12.557, Calls: Sharing Tools/Resources, Text/Speech/Dialogue
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Subject: 12.557, Calls: Sharing Tools/Resources, Text/Speech/Dialogue
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:49:53 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Sharing Tools and Resources (ACL2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:47:51 +0100 (MET)
From: tsd2001 Matousek <tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz>
Subject: Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:49:53 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Sharing Tools and Resources (ACL2001)
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
ACL/EACL Workshop on
Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education
Co-organised by ELSNET
Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001
BACKGROUND:
At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures
for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main
professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and
ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to
aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools
and materials for the language and speech communities.
An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99
concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be
instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in
NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials,
appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point
of departure.
This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous
workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for
sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical
problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural
issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories.
Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others
the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI,
registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the
distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC,
TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories
(http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA , http://www.ldc.upenn.edu ,
http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html ),
OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at
http://www.language-archives.org ), and JEWELS
(http://www.elsnet.org/jewels ), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for
educational materials in Language and Speech.
A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as
sources of data or inspiration.
AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:
The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the
improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational
uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds
of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the
achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the
workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of
general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and
resources is essential for the progress of research and education in
our field.
Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address
the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather
than exhaustive:
* Repositories versus catalogues
* Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content
* Repository management
* Standards for exchange, description, and annotation
* Metadata descriptions
* Quality assessment
* Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository
* Tools and materials for NLP/CL education
* Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS
* Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following
the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
references. You can download the appropriate style or template
files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style
In case of problems with the submission format, please contact
one of the co-chairs.
* Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck).
All submissions will be acknowledged.
* Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and
indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
* Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper.
* Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either
co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements
over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access
provided by default
CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerck at dfki.de
- Mike Rosner (Malta) Co-chair (Education) mros at cs.um.edu.mt
- Steven Bird (U. Penn)
- Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb at co.umist.ac.uk
- Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) gosse at let.rug.nl
- Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen) desmedt at uib.no
- Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent at loria.fr
- Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) steven.krauwer at elsnet.org
- Donna Harman (NIST)
- Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA)
- Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo)
- Andy Way (Dublin City University) away at compapp.dcu.ie
- Antonio Zampolli (Univ. of Pisa) pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it
DEADLINES
* Submission Deadline: 6th April 2001
* Notification Date: 27th April 2001
* Camera ready copy due: 16th May 2001
WORKSHOP URL
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-tools.html
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Michael Rosner mros at cs.um.edu.mt
Thierry Declerck declerck at dfki.de
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:47:51 +0100 (MET)
From: tsd2001 Matousek <tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz>
Subject: Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001)
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An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001)
September 10 - 13, 2001
Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic
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S E C O N D A N N O U N C E M E N T
A N D
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
_____________________________________________________________________
TSD 2001 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen), and the Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, under the auspices of the Dean
of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia.
Conference topics:
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TSD 2001 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural
language processing, in particular:
- corpora, texts and transcription;
- speech analysis, recognition and synthesis;
- their interrelationship within NL dialogue systems.
Topics of the TSD 2001 Conference will include:
- 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;
- multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems;
- information retrieval and text/topic summarization;
- speech modeling;
- speech segmentation;
- speech recognition;
- text-to-speech synthesis;
- speech and motions;
- dialogue systems;
- development of dialogue strategies;
- assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
- applied systems and software.
The official language of the event will be English, but papers on
issues relating to text and speech processing in languages other than
English are strongly encouraged.
Format of the conference:
- ---------------------
TSD 2001 will be an international conference with a limited number of
active participants. The conference program will include presentation
of three invited papers by keynote speakers, a limited number of
general oral presentations, and a poster / demonstration sessions.
Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
A special feature of the conference will be thematically oriented
poster sections supported by short oral presentations.
Proceedings:
- ----------
The papers will be printed and distributed to participants at the
conference. The proceedings will also be published by Springer Verlag
in the series Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
Venue:
- ----
The conference will take place at the Hotel Horizont in the Sumava
Mountains. The hotel is situated 1100 m above sea level in the
Bohemian Forest Nature Preserve, 3 km from the centre of Zelezna Ruda
town.
Social events:
- ------------
The conference will also include social events and trips to some of
the most beautiful places in Sumava - the Sumava National Park, Black
Lake, Devil's Lake, Laka Lake, the city of Klatovy, Klenova Castle,
and Grosser Arber in Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border.
How to reach Zelezna Ruda:
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Zelezna Ruda has very good train connections with Prague, Pilsen and
Munich. Distances from the nearest airports (Prague-Ruzyne, Munich)
to Zelezna Ruda are about 200 km. More detailed travel information
will be posted on the TSD 2001 Web site in due course.
Registration Cost:
- ----------------
Registration fee is $220 (including meals, accommodation, organizing
costs, conference proceedings, social events). Student reductions
will be available.
Accommodation:
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The Hotel Horizont has 90 double rooms. Each room has its own shower,
toilet, telephone, and TV set. The hotel also offers the usual hotel
services.
Dates to Note:
- --------------
March 15, 2001 Preliminary registration and deadline for
submission of papers
April 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 30, 2001 Camera-ready paper submission
Sept. 10-13, 2001 TSD 2001
International program committee:
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Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair
Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair
Genevieve Baudoin, France - speech
Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep. - text
Attila Ferencz, Romania,S.Korea - speech
Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. - text, speech
Patrick Hanks, USA - text
Eduard Hovy, USA - text, speech
Adam Kilgariff, GB - text
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. - speech, text
Steven Krauwer, Netherland - text
Karel Kucera, Czech Rep. - text
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. - speech
Rosamund Moon, GB - text
Elmar Noeth, Germany - speech
Karel Pala, Czech Rep. - text
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia - speech
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. - text
Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. - speech
E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany - speech
Pavel Skrelin, Russia - speech
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine - speech
Yorick Wilks, GB - text
Organizing committee:
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Vaclav Matousek (chair)
Helena Benesova
Kamil Ekstein
Jana Hesova
Svatava Kindlova
Jana Kleckova
Ivan Kopecek
Jana Krutisova
Josef Masek
Pavel Mautner
Roman Moucek
Jana Ocelikova
Karel Pala
Pavel Slavik
Petr Sojka
Karel Tauser
Registration:
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The registration fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to:
Komercni banka Plzen-mesto,
Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen
account number : 4811530257/0100
purchase order : 5204/0003/00
special ID code: your birth date in the form YYMMDD (year - month
- day), e.g. 550425
account holder: University of West Bohemia,
Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen
stating: TSD 2001 and your name
Submission of papers:
- -------------------
Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) will be required
to enable the program committee to reach a decision about acceptance
or rejection. Preliminary versions of full papers submitted for
acceptance could be prepared in ASCII format. Papers should be
submitted to the TSD 2001 Secretariat, preferably by email
(tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz), by March 15th, 2001. Please contact the
Conference Secretariat if receipt of your email submission is not
acknowledged within 7 days. It is intended to post abstracts
of papers that have been accepted on the TSD 2001 Web site in
advance of the conference.
Please include the following information with your paper:
- title of paper, author name(s), author(s) affiliation(s)
- e-mail/address/fax of author(s)/contact(s)
- presentation preference: oral or poster/demonstration.
Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send their papers in
LateX and PostScript form (in LNCS format) to the Conference
Secretariat by e-mail before June 1st. LaTeX word processor is
required. Format instructions ( and LNCS LaTeX format ) will be
available to authors on the TSD 2001 Web site.
The conference proceedings will, as in previous years, be published
by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI series (references for previous
sets of proceedings: LNAI 1692 and LNAI 1902).
Conference secretariat:
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All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms. Helena Benesova
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 8
CZ - 306 14 PLZEN
Czech Republic
Tel: (+420 19) 7491 212, 27 62 50
Fax: (+420 19) 7491 213
E-mail: tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz
To obtain more information please visit the TSD 2001 Web site:
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001
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TSD 2001, September 10-13, 2001, Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic
Preliminary registration
Please return this form to the Conference Secretariat
Name:
Affiliation:
Address:
Phone: Fax:
E-mail:
I would like to participate in TSD 2001 as a
[ ] Full participant [ ] Student
[ ] I propose to submit a full paper entitled:
Preferred mode of presentation: [ ] oral [ ] demo / poster
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