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<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>**** Apologies if you receive multiple copies
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Extended deadlines:<BR>Submission of
papers: === April 5, 2002 ===<BR>Notification of acceptance May
7, 2002</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>Dear Colleague,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>submissions to the TSD 2002 conference (<A
href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</A>)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>are still coming. At the same time, we have
received many requests </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>to extend the deadline to allow submitting
other papers that are just </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>being finished. Please, make use of this
opportunity and submit a paper </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>to this important event in the area of natural
language processing!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>TSD 2002 Organizing Committee</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><FONT face="Arial CE" size=2>
<DIV><BR>*********************************************************<BR> TSD
2002 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR
PAPERS<BR>*********************************************************</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE<BR>(TSD
2002)<BR>Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002<BR><A
href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics,<BR>Masaryk
University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences,<BR>University of West
Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported <BR>by International Speech
Communication Association. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>TSD SERIES</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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
published by Springer-Verlag in <BR>their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>TOPICS</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include<BR>(but are not limited
to):<BR>text corpora;<BR>automatic morphology;<BR>word sense
disambiguation;<BR>lexical semantics and semantic networks;<BR>parsing and
part-of-speech tagging;<BR>machine translation;<BR>multi-lingual
issues;<BR>information retrieval;<BR>text/topic summarization;<BR>knowledge
representation and reasoning;<BR>speech modeling;<BR>speech coding;<BR>speech
segmentation;<BR>speech prosody;<BR>automatic speech
recognition;<BR>text-to-speech synthesis;<BR>speaker identification and
verification;<BR>dialogue systems;<BR>development of dialogue
strategies;<BR>prosody and emotions in dialogues;<BR>user modeling;<BR>assistive
technologies based on speech and dialogue;<BR>markup languages related to speech
and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Papers on processing of languages other than English<BR>are strongly
encouraged.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) <BR>Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive
chair) <BR>Eneko Agirre, Spain <BR>Genevieve Baudoin, France <BR>Attila Ferencz,
Romania <BR>Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. <BR>Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep.
<BR>Eduard Hovy, USA <BR>Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. <BR>Steven Krauwer, The
Netherlands <BR>Ramesh Krishnamurthy, GB <BR>Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep.
<BR>Elmar Noeth, Germany <BR>Karel Oliva, Austria <BR>Karel Pala, Czech Rep.
<BR>Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia <BR>Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. <BR>Josef Psutka,
Czech Rep. <BR>Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands <BR>E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini,
Germany <BR>Pavel Skrelin, Russia <BR>Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine <BR>Yorick Wilks,
GB </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Batusek Robert, Cenek Pavel, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, <BR>Janouskova
Dagmar, Komarkova Dana (secretary), <BR>Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), Pala Karel
(co-chair), Povolny Martin,<BR>Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Veber Marek,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The conference program will include oral presentations and
<BR>poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time <BR>for discussions of
the issues raised. The program will <BR>also involve short communications and
reports about ongoing <BR>projects. The latter types of contributions will not
appear <BR>in the Proceedings.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet <BR>connection
allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. <BR>The faculty network
provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) <BR>connection to the internet as
well.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The Wednesday afternoon of the conference is reserved for a trip <BR>to the
South Moravian region Lednice - Valtice. We will see the <BR>chateau at Lednice
with its large botanical gardens and <BR>beautiful surroundings. In the evening
there will be the <BR>conference dinner in the famous wine cellar in Valtice
chateau, <BR>where a traditional cembalon band will play. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TSD 2002 is supported by International Speech Communication <BR>Association
(ISCA). </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The organizing committee will provide grants for participants <BR>from East
European countries (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine, <BR>...). To apply for a
grant, send an email to <A
href="mailto:tsd2002@fi.muni.cz">tsd2002@fi.muni.cz</A> <BR>with subject 'Grant
Application', in which you briefly describe <BR>the reasons for your
application. Each applicant must send a <BR>separate e-mail.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 <BR>pages. Those
accepted will be presented as oral lectures. <BR>Authors are invited to submit a
short paper not exceeding 4 <BR>pages. Those accepted are for poster
presentation. The authors <BR>are asked to send their papers using the online
form accessible <BR>from the conference website (in the case of troubles they
may <BR>send the submission to <A
href="mailto:tsd2002@fi.muni.cz">tsd2002@fi.muni.cz</A> electronically).
<BR>Advance registration and payment for the conference fee is <BR>mandatory.
Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not <BR>allowed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX <BR>or
LaTeX formats. These formats are neccesary for the final <BR>versions of the
papers to be (that will be) published in the <BR>Springer Lecture Notes. The
paper format has to be either PDF or <BR>Postscript file with all required fonts
included. Upon <BR>notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further
<BR>information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic <BR>sources (for
detailed instructions on the final paper format see <BR><A
href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</A>.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed <BR>software or
interesting material relevant to the topics of the <BR>conference. The
demonstration papers will not appear in the <BR>Proceedings of TSD 2002. The
authors of the demonstration should <BR>provide the abstract not exceeding one
page.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>IMPORTANT DATES</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Submission of full papers and short papers (submitting a paper <BR>is
considered as preliminary registration):<BR>April 5, 2002</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Notification of acceptance sent to the authors:<BR>May 7, 2002</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Final papers (camera ready) and registration:<BR>May 31, 2002</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Submission of demonstration papers:<BR>July 31, 2002</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Conference date:<BR>September 9-12, 2002</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The contributions to the conference will be published in<BR>Proceedings
that will be made available to participants at<BR>the time of the
conference.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The official language of the conference is English.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>CONFERENCE FEES</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your <BR>status.
It includes one copy of the Proceedings, refreshments, <BR>social events and a
daytrip. The fee does not include <BR>accommodation and meals.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Full participant:<BR>Early payment (by May 15th): Euro 250<BR>Late
payment (by August 15th): Euro 300<BR>On-site payment: Euro
350</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Student:<BR>Early payment (by May 15th): Euro 150<BR>Late payment (by
August 15th): Euro 200<BR>On-site payment: Euro 250</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The payment may be refunded up until August 15th at the cost <BR>of 50
Euros. No refund is possible after this date.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>ACCOMMODATION</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a <BR>student
dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the <BR>Conference at a
reasonable price. The actual list of available <BR>hotels and prices will be
accessible at the website.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>ADDRESS</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dana Komarkova<BR>TSD 2002 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:tsd2002@fi.muni.cz">tsd2002@fi.muni.cz</A><BR>The official TSD 2002
homepage is: <A
href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>LOCATION</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,<BR>Masaryk
University, Brno, Czech Republic.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with
<BR>population of almost 400,000, and is the country's judiciary and
<BR>trade-fair centre. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in <BR>the
south-east part of the Czech Republic. It had been the King's <BR>town since
1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural <BR>center of the
region.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from <BR>Prague (200
km) or Vienna (130 km).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For the participants with some extra time, some nearby<BR>places may also
be of interest. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with <BR>Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three <BR>emperors (Napoleon,
Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle <BR>by Austerlitz), Chateau of
Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, <BR>Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau,
Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice <BR>Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest
Jewish cemeteries in <BR>Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO
and many <BR>others are all within an easy reach.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>