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We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ____________________________________________________________________________ A Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD'99) September 13--17, 1999 Plzen, Czech Republic ____________________________________________________________________________ F I R S T A N N O U N C E M E N T A N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S ____________________________________________________________________________ Detailed information is available from http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd99 TSD'99 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. Workshop theme: --------------- TSD'99 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular: - corpora, texts and transcription; - speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; - their intertwinnig within NL dialog systems. Topics of the TSD'99 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. 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 workshop: ----------------------- TSD'99 will be an international workshop with a limited number of active participants. Priority will be given to persons presenting a paper. The workshop programme will include invited papers by keynote speakers, oral presentations and a poster / demonstration session. Papers will be presented in plenary or parallel sessions. Proceedings: ------------ The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. Workshop site: -------------- The workshop will take place in the comfortable hotel Krakonos (located 760 m above sea-level) in the beautiful West Bohemian spa town of Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) nestled in a valley enclosed by wooded hills. Social events: -------------- The workshop will also include some social events and a half-day trip to the very popular spa town of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad). How to reach Marianske Lazne: ----------------------------- Marienbad can easily be reached by direct IC and EC trains from Prague and also from Nuremberg. Further travel details will be given in our next announcements. Registration fee: ----------------- $100 - organizing costs, workshop proceedings $20 - social events $60 - meals Total: $180 Student reductions will be available. Accommodation: -------------- The hotel rooms of various equipment and cost levels ($15 - $50 per night, including breakfast) will be available in two hotel buildings. The accommodation costs will be paid on site. Important dates: ---------------- March 10, 1999 - Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of title and abstract April 30, 1999 - Notification of acceptance or rejection May 30, 1999 - Camera ready paper submission September 13 - 17, 1999 - TSD'99 International program committee: -------------------------------- Jelinek Frederick USA (general chair) Noeth Elmar Germany (executive chair) Baudoin Genevieve France Cermak Frantisek Czech Rep. Ferencz Attila Romania Hajicova Eva Czech Rep. Hanks Patrick GB Hermansky Hynek USA Kilgarriff Adam GB Kopecek Ivan Czech Rep. Krauwer Steven NL Kucera Pavel Czech Rep. Matousek Vaclav Czech Rep. Moon Rosamund GB Norling-Christensen Ole Danmark Pala Karel Czech Rep. Pavesic Nikola Slovenia Petkevic Vladimir Czech Rep. Psutka Josef Czech Rep. Schukat-Tallamazini E. G. Germany Skrelin Pavel Russia Vintsiuk Taras Ukraine Wilks Yorick GB Payment: -------- The amount of registration fee should be paid by the bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen account number: 4 8 1 1 5 3 0 2 5 7 / 0 1 0 0 purchase order: 61013 account holder: University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 22, CZ-306 14 Plzen stating: TSD'99 and your name Abstract submission: -------------------- Abstracts of no more than 2 pages in ASCII format should be submitted to the TSD'99 secretariat preferable by email by 10 March 1999. Please contact the Workshop secretariat if the acceptance of your email submission will not be acknowledged within 7 days. It is expected that the abstracts of accepted papers will be posted on the TSD'99 web site in advance of the workshop. Please include the following information with your abstract: - Title of paper - Author name(s) - Author(s) affiliation - Email/address/fax of contact author - Presentation preference: - oral (about 15 minutes presentation) - poster/demonstration Workshop secretariat: --------------------- All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Ms. Helena Benesova University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science Univerzitni 22 CZ - 306 14 PLZEN Czech Republic Tel: (+420 19) 7491 212, 27 62 50 Fax: (+420 19) 7491 213 E-mail: [log in to unmask] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ cut here _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T S D ' 9 9 September 13--17, 1999, Plzen, Czech Republic P R E L I M I N A R Y R E G I S T R A T I O N Please return this form to the Secretariat Name ....................................................................... Affiliation ................................................................ Mailing address: ........................................................... ............................................................................. ............................................................................ Phone: ............................. Fax: .................................. E-mail: .................................................................... I would like to participate in TSD'99 as a [ ] Full participant [ ] Student [ ] I am submitting an abstract entitled: ............................................................................. ............................................................................. [ ] by e-mail sent on .... / .... / .... [ ] by mail (3 copies) Preferred presentation: [ ] oral [ ] demo / poster