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An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2003)
September 8 - 11, 2003
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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R E M I N D E R
L A S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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The registration fee depends on the day of payment:
- early registration (by July 31st, 2003) - 380 Euro
- late registration (by August 31st, 2003) - 420 Euro
- on-site registration - 450 Euro
The fee covers meals, refreshment, accommodation, organizing costs,
conference proceedings and social events.
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:
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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:
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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:
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The registration fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to:
Bank address : 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:
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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 (tsd2003@kiv.zcu.cz),
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:
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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: +420 377 632 401
Fax: +420 377 632 402
E-mail: tsd2003@kiv.zcu.cz
To obtain more information please visit the TSD 2003 Web site:
http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003
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TSD 2003
An International Conference
on Text, Speech & Dialogue
Conference Organizing Committee
email tsd2003@kiv.zcu.cz
phone (+420) 377 632 401, 377 632 467
fax (+420) 377 632 402
http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003
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