Corpora: Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG (TSD'98)

Ivan Kopecek (kopecek@informatics.muni.cz)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:23:31 +0100

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

A Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG (TSD'98)
Brno, Czech Republic, 23-26 September 1998

The workshop is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen, under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty
of Informatics of Masaryk University.

Please visit the workshop's homepage:

http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd98/

VENUE
Brno, Czech Republic

TOPICS

TSD'98 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 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
- Multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialog systems
- Information retrieval and text/topic summarization
- Speech modeling
- Speech segmentation
- Speech recognition
- Text-to-speech synthesis
- Dialog systems
- Development of dialog strategies
- Assistive technologies based on speech and dialog
- Applied systems and software

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Baudoin Genevieve (France)
Ferencz Attila (Romania)
Hanks Patrick (Great Britain, chair)
Hermansky Hynek (USA)
Kopecek Ivan (Czech Republic)
Matousek Vaclav (Czech Republic)
Mueller Johannes (Germany)
Noeth Elmar (Germany)
Pala Karel (Czech Republic)
Pavesic Nikola (Slovenia)
Schukat-Talamazzini E. Guenter (Germany)
Skrelin Pavel (Russia)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Bartek Ludek
Batusek Robert
Komarkova Dana (secretary) e-mail: dkomar@fi.muni.cz
Kopecek Ivan (chair) e-mail: kopecek@fi.muni.cz
Matousek Vaclav
Pala Karel
Smrz Pavel
Staudek Jan
Zackova Eva (PRINCIPAL CONTACT) e-mail: glum@fi.muni.cz
Zizka Jan

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Abstracts of no more than 500 words [plain ASCII text only, please]
should be submitted to the following e-mail address on or before
May 15, 1998:

glum@fi.muni.cz

Submissions should include, in addition to the abstract itself, the
name of the author(s), affiliation, address, telephone number, fax
number, and e-mail address. Electronic submissions will be
acknowledged by e-mail, so please contact us if no acknowledgement is
received. Acceptance of submissions will likewise be notified by
e-mail. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of
TSD'98.

Authors of abstracts that are accepted will be requested to send their
papers in PostScript form (in LLNCS format) to the above by e-mail
before August 17th. LaTeX word processor is preferred but not
required. Format instructions (and LLNCS LaTeX format) will be sent to
authors together with the notification of acceptance. Requests for
participation will be processed on a "first come first served" basis.

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday, May 15, 1998 ..... Submissions of Abstracts due
Tuesday, June 30, 1998 ..... Notification of acceptance sent to the authors
Monday, August 17, 1998 ..... Final papers (camera ready) due
Wednesday, September 23, 1998 ...... Workshop date

FEES AND COSTS

Registration fee:
80.- USD (includes proceedings, refreshments, social events and trip)

Accommodation and food:
Double room (shared with other participant): 130.- USD
Single room: 190.- USD

The full cost of the Workshop will therefore be either 210,- USD or
270,- USD, depending on whether accommodation is shared. Further
details will be announced later.

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.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to:

Dana Komarkova
Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a
60200 Brno
Czech republic
tel.: +420 5 41 512 359
fax:
e-mail: dkomar@fi.muni.cz

OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAMME

All sessions of the workshop will be plenary (no parallel sessions).
The format will consist of paper presentations (generally 20 minutes)
followed by discussion (10 minutes).
The workshop will also include social events, an excursion to the
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, and a trip in the
vicinity of Brno (the Moravian Karst, including the beautiful Macocha
Chasm).

LOCATION

Hotel Myslivna, where the workshop will take place, is a comfortable
hotel in beautiful woods on a hill near a natural reservation area
very close to Brno. The surrounding is very quiet and suitable for
walks and hiking (jogging) routes.

Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the
Czech Republic. It is the second-largest town in the Czech Republic
(with a population of about half a million). It had been a royal city
since 1347. There are six universities in Brno. Historical and
artistic places of interest include:

-- Brno castle (now called Spilberk)
-- Veveri castle
-- The Old and New City halls
-- The Augustine monastery, with St Thomas' Church and crypt of
Moravian margraves
-- The Church of St James
-- The "Bishops' Church" of St Peter & St Paul
-- The famous villa Tugendhadt, designed by Mies van der Rohe
-- Many other important examples of Czech architecture between
the wars (1918-38).

In the immediate surroundings of Brno are the Moravian Karst. with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves; the site of the "Battle of the Three
emperors" (Napoleon, Alexander of Russia, and Franz of Austria),
commonly known as the Battle of Austerlitz; the chateau of Slavkov
(Austerlitz); Pernstejn Castle; and many other attractions.

HOW TO REACH BRNO

Brno can be reached easily by direct trains from Prague, Vienna,
Bratislava, and Budapest, or by plane to Vienna and then by coach or
train (130 km). Another possibility is to go by plane to Prague and
then travel about 200 km by coach or train. Further travel details
will be given in future announcements.

Ivan Kopecek
kopecek@fi.muni.cz
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/