 : have<BR>to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the : authors<BR>for : Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions<BR>can be : found at : the www</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>address: <A : href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springe: r.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</A></FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Preliminary registration and : deadline for : submission of extended<BR>abstracts:<BR>March 10, 2000</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Notification of acceptance sent to : the : authors:<BR>April 30, 2000</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Final papers (camera ready) and : registration:<BR>May 30, 2000</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Workshop date:<BR>September 13-16, : : 2000</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>The contributions to the workshop ÿ
: will be : published in<BR>proceedings that will be made available to participantsÿ 0 : at<BR>the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last : TSD<BR>workshop were : published by Springer-Verlag in the series<BR>Lecture Notes in : Artificial : Intelligence and we anticipate<BR>the same format for TSD : 2000.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>The official language is : English.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>ADDRESS</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>All correspondence regarding the : workshop : should be addressed to:</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Dana Komarkova<BR>TSD 2000 c/o : Faculty of : Informatics<BR>Masaryk University<BR>Botanická 68a<BR>CZ-602 00 : Brno<BR>Czech : Republic<BR>telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359<BR>fax: ++420 5 41 212 : 568<BR>e-mail: : <A href="mailto:tsd2000@fi.muni.cz">tsd2000@fi.muni.cz</A><BR>The : official TSD : 2000 homepage is: <A : href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/</A: ></FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>VENUE</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Brno, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Brno is the capital of the region ÿ
: known as : Moravia which is<BR>placed in the south-east part of the Czech Republic, : and : the<BR>second largest town in the Czech Republic (with : population<BR>about half : a million). It had been a king's town since 1347<BR>and with its six : Universities it forms a cultural centre<BR>of the region.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Brno can be reached easily by : direct trains : from <BR>Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>For those participants with some : little extra : time, some nearby<BR>places may also be of interest. </FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>The local ones include:<BR>Brno : castle now : called Spilberk, Veveri castle, Old and New<BR>City halls, the Augustine : : monastery with St. Thomas church<BR>and crypt of Moravian margraves, : church of : St. James, bishops<BR>church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian : monastery in : Kralovo Pole,<BR>famous villa Tugendhadt designed by Mies van der : Rohe<BR>and : other important buildings of between war Czech : architecture.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>For those willing to venture out : of : Brno,<BR>Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, : battlefield<BR>of : Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and<BR>Austrian : Franz - : battle by Austerlitz), chateau of Slavkov<BR>(Austerlitz), Pernstejn : castle, : Buchlov castle, Lednice chateau,<BR>Buchlovice chateau, Letovice : chateau, : Mikulov with one of greatest<BR>Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, : Telc - a : town on the list of<BR>UNESCO and many others are all within an easy : reach.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> : : ------ÿextPart_000_005F_01BF301D.5CE24220--
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