Corpora: TSD2002 - Second Announcement and Call for Papers

[Robert Batůšek]

Apologies for multiple copies of this document


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 TSD 2002 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2002)
Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002
http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/


The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported 
by International Speech Communication Association. 


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 published by Springer-Verlag in 
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.


TOPICS

Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include
(but are not limited to):
text corpora;
automatic morphology;
word sense disambiguation;
lexical semantics and semantic networks;
parsing and part-of-speech tagging;
machine translation;
multi-lingual issues;
information retrieval;
text/topic summarization;
knowledge representation and reasoning;
speech modeling;
speech coding;
speech segmentation;
speech prosody;
automatic speech recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
speaker identification and verification;
dialogue systems;
development of dialogue strategies;
prosody and emotions in dialogues;
user modeling;
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
markup languages related to speech and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...).

Papers on processing of languages other than English
are strongly encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) 
Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive chair) 
Eneko Agirre, Spain 
Genevieve Baudoin, France 
Attila Ferencz, Romania 
Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. 
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. 
Eduard Hovy, USA 
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. 
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands 
Ramesh Krishnamurthy, GB 
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. 
Elmar Noeth, Germany 
Karel Oliva, Austria 
Karel Pala, Czech Rep. 
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia 
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. 
Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. 
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands 
E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany 
Pavel Skrelin, Russia 
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine 
Yorick Wilks, GB 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Batusek Robert, Cenek Pavel, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, 
Janouskova Dagmar, Komarkova Dana (secretary), 
Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), Pala Karel (co-chair), Povolny Martin,
Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Veber Marek,


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include oral presentations and 
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time 
for discussions of the issues raised. The program will 
also involve short communications and reports about ongoing 
projects. The latter types of contributions will not appear 
in the proceedings.

Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet 
connection allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. 
The faculty network provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) 
connection to the internet as well.

The Wednesday afternoon of the conference is reserved for a trip 
to the South Moravian region Lednice - Valtice. We will see the 
chateau at Lednice with its large botanical gardens and 
beautiful surroundings. In the evening there will be the 
conference dinner in the famous wine cellar in Valtice chateau, 
where a traditional cembalon band will play. 

TSD 2002 is supported by International Speech Communication 
Association (ISCA). 

The organizing committee will provide grants for participants 
from East European countries (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine, 
...). To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2002 at fi.muni.cz 
with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe 
the reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a 
separate e-mail.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 
pages. Those accepted will be presented as oral lectures. 
Authors are invited to submit a short paper not exceeding 4 
pages. Those accepted are for poster presentation. The authors 
are asked to send their papers using the online form accessible 
from the conference website (in the case of troubles they may 
send the submission to tsd2002 at fi.muni.cz electronically). 
Advance registration and payment for the conference fee is 
mandatory. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not 
allowed.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX 
or LaTeX formats. These formats are neccesary for the final 
versions of the papers to be (that will be) published in the 
Springer Lecture Notes. The paper format has to be either PDF or 
Postscript file with all required fonts included. Upon 
notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further 
information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic 
sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.)

Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed 
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the 
conference. The demonstration papers will not appear in the 
Proceedings of TSD 2002. The authors of the demonstration should 
provide the abstract not exceeding one page.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers and short papers (submitting a paper 
is considered as preliminary registration):
March 15, 2002

Notification of acceptance sent to the authors:
April 30, 2002

Final papers (camera ready) and registration:
May 31, 2002

Submission of demonstration papers:
July 31, 2002

Conference date:
September 9-12, 2002

The contributions to the conference will be published in
proceedings that will be made available to participants at
the time of the conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your 
status. It includes one copy of the proceedings, refreshments, 
social events and a daytrip. The fee does not include 
accommodation and meals.

Full participant:
Early payment (by May 15th): Euro 250
Late payment (by August 15th): Euro 300
On-site payment:  Euro 350

Student:
Early payment (by May 15th): Euro 150
Late payment (by August 15th): Euro 200
On-site payment:  Euro 250

The payment may be refunded up until August 15th at the cost 
of 50 Euros. No refund is possible after this date.


ACCOMMODATION

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. The actual list of available 
hotels and prices will be accessible at the website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

Dana Komarkova
TSD 2002 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: tsd2002 at fi.muni.cz
The official TSD 2002 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/


LOCATION

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with 
population of almost 400,000, and is the country's judiciary and 
trade-fair centre. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in 
the south-east part of the Czech Republic. 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.

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