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An International Conference on Text,
Speech and Dialog (TSD 2001)
September 10-13, 2001
Plzen, Czech Republic
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C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
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TSD 2001 will be an international conference on Text, Speech and
Dialogue. The TSD2001 Conference continues the tradition of annual
international workshops devoted to the natural language processing
(corpora, texts and transcription; speech analysis, recognition
and synthesis; their intertwinnig within NL dialogue systems),started
by the SQEL Workshop in 1997.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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;
speech and motions; dialog systems; development of dialog strategies;
assistive technologies based on speech and dialog; applied systems
and software.
TUTORIALS
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- E. NOETH and W. ECKERT (University of Erlangen-Nuermberg, Germany):
Spoken Dialogue Systems
- I. KOPECEK, R.BATUSEK, P.GAURA, P. NYGRYN (Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Rep.)
Dialogue systems for Impaired People
- T. HARISSIS (Systema Informatics, S.A., Athens, Greece)
Force Feedback Haptic Devices
- N. BRAUN (ZGDV e. V., Darmstadt, Germany)
Modeling of Conversational User Interface
INVITED SPEAKERS
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- FREDERICK JELINEK (Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA):
The Spreading USE of Grammer in Language Modeling
- HYNEK HERMANSKY (Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA):
Recognition of Speech from Temporal Patterns of Frequency
Localized Spectral Energy
- EVA HAJICOVA et al (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic):
The Current Status of the Prague Dependency Treebank
- FRANTISEK CERMAK (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.):
Language Corpora: The Czech Case
- ELMAR NOETH et al (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany):
Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue
Systems Revisited
- ENEKO AGIRRE (University of the Basque, Domstia, Spain):
Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation
- TARAS K. VINTSIUK (NAS Institute of Cybernetics & UNESCO/IIP
International Research-Training Centre for Information Technologies
and Systems, Kyjiv, Ukraine)
Generative Phoneme-Threephone Model for ASR
ACCEPTED PAPERS
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A complete list of accepted papers is on-line available at:
http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/program.htm
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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The conference program will include tutorials, invited papers
given by keynote speakers, oral presentations of accepted
submissions of several kinds, short poster presentations and poster
sessions.
The conference will also include social events (welcome reception,
conference banquet, bartender show) and trips to some of the most
popular places in Sumava Mountains- Sumava National Park, Black
and Devil's lake (12km hiking tour), the Laka lake (10 km hiking
tour), bus-trip to the city of Klatovy and Klenova castle, and 20km
hiking tour to Grosser Osser, Grosser Arber and Arbersee im
Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border.
To obtain the more detailed program and to fill registration form
check please the web page of the conference at:
< http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/ >.
Registration deadline: July 31, 2001.
Registration fee
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* full participant - $220
* student - $160
The 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
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Conference Chair: FREDERICK JELINEK
----------------- Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA
Conference Executive: HYNEK HERMANSKY
--------------------- Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA:
International program committee:
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Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair
Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep.
Attila Ferencz, Romania, South Korea
Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep.
Patrick Hanks, GB, USA
Eduard Hovy, USA
Adam Kilgariff, GB
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep.
Steven Krauwer, Netherland
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep.
Rosamund Moon, GB
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Pala, Czech Rep.
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep.
Josef Psutka, Czech Rep.
E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Yorick Wilks, GB
Organizing Committee < tsd2001@kiv.zcu.cz >
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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
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