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2nd CfP: Text, Speech and Dialogue

8-12 September 2008
Brno, Czech Republic

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 		   TSD 2008 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Eleventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2008)
 	      Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008
 		    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


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

     March 15 2008 ............ Submission of abstracts
     March 22 2008 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

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
     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

Papers on processing 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 Republic
     Attila Ferencz, Romania
     Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
     Louise Guthrie, GB
     Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
     Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
     Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic
     Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
     Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
     Ales Horak, Czech Republic
     Eduard Hovy, USA
     Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
     Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
     Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
     Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
     Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
     Hermann Ney, Germany
     Elmar Noeth, Germany
     Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
     Karel Pala, Czech Republic
     Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
     Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
     Fabio Pianesi, Italy
     Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
     James Pustejovsky, USA
     Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
     Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany
     Pavel Skrelin, Russia
     Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
     Marko Tadic, Croatia
     Tamas Varadi, Hungary
     Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
     Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
     Yorick Wilks, GB
     Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

     Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI, USA
     Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada


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 in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2008 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final
versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes.  Authors using a WORD compatible software for the
final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the
submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper
to LaTeX format.  For this service a service-and-license fee of
CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on
the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.)

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of the demonstration should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2008 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2008 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2008 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2008 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 23 2008 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 30 2008 ............. Notification of acceptance for
                            demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2008 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

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

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, local
transport, social events and organizing costs. The fee does not
include accommodation.

Full participant:
     Early payment (by May 31):      CZK  8500
     Late payment (by August 15):    CZK 10000
     On-site payment:                CZK 12000

Student:
     Early payment (by May 24):      CZK  7000
     Late payment (by August 15):    CZK  8500
     On-site payment:                CZK 10000

The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost
of CZK 1500. No refund is possible after this date.

All costs are in Czech Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate.

At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration
fee by June 16, 2008 for their paper to be included in the
conference proceedings.  Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included
in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page
charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays
the additional paper(s) rates unless a co-author has also registered
and paid the full registration fee.

The organizing committee will provide grants for participants from
developing countries. The grants will have the form of a conference
fee discounts (50% or 100%). The conditions for a grant application
require the grant receiver to be an author of a paper accepted for
TSD. The grant limit per one accepted paper is 100% of one conference
fee. To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2008@tsdconference.org
with the 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 will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

     Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2008
     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: tsd2008@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2008 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000. The city 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. Brno had been a Royal City
since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,
Barcelona and Prague and by 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 of 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.