TSD 2006 - Preliminary Announcement


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TSD 2006 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2006)
Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006
http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized 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.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


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 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
semantic web speech modeling
speech segmentation
speech recognition
search in speech for IR and IE
text-to-speech synthesis
dialogue systems
development of dialogue strategies
prosody in dialogues
emotions and personality modeling
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

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


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
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep
Hermann Ney, Germany
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Rep
Karel Pala, Czech Rep
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Vladimr 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
Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Eduard Hovy, USA
Louise Guthrie, GB
James Pustejovsky, USA


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and a poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno 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 conference will welcome three keynote speakers
- Eduard Hovy, Louise Guthrie and James Pustejovsky, and it will offer
two special panels devoted to Emotions and Search in Speech.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2006 ............ Submission of abstract
March 22 2006 ............ Submission of papers
May 15 2006 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2006 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 23 2006 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 30 2006 ............. Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 11-15 2006 ..... Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

of the conference will be English.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2006
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email: tsd2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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 center. 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 flights from London and Munich
and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
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