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Please forward it to everyone who might be interested. _______________________________________________________________________ TTTTTTTT SSSS DDDDD 2222 0000 0000 33333 TT SSS SSS DD DDD 222 222 000 000 000 000 33 3333 TT SSS DD DDD 222 000 000 000 000 333 TT SSSS DD DD 222 000 000 000 000 333 TT SSS DD DDD 222 000 000 000 000 333 TT SSS SSS DD DDD 2222 000 000 000 000 33 3333 TT SSSS DDDDD 22222222 0000 0000 33333 _______________________________________________________________________ An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2003) September 8 - 11, 2003 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic _______________________________________________________________________ S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S W I T H A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N _______________________________________________________________________ TSD 2003 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. TSD 2003 is also supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Conference topics: ------------------ TSD 2003 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular: - corpora - texts and transcription - speech analysis - recognition and synthesis - their intertwining within NL dialog systems Topics of the international 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 dialog systems - information retrieval and text/topic summarization - speech modelling - speech segmentation - speech recognition - text-to-speech synthesis - speech and motions - dialog systems - development of dialog strategies - user modelling - knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems - assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue - applied systems and software - facial animation - visual speech synthesis 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: ------------------------- TSD 2003 will be an international conference with a limited number of active participants. The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a poster / demonstration session. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. A special feature of the conference will be thematically oriented poster sections supported by short oral presentations and the demonstration session. Proceedings: ------------ The papers will be printed and distributed to the participants at the conference. The proceedings will be traditionally published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, numbers of previous proceedings - LNAI 1692, 1902, 2166, and LNAI 2448. Venue: ------ The international conference will take place in the comfortable hotel Gomel in Ceske Budejovice. The historical city of Ceske Budejovice is situated in the center of the South Bohemian region, near Austria and Germany. Social events: -------------- The international conference will also include some social events, trip to the mountains "Blansky les" and trip to the historical urban reservation of Cesky Krumlov. Registration costs: ------------------- The registration fee depends on the day of payment. The fee covers meals, refreshment, accommodation, organizing costs, conference proceedings and social events. - early registration (by July 31st, 2003) - 380 Euro - late registration (by August 31st, 2003) - 420 Euro - on-site registration - 450 Euro One of the authors has to register and to pay the registration fee by June 30th, 2003 to be included in the conference proceedings. Student reductions will be available, participants from developing countries can apply for the ISCA grants. Important data: --------------- March 31, 2003 Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of full papers May 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2003 Camera-ready paper submission Sept. 8-11, 2003 TSD 2003 International Program Committee: -------------------------------- Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair Eneko Agirre (Spain) Genevieve Baudoin (France) Jan Cernocky (Czech Rep.) Attila Ferencz (Romania) Eva Hajicova (Czech Rep.) Jaroslava Hlavacova (Czech Rep.) Eduard Hovy (USA) Ivan Kopecek (Czech Rep.) Steven Krauwer (Netherland) Vaclav Matousek (Czech Rep.) Rosamund Moon (GB) Elmar Noeth (Germany) Karel Oliva (Austria) Karel Pala (Czech Rep) Nikola Pavesic (Slovenia) Vladimir Petkevic (Czech Rep.) Josef Psutka (Czech Rep.) James Pustejovsky (USA) L.J.M. Rothkrantz (Netherland) E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini (Germany) Pavel Skrelin (Russia) Taras Vintsiuk (Ukraine) Yorick Wilks (GB) Registration: ------------- The registration fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen SWIFT CODE : KOMBCZPP account number : 4811530257/0100 purchase order : 5204/0002/02 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 2003 and your name Submission of papers: --------------------- Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) or short papers (max. 6 pages in the same format) will be required to reach a decision about acceptance or rejection. Preliminary versions of papers should be submitted to the TSD 2003 Conference Secretariat, preferably by email ([log in to unmask]), by March 30th, 2003. Please contact the Conference Secretariat if receipt of your email submission is not acknowledged within 7 days. Please include the following information with your paper: - title of paper, author name(s), author(s) affiliation(s) - email/address/fax of author(s) contact(s) - presentation preference: oral or poster/demonstration. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send their final papers only in LaTeX and PS and/or PDF form (in LNCS format) to the Conference Secretariat by e-mail before May 31st, 2003. Format instructions will be available on the TSD 2003 Web site. Conference secretariat: ----------------------- 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: +420 377 632 401 Fax: +420 377 632 402 E-mail: [log in to unmask] To obtain more information please visit the TSD 2003 Web site: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003 ----------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- TSD 2003, September 8-11, 2003, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic Preliminary registration Please return this form to the Conference Secretariat Name: Affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail: I would like to participate in TSD 2003 as a [ ] Full participant [ ] Student [ ] I submit a full paper entitled: Preferred mode of presentation: [ ] oral [ ] demo / poster ___________________________________________ TSD 2003 An International Conference on Text, Speech & Dialogue Conference Organizing Committee email [log in to unmask] phone (+420) 377 632 401, 377 632 467 fax (+420) 377 632 402 http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003 ___________________________________________