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>FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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>          A Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG (TSD'98)
>          Brno, Czech Republic, 23-26 September 1998
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>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.
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>Please visit the workshop's homepage:
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>http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd98/
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>VENUE
>Brno, Czech Republic
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>TOPICS
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>TSD'98 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language
>processing, in particular:
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>- Corpora, texts and transcription
>- Speech analysis, recognition and synthesis
>- Their intertwining within NL dialog systems.
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>Topics of the workshop will include (but are not limited to):
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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
>- Dialog systems
>- Development of dialog strategies
>- Assistive technologies based on speech and dialog
>- Applied systems and software
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>PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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>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)
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>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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>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
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>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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>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:
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>glum@fi.muni.cz
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>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.
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>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.
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>IMPORTANT DATES
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>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
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>FEES AND COSTS
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>Registration fee:
>80.- USD (includes proceedings, refreshments, social events and trip)
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>Accommodation and food:
>Double room (shared with other participant): 130.- USD
>Single room: 190.- USD
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>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.
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>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
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>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.
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>ADDRESS
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>All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to:
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>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
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>OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAMME
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>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).
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>LOCATION
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>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.
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>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:
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>   --  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).
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>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.
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>HOW TO REACH BRNO
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>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.
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>Ivan Kopecek
>kopecek@fi.muni.cz
>http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/
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Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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