Appel: TSD-2000

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From: "Robert Batusek" <xbatusek at informatics.muni.cz>

***************************************************
 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),=20
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=20
a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time=20
for discussions of the issues raised. The program will=20
also involve short communications, reports about ongoing=20
projects and industrial presentations. The latter types=20
of contributions will not appear in the proceedings=20
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=20
Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying
for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific=20
Conference). If the application is successful the organizing
committee would subsidize young researchers and participants=20
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 at 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:=20

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=20
at a reasonable price. For the participants who prefer to=20
be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a room.=20
The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible=20
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
Botanick=E1 68a
CZ-602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359
fax: ++420 5 41 212 568
e-mail: tsd2000 at 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=20
Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, some nearby
places may also be of interest.=20

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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<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE"=20
size=3D2>***************************************************<BR> TSD=
 2000 -=20
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR=20
PAPERS<BR>***************************************************</FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Third International Workshop on =
TEXT, SPEECH=20
and DIALOGUE<BR>(TSD 2000)<BR>Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September=20
2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>TSD Series</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>TSD series evolved as a prime =
forum for=20
interaction between<BR>researchers in both spoken and written language=20
processing<BR>from the former East Block countries and their Western=20
colleagues.<BR>Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published<BR>by =

Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial<BR>Intelligence=20
series).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>TOPICS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop =
will=20
include<BR>(but are not limited to):<BR>text corpora and=20
tagging;<BR>transcription problems in spoken corpora;<BR>sense=20
disambiguation;<BR>links between text and speech oriented =
systems;<BR>parsing=20
issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;<BR>multi-lingual =
issues,=20
especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;<BR>information retrieval and=20
text/topic summarization;<BR>speech modeling;<BR>speech =
segmentation;<BR>speech=20
recognition;<BR>text-to-speech synthesis;<BR>dialogue =
systems;<BR>development of=20
dialogue strategies;<BR>prosody in dialogues;<BR>user =
modeling;<BR>knowledge=20
representation in relation to dialogue systems;<BR>assistive =
technologies based=20
on speech and dialogue;<BR>applied systems and software.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Papers on processing of languages =
other than=20
English<BR>are strongly encouraged.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Jelinek Frederick, USA (general=20
chair)<BR>Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair)<BR>Baudoin Genevieve,=20
France<BR>Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic<BR>Ferencz Attila,=20
Romania<BR>Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic<BR>Hanks Patrick, =
GB<BR>Kilgariff Adam,=20
GB<BR>Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic<BR>Kucera Pavel, Czech =
Republic<BR>Matousek=20
Vaclav, Czech Republic<BR>Moon Rosamund, GB<BR>Noeth Elmar, =
Germany<BR>Pala=20
Karel, Czech Republic<BR>Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia<BR>Petkevic Vladimir, =
Czech=20
Republic<BR>Psutka Josef, Czech Rep.<BR>Schukat-Talamazzini E.G.,=20
Germany<BR>Skrelin Pavel, Russia<BR>Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine<BR>Wilks =
Yorick,=20
GB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>ORGANIZING =
COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, =
Gaura Pavel,=20
Horak Ales,<BR>Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), =
<BR>Matousek=20
Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair),<BR>Sedlacek Radek, Smrz =
Pavel,=20
Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan,<BR>Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka =
Jan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>FORMAT OF THE =
WORKSHOP</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>TSD 2000 is an international =
workshop with a=20
limited number<BR>of participants and priority given to the active=20
participants.<BR>The workshop program will include oral presentations =
and <BR>a=20
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time <BR>for discussions =
of the=20
issues raised. The program will <BR>also involve short communications, =
reports=20
about ongoing <BR>projects and industrial presentations. The latter =
types <BR>of=20
contributions will not appear in the proceedings <BR>and the deadline =
for their=20
submission will be announced<BR>later. Social events including a trip in =
the=20
vicinity<BR>of Brno will allow for additional informal=20
interactions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>TSD 2000 is supported by =
International Speech=20
Communication <BR>Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is=20
applying<BR>for a grant from the European Committee (High Level =
Scientific=20
<BR>Conference). If the application is successful the =
organizing<BR>committee=20
would subsidize young researchers and participants <BR>from East Europe=20
significantly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>SUBMISSION OF =
PAPERS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Authors should submit extended =
abstracts not=20
exceeding 1000 words<BR>by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail =
address:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><A=20
href=3D"mailto:tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz">tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Submission must also include the =
author(s)=20
name, affiliation,<BR>address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail =
address.=20
Acceptance<BR>of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers=20
have<BR>to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the =
authors<BR>for=20
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions<BR>can be =
found at=20
the www address: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><A=20
href=3D"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=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Preliminary registration and =
deadline for=20
submission of extended<BR>abstracts:<BR>March 10, 2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Notification of acceptance sent to =
the=20
authors:<BR>April 30, 2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Final papers (camera ready) and=20
registration:<BR>May 30, 2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Workshop date:<BR>September 13-16, =

2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>The contributions to the workshop =
will be=20
published in<BR>proceedings that will be made available to participants=20
at<BR>the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last =
TSD<BR>workshop were=20
published by Springer-Verlag in the series<BR>Lecture Notes in =
Artificial=20
Intelligence and we anticipate<BR>the same format for TSD =
2000.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>The official language of the =
workshop is=20
English.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>CONFERENCE FEE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>The conference fee is $150. The =
fee includes=20
one copy of<BR>the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and =
trip.<BR>The=20
organizing committee will provide discounts and grants<BR>for the =
participants=20
from the East European countries.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>ACCOMODATION<BR>The organizing =
committee=20
will arrange an accommodation in a student<BR>dormitories in a walking =
distance=20
from the place of the Conference <BR>at a reasonable price. For the =
participants=20
who prefer to <BR>be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a =
room.=20
<BR>The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible =
<BR>at the=20
workshop website.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>ADDRESS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>All correspondence regarding the =
workshop=20
should be addressed to:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Dana Komarkova<BR>TSD 2000 c/o =
Faculty of=20
Informatics<BR>Masaryk University<BR>Botanick=E1 68a<BR>CZ-602 00 =
Brno<BR>Czech=20
Republic<BR>telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359<BR>fax: ++420 5 41 212 =
568<BR>e-mail:=20
<A href=3D"mailto:tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz">tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz</A><BR>The =
official TSD=20
2000 homepage is: <A=20
href=3D"http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/</A=
></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2><BR>VENUE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>The conference will take place at =
the Faculty=20
of Informatics,<BR>Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech=20
Republic.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Brno is the capital of the region =
named=20
Moravia, which is<BR>placed in the south-east part of the Czech =
Republic, and=20
the<BR>second largest town in the Czech Republic (with =
population<BR>about half=20
a million). It had been the King's town since 1347<BR>and with its six=20
Universities it forms a cultural center<BR>of the region.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>Brno can be reached easily by =
direct trains or=20
buses from <BR>Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>For the participants with some =
extra time,=20
some nearby<BR>places may also be of interest. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>The local ones include:<BR>Brno =
Castle now=20
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=20
St. James, Bishops<BR>Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian =
Monastery in=20
Kralovo Pole,<BR>famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der =
Rohe<BR>and=20
other important buildings of between-war Czech =
architecture.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>For those willing to venture out =
of=20
Brno,<BR>Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, =
battlefield<BR>of=20
Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and<BR>Austrian =
Franz -=20
battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov<BR>(Austerlitz), Pernstejn =
Castle,=20
Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau,<BR>Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice =
Chateau,=20
Mikulov with one of the greatest<BR>Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, =
Telc -=20
the town on the list of<BR>UNESCO and many others are all within an easy =

reach.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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