Forwarded message from [sicstus-users@sics.se ] sent originally on Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:22:40 +0100: : This is a multi-part message in MIME format. : : ------ÿextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910 : Content-Type: text/plain; : charsetÿso-8859-2" : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable : : *************************************************** : TSD 2000 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS : *************************************************** : : 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. : 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 Republic : Ferencz Attila, Romania : Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic : Hanks Patrick, GB : Kilgariff Adam, GB : Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic : Kucera Pavel, Czech Republic : Matousek Vaclav, Czech Republic : Moon Rosamund, GB : Noeth Elmar, Germany : Pala Karel, Czech Republic : Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia : Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Republic : 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 sufficient time : for discussions of the issues raised. The program will : also involve short communications, reports about ongoing : projects and industrial presentations. The latter types : of contributions will not appear in the proceedings : and the deadline for their submission will be announced : later. Social events including a trip in the vicinity : of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. : : TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication : Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying : for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific : Conference). If the application is successful the organizing : committee would subsidize young researchers and participants : from East Europe significantly. : : 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 of the workshop is English. : : CONFERENCE FEE : : The conference fee is $150. The fee includes one copy of : the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and trip. : The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants : for the participants from the East European countries. : : ACCOMODATION : The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a student : dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the Conference : at a reasonable price. For the participants who prefer to : be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a room. : The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible : at the workshop website. : : 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 : : The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics, : Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech Republic. : : Brno is the capital of the region named 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 the King's town since 1347 : and with its six Universities it forms a cultural center : of the region. : : Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from : Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). : : For the participants with some 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 Tugendhat 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 the greatest : Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of : UNESCO and many others are all within an easy reach. : : ------ÿextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910 : 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 - : FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR : PAPERS<BR>***************************************************</FONT></DIV: > : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>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>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 Republic<BR>Ferencz Attila, : Romania<BR>Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic<BR>Hanks Patrick, : GB<BR>Kilgariff Adam, : GB<BR>Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic<BR>Kucera Pavel, Czech : Republic<BR>Matousek : Vaclav, Czech Republic<BR>Moon Rosamund, GB<BR>Noeth Elmar, : Germany<BR>Pala : Karel, Czech Republic<BR>Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia<BR>Petkevic Vladimir, ÿ
: Czech : Republic<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, Batusek Robert, : Gaura Pavel, : Horak Ales,<BR>Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), : <BR>Matousek : Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair),<BR>Sedlacek Radek, Smrz : Pavel, : Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan,<BR>Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, 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 sufficient time <BR>for discussions : of the : issues raised. The program will <BR>also involve short communications, : reports : about ongoing <BR>projects and industrial presentations. The latter : types <BR>of : contributions will not appear in the proceedings <BR>and the deadline : for their : submission will be announced<BR>later. 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>TSD 2000 is supported by : International Speech : Communication <BR>Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is : applying<BR>for a grant from the European Committee (High Level : Scientific : <BR>Conference). If the application is successful the : organizing<BR>committee : would subsidize young researchers and participants <BR>from East Europeÿ 0 : significantly.</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 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 address: </FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><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 of the : workshop is : English.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>CONFERENCE FEE</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>The conference fee is $150. The : fee includes : one copy of<BR>the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and : trip.<BR>The : organizing committee will provide discounts and grants<BR>for the : participants : from the East European countries.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2><BR>ACCOMODATION<BR>The organizing : committee : will arrange an accommodation in a student<BR>dormitories in a walking : distance : from the place of the Conference <BR>at a reasonable price. For the : participants : who prefer to <BR>be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a : room. : <BR>The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible : <BR>at the : workshop website.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>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>The conference will take place at ÿ
: the Faculty : of Informatics,<BR>Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech : Republic.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Brno is the capital of the region ÿ
: named : 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 the King's town since 1347<BR>and with its six : Universities it forms a cultural center<BR>of the region.</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Brno can be reached easily by : direct trains or : buses from <BR>Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).</FONT></DIV> : <DIV> </DIV> : <DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>For the participants with some : 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 Tugendhat 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 the greatest<BR>Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, : Telc - : the town on the list of<BR>UNESCO and many others are all within an easy : : reach.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> : : ------ÿextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910--
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