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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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F I R S T 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
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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 intertwinnig within NL dialogue systems.
Topics of the TSD 2001 Conference 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;
- 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:
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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 attention will be paid to the arrangement of thematic oriented
poster sections extended by short oral presentations.
Proceedings:
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The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the
series of Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
Venue:
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The international conference will take place in the comfortable hotel
Horizont in Sumava Mountains. The hotel is located 1100 m above sea
level in the Bohemian Forest Nature Preserve and 3 km far from the
centre of Zelezna Ruda town.
Social events:
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The international conference will also include some social events and
trips to the most popular places - Sumava National Park, Black and
Devil's lake, Laka lake, district 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 of the nearest airports (Prague-Ruzyne, Munich)
from Zelezna Ruda are about 200 km. More detailed travel information
will be posted on the TSD 2001 Web site in due course.
Registration Cost:
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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, nd TV set. The hotel also offers many attractive
hotel services.
Important dates:
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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 - speech
Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. - text, speech
Patrick Hanks, GB - 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:
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Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) will be required to
reach a decision about acceptance or rejection. First versions of
papers submitted for acceptance could be prepared in ASCII format
only. Full papers should be submitted to the TSD 2001 Secretariat,
preferably by email ([log in to unmask]), 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 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 be traditionally published by
Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (numbers of previous 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: [log in to unmask]
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:
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I would like to participate in TSD 2001 as a
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