Appel: TSD 2007

Fri Feb 23 16:08:39 UTC 2007

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:50:20 -0600
From: tsd at kiv.zcu.cz
Message-Id: <E1HKZsS-0005WN-LR at liks.fav.zcu.cz>
X-url: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007
X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html
X-url: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
X-url: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007

######################################################################

       An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                         September 3-7, 2007
                 http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007

                  Primavera Hotel & Congress centre
                    Plzeò (Pilsen), Czech Republic

######################################################################

[Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message]
[Our apologies if you are in our list by mistake, in this case 
 please, simply reply STOP in the subject line]

TSD 2007 is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno. TSD 2007 is also supported by International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA).

TOPICS

Topics of the international conference will include 
(but are not limited to): 

Language modelling, 
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 information extraction, 
text/topic summarization, 
machine translation, 
semantic networks and ontologies, 
semantic web, 
speech modelling, 
speech segmentation,
speech recognition, 
search in speech for IR and IE, 
text-to-speech synthesis, 
dialogue systems, 
development of dialogue strategies, 
prosody in dialogues, 
emotions and personality modelling, 
user modelling, 
knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems, 
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue, 
facial animation, 
visual speech synthesis.

The keynote topic of TSD 2007 Conference is language modelling.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 

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

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. A preliminary
conference program will be published at the conference www pages. One
day of the conference will be dedicated for tutorials and workshops.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) or short papers 
(max. 6 pages in the same format) sent according to instructions at the 
conference web page will be required to reach a decision about acceptance 
or rejection. The reviewing of the papers will be blind and managed by 
International Program Committee members.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be traditionally published by
Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series and will be distributed to the
participants at the conference.

LOCATION

Plzeò (Pilsen) is located in Western Bohemia on the confluence of four
rivers. With 170 thousand inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in
the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, cultural,
and administrative center.

Plzeò is well known for its brewing tradition. The trademark
Pilsner-Urquell penetrated all over the world thanks to the
traditional recipe, high quality hops and good wells. Beer lovers will
also appreciate a visit to the Brewery museum or the Brewery itself.

Apart from its famous beer, Plzeò has a lot of hidden treasures in its
core.  Plzeò can pride itself on the second largest synagogue in
Europe. The old city center is dominated by a 13th-century Gothic
church which features the highest tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is
possible to go up the stairs and admire the panorama. Not far from the
church is a splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of
pleasant cafes and pubs.

Plzeò has also a beautiful historical underground under the city
center there are 25 km of tunnels. Visitors can pass through the most
beautiful part of thislabyrinth.

It is also recommended to visit the zoo having the second largest
space for bears in Europe and keeping the Komodo dragons - large
lizards existing in only a few zoos in the world.

In the neighborhood of the city there are castle Radynì and
hunting-seat Kozel. St. Peter's Rotunda in Starý Plzenec was built in
the 10th century.

The University of West Bohemia in Plzeò provides a variety of courses
for both Czech and international students. It is the only institution
of higher education in this part of the country which prepares
students for careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical),
science (computer science, applied mathematics, physics, and
mechanics), education (both primary and secondary), economics,
philosophy, politology, archaeology, anthropology, foreign languages,
law and public administration, art and design.

GETTING THERE

The city has an access from the D5 highway connecting Prague (Praha)
with Germany. Plzeò has a very good bus and train connections with the
capital Prague (takes about 1 - 1.5 hour). From the international
airport Prague - Ruzynì you can reach Plzeò by frequent public
transport in 1.5 - 2 hours.

SOCIAL EVENTS

The international conference will also include social events and trips
i.e.  visit of brewery and city sightseeing.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Frederick Jelinek, USA			- general chair
Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland		- executive chair
Eneko Agirre, Spain			- text
Genevieve Baudoin, France		- speech
Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep.		- speech
Attila Ferencz, Romania			- speech
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico		- text
Louise Guthrie, GB			- text, speech
Jan Hajic,  Czech Rep.			- text, speech	
Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep.		- text, speech
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep.		- text
Ales Horak, Czech Rep.			- text
Eduard Hovy, USA			- text, speech
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep.		- text, speech
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands		- text
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia		- text
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep.		- speech
Hermann Ney, Germany			- speech
Elmar Noeth, Germany			- speech
Karel Oliva, Austria, Czech Rep.	- text
Karel Pala, Czech Rep. 			- text
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia 		- speech
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep.		- text
Fabio Pianesi, Italy			- speech
Josef Psutka, Czech Rep.		- speech
James Pustejovsky, USA			- text
Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, The Netherlands	- speech
Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany	- speech
Pavel Skrelin, Russia			- speech
Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep.			- text
Marko Tadic, Croatia			- text
Tamas Varadi, Hungary			- text
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland		- text, speech
Yorick Wilks, GB			- text
Victor Zacharov, Russia			- text, speech

IMPORTANT DATES

April 8, 2007			Deadline for submission of full papers
May 15, 2007 			Notification of acceptance or rejection 
May 31, 2007			Camera-ready papers submission
Sept. 3-7, 2007			TSD 2007

CONFERENCE FEES

The final conference fee depends on the date of payment and your status. 
The fee covers meals at the main conference time (Sept. 4 -6), 
refreshments, organizing costs, one copy of the conference proceedings 
and social events. The fee does not include accommodation.

Full participant:

early registration (by May 31st, 2007)	  - CZK 8.000,- (approx. 290 EUR)
late registration (by August 15th, 2007)  - CZK 9.500,- (approx. 340 EUR)
on-site registration 			  - CZK 11.000,- (approx. 390 EUR)

Student:

early registration (by May 31st, 2007)	  - CZK 6.500,- (approx. 240 EUR)
late registration (by August 15th, 2007)  - CZK 8.000,- (approx. 290 EUR)
on-site registration 			  - CZK 9.500,- (approx. 340 EUR)

One of the authors has to register and to pay the registration fee by 
May 31st, 2007 to include the paper submission into the conference 
proceedings. Please visit the conference web page to see detailed 
information.

The discounts and grants for participants from East European countries 
(Russia, Belarus, Ukraine...) are available. Please refer to 
http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html for other information.

All costs are in Czech Crowns (CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 
for the current exchange rate.

ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee has arranged accommodation at reasonable prices 
in the Primavera hotel and student dormitories. The current list of 
available accommodation is accessible on the conference website.

ADDRESS

All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed
to the department secretary:

Mrs. Helena Ptackova 
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen 
Faculty of Applied Sciences 
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14  PLZEN
Czech Republic 

Tel:	+420 377 632 401
Fax:	+420 377 632 402

E-mail communication should go to the conference PR
Mr. Kamil Ekstein at tsd at kiv.zcu.cz.

TSD 2007 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr>
Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48
English version       : 
Archives                 : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html
                                http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln

La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues)
Information et adhesion  : http://www.atala.org/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------