###################################################################### TSD 2004 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 8-11 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/ ###################################################################### 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). NEWS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening Session by Frederick Jelinek Ken Church Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future? James Pustejovsky & Patrick Hanks Common Sense about Word Meaning: Sense in Context Jan Odijk ScanSoft's Technologies Detailed abstracts of the invited talks can be found at http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/, Invited Speakers. CONFERENCE TRIP Conference program includes a trip to a historical town of Znojmo, where we will visit the underground passageways and the day will be finished with a dinner in a Moravian wine cellar. 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 (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2004 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; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation semantic networks and ontologies; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; visual speech synthesis. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Rep. Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep. Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip to a historical town of Znojmo with a dinner in a Moravian wine cellar will allow for additional informal interactions. 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 2004 but will be published electronically at the conference website. A preliminary detailed conference program is already published at the conference www pages. IMPORTANT DATES Conference dates: September 8-11, 2004 The conference proceedings will be available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. 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 organizing costs. The fee does not include accommodation and meals. Full participant: On-site payment: CZK 12000 Student: On-site payment: CZK 8000 All costs are in Czech Crowns (CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate. The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for participants from East European countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, ...). To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2004@aurora.fi.muni.cz with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe the reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a separate e-mail. ACCOMODATION The organizing committee will arrange accommodation in a 3 star hotel and student dormitories at reasonable prices. The current list of available accomodation and prices are accessible through the WWW Registration on the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Anna Sinopalnikova TSD 2004 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanicka 68a 602 00 Brno Czech Republic phone: +420 5 49 49 66 96 fax: +420 5 49 49 18 20 e-mail: tsd2004@aurora.fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2004 homepage is: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/ LOCATION Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a 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 a Royal City 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. Local ones include: 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, Church of St. James, Cathedral St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with 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 largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list and many others are all within easy reach.