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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and
DIALOGUE (TSD 2006)</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The conference is organized by the Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied
Sciences, University of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>West Bohemia, Pilsen.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>The conference is supported by
International</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Speech Communication Association.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>VENUE: Brno, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Authors are invited to present actual projects,
developed software and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>hardware or interesting material relevant to the
topics of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>conference. The authors of the demonstrations
should provide the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The
submission must be</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>made using an online form available at the
conference www pages.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The accepted demonstrations will be presented
during a special</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions
at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>www.tsdconference.org).<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Demonstrators can present their
contribution</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>with their own notebook with an Internet
connection provided by the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC
computer with multimedia</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>support for demonstrators. Faculty of Informatics
has at its disposal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>a fast internet connection allowing internet-based
projects to be</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>demonstrated. The faculty network provides a
wireless (IEEE 802.11b -</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>WiFi) connection to the internet as
well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>July 23 2006 ............. Submission of
demonstration abstracts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>July 30 2006 ............. Notification of
acceptance for</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>demonstrations sent to the authors</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>September 11-15 2006 ..... Conference
date</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the
Proceedings of TSD</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>2006 but they will be published electronically at
the conference website.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>TSD SERIES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>TSD series evolved as a prime forum for
interaction between</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3>researchers in both spoken and written language
processing from the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>former East Block countries and their Western
colleagues. Proceedings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>TOPICS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Topics of the conference will include (but are not
limited to):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
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</SPAN>text corpora and tagging</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>transcription problems in spoken corpora</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>sense disambiguation</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>links between text and speech oriented systems</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken
texts</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue
systems</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>information retrieval and information extraction</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>text/topic summarization</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>machine translation</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>semantic networks and ontologies</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>semantic web</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>speech modeling</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>speech segmentation</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>speech recognition</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>search in speech for IR and IE</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>text-to-speech synthesis</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>prosody in dialogues</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>emotions and personality modeling</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>user modeling</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>applied systems and software</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>facial animation</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>visual speech synthesis</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Papers on processing of languages other than
English are strongly</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3>encouraged.</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair)</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair)</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Eneko Agirre, Spain</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Genevieve Baudoin, France</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Attila Ferencz, Romania</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Louise Guthrie, GB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Eduard Hovy, USA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Hermann Ney, Germany</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Elmar Noeth, Germany</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Karel Oliva, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Karel Pala, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Vladimr Petkevic, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Josef Psutka, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>James Pustejovsky, USA</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Pavel Skrelin, Russia</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Yorick Wilks, GB</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Victor Zakharov, Russia</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Eduard Hovy, USA</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Learning by Reading: An Experiment in Text Analysis</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Louise Guthrie, GB</FONT></DIV>
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face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Discovering anomalous material</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>James Pustejovsky, USA</FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Integrating semantic annotations</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The conference program will include oral
presentations and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time
for discussions of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>the issues raised. Papers will be presented in
plenary or topic</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>oriented sessions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The conference will welcome three keynote speakers
- Eduard Hovy,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Louise Guthrie and James Pustejovsky, and it will
offer two special</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>panels devoted to Emotions and Search in
Speech.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Social events including a trip in the vicinity of
Brno will allow for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>additional informal interactions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The official language of the conference is
English.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>CONFERENCE FEES</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The conference fee depends on the date of payment
and on your status.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>It includes one copy of the proceedings,
refreshments, local</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>transport, social events and organizing costs. The
fee does not</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>include accommodation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Full participant:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Late payment (by August 15):<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>CZK 10500</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>On-site payment:<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>CZK 12000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Student:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Late payment (by August 15):<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>CZK<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>6500</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>On-site payment:<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>CZK<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>8000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at
the cost</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>of CZK 1500. No refund is possible after this
date.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>All costs are in Czech Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK),
see e.g.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><A
href="http://www.xe.com/ucc/">http://www.xe.com/ucc/</A> for the current
exchange rate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>ACCOMMODATION</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The organizing committee has arranged discounts on
accommodation in a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>3-star hotel and student dormitories at reasonable
prices. The current</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>list of available accommodation and prices is
accessible at the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>registration page of the conference
website.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>ADDRESS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>All correspondence regarding the conference should
be</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>addressed to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2006</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
</SPAN>email: <A
href="mailto:tsd2006@tsdconference.org">tsd2006@tsdconference.org</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>The official TSD 2006 homepage is: <A
href="http://www.tsdconference.org">http://www.tsdconference.org</A>/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>LOCATION</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Brno is the second largest city in the Czech
Republic with a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>population of almost 400.000. The city is the
country's judiciary and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia,
which is in the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had
been a Royal City</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>since 1347 and with its six universities it forms
also a cultural</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>center of the region.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from
Prague, London and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Munich and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km)
or Vienna (130 km).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>For the participants with some extra time, some
nearby places may also</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>be of interest.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Local ones include: Brno Castle now
called Spilberk,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies
van der Rohe along</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>with other important buildings of between-war
Czech architecture.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian
Karst with Macocha</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of
three emperors</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz -
Battle by</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries
in Central Europe,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and
many others are all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"
face="Lucida Grande" size=3>within easy reach.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Lucida Grande"><BR></DIV>
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