[Corpora-List] TSD 2002 - Second Call for Demonstrations and Participation

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     TSD 2002 - SECOND CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
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    Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
    (TSD 2002)
    Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002
    http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/

    The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics,
    Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
    University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported
    by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

    SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS

    Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and
    hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
    conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the
    abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission
    must be made using an online form available at the conference www
    pages.

    The organisers will prepare the computers with multimedia support for
    demonstrators. Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet
    connection allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. The faculty
    network provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) connection to the internet
    as
    well.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission of demonstration papers:
    July 31, 2002

    Conference date:
    September 9-12, 2002

    TSD SERIES

    TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
    researchers in both spoken and written language processing
    from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.
    Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
    their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

    TOPICS

    Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include:
    text corpora;
    automatic morphology;
    word sense disambiguation;
    lexical semantics and semantic networks;
    parsing and part-of-speech tagging;
    machine translation;
    multi-lingual issues;
    information retrieval;
    text/topic summarization;
    knowledge representation and reasoning;
    speech modeling;
    speech coding;
    speech segmentation;
    speech prosody;
    automatic speech recognition;
    text-to-speech synthesis;
    speaker identification and verification;
    facial animation and visual speech synthesis;
    dialogue systems;
    development of dialogue strategies;
    prosody and emotions in dialogues;
    user modeling;
    assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
    markup languages related to speech and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...).

    CONFERENCE PROGRAM

    The conference program will include oral presentations and
    poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
    the issues raised. The demonstration papers will not appear in the
    Proceedings of TSD 2002 but will be published electronically at the
    conference website. Preliminary program of the conference is already
    available there.

    The program includes two invited talks.

    Prof. Ronald Allan Cole (Monday, September 9)
    Perceptive Animated Interfaces: The Next Generation of Interactive Learning
    Tools

    Prof. James Pustejovsky (Tuesday, September 10)
    When Corpus Meets Theory: Creating Lexical Semantic Databases

    The Wednesday afternoon of the conference is reserved for a trip
    to the South Moravian region Lednice - Valtice. We will see the
    chateau at Lednice with its large botanical gardens and
    beautiful surroundings. In the evening there will be the
    conference dinner in the famous wine cellar in Valtice chateau,
    where a traditional cembalon band will play.

    TSD 2002 is supported by International Speech Communication
    Association (ISCA).

    CONFERENCE FEES

    The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your
    status. It includes one copy of the Proceedings, refreshments,
    social events and a daytrip. The fee does not include
    accommodation.

    Full participant:
    Payment by August 15th: Euro 300
    On-site payment: Euro 350

    Student:
    Payment by August 15th: Euro 200
    On-site payment: Euro 250

    The payment may be refunded up until August 15th at the cost
    of 50 Euros. No refund is possible after this date.

    ACCOMMODATION

    The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a
    student dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the
    Conference at a reasonable price. The actual list of available
    hotels and prices is accessible at the website.

    ADDRESS

    All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

    Dana Komarkova
    TSD 2002 Faculty of Informatics
    Masaryk University
    Botanická 68a
    CZ-602 00 Brno
    Czech Republic
    telephone: +420 5 41 512 359
    fax: +420 5 41 212 568
    e-mail: tsd2002@fi.muni.cz
    The official TSD 2002 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/

    LOCATION

    The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,
    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

    Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with
    population of almost 400,000, and is the country's judiciary and
    trade-fair centre. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in
    the south-east part of the Czech Republic. It had been the King's
    town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural
    center of the region.

    Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from
    Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

    For the participants with some extra time, some nearby
    places may also be of interest.

    The local ones include:
    Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New
    City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church
    and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Bishops
    Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole,
    famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe
    and other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

    For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
    Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three
    emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle
    by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle,
    Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice
    Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest Jewish cemeteries in
    Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO and many
    others are all within an easy reach.



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