TSD 2009
TSD 2009 | |
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International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
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Dates | Sep 13, 2009 (iCal) - Sep 18, 2009 |
Homepage: | www.tsdconference.org |
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Location: | Plzen, Czech Republic |
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Submissions: | Mar 22, 2009 |
Camera ready due: | May 31, 2009 |
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TSD 2009 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Primavera Hotel & Congress Centre, Plzen, Czech Republic September 13-18, 2009 (right after Interspeech 2009) http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2009 will be supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and Czech society for cybernetics and informatics. 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 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 parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues 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 The keynote topic of TSD 2009 conference is Modern approaches in semantic analysis. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ----------------------------------- The official language of the event will be English, but papers on processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------- Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Rep. Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Patrick Hanks, GB Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. Ales Horak, Czech Rep. Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Rep. Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Fabio Pianesi, Italy Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. James Pustejovsky, USA Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep. Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zacharov, Russia 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. A preliminary conference program will be published at the conference Web pages. One day of the conference will be dedicated for tutorials and workshops. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow for additional informal interactions. LOCATION ----------------- Plzen (Pilsen) is located in Western Bohemia on the confluence of four rivers. With 170 thousand inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, cultural, and administrative center. The University of West Bohemia in Plzen provides a variety of courses for both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politology, archaeology, anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and design. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- March 22, 2009 Submission of full papers May 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2009 Final papers (camera-ready) submission and registration Sept. 13-18, 2009 TSD 2009 Conference The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. GRANTS AND DISCOUNTS ------------------------------------------ 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 tsd2009@tsdconference.org with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe the reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a separate e-mail. ACCOMMODATION ------------------------------- The organizing committee has arranged accommodation at reasonable prices in the Primavera hotel and student dormitories. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS ------------------ All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Mrs. Helena Ptackova 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: tsd2009@tsdconference.org or tsd@kiv.zcu.cz TSD 2009 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/
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Facts about "TSD 2009"
Acronym | TSD 2009 + |
Camera ready due | May 31, 2009 + |
End date | September 18, 2009 + |
Event type | Conference + |
Has coordinates | 49° 44' 52", 13° 22' 39"Latitude: 49.747741666667 Longitude: 13.377525 + |
Has location city | Plzen + |
Has location country | Category:Czech Republic + |
Homepage | http://www.tsdconference.org + |
IsA | Event + |
Start date | September 13, 2009 + |
Submission deadline | March 22, 2009 + |
Title | International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE + |