From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31CB47F2AB for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:57 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz) identity=pra; client-ip=147.251.4.36; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz"; x-sender="xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=147.251.4.36; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz"; x-sender="xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@tirith.ics.muni.cz) identity=helo; client-ip=147.251.4.36; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz"; x-sender="postmaster@tirith.ics.muni.cz"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqwBAJyB0FCT+wQkkWdsb2JhbAA7CYwPriKDdRYOAQEBAQkLCwcUBSKCIFoTBQQLC2MLVQkMAQSHeQyXCY8igTI9hx+JJgSMVwMGhCgDkleDM4s6iAKBYwkX X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,309,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="186692283" Received: from tirith.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.36]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 18 Dec 2012 15:47:55 +0100 Received: from anxur.fi.muni.cz (anxur.fi.muni.cz [147.251.48.3]) by tirith.ics.muni.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id qBIElbWU024488 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:55 +0100 Received: from aurora.fi.muni.cz (aurora.fi.muni.cz [147.251.45.16]) by anxur.fi.muni.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0712B6138E for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from xrambous by aurora.fi.muni.cz with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TkySY-0006b6-JX for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:54 +0100 From: TSD 2013 Reply-To: xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz To: tsd2013@tsdconference.org Errors-To: xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz Message-Id: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:54 +0100 X-Muni-Spam-TestIP: 147.251.48.3 X-Muni-Envelope-From: xrambous@aurora.fi.muni.cz X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (tirith.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.35]); Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:55 +0100 (CET) X-Validation-by: xrambous@fi.muni.cz Subject: [Caml-list] TSD 2013 - Preliminary announcement ************************************************************************** TSD 2013 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ************************************************************************** Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2013) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD NEWS The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in parallel with SPECOM. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in parallel with the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, 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 Diana McCarthy, UK Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Jan Pomikalek, Czech Republic Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Milan Rusko, Slovakia Stefan Steidl, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zakharov, 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.One day of the conference will be dedicated to tutorials and workshops. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Pilsen will allow additional informal interactions. Details about the social event will be available on the web page. 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 on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site. Papers submitted to TSD 2013 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 the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' name 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 determined to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX (plain) 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 MS Word-compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for MS Word and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to the LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically. The paper format for the review has to be either the PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, a developed software or interesting materials relevant to the topics of the conference. Speakers who have prepared a demonstration should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2013 ............ Submission of full papers May 12, 2013 .............. Notification of acceptance June 9, 2013 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration September 1-5, 2013 ....... Conference date The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available on CD to participants at the time of the conference. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the conference trip are not included. Full participant: early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 8.200 (approx. 320 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 9.400 (approx. 370 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 390 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 7.000 (approx. 280 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 8.400 (approx. 330 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 8.900 (approx. 350 EUR) The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost of CZK 1.500. 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 9, 2013 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. Any additional paper is treated as extra pages. An extra page charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification. As in previous years, we will do our best to ensure grants for the prospective TSD participants from economically less powerful countries, especially the countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellites. By now we are negotiating with our partner supporting organisations about the form and amount of the grants. LOCATION The city of Plzen (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In addition, it has been selected as the European capital of culture for 2015 by the Council of the European Union. Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery itself. Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its core. The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The dominant of the old part of the city center is definitely the 13th-century Gothic cathedral featuring the highest tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not far from the cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the main square. There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the city center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be found. They are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful part of this labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the City Zoological Garden, having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist only in a few zoos in the world. The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen 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, politics, archeology, anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and design. GETTING THERE The city has access from the D5 motorway connecting Prague (Praha) with Germany. Pilsen has very good bus and train connections with the capital of Prague (it takes about 1 - 1.5 hour to get from Prague to Pilsen). >>From Vaclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) you can reach Pilsen by frequent public transport in 1.5 - 2 hours. ACCOMMODATION The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices in the angelo Hotel Pilsen, which is situated in the city center in walking distance from the main railway station and opposite to the historical entrance of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. There are a lot of restaurants in hotel neighbourhood offering specialities of national and foreign cuisine. Student halls of residence will be also available at the time of conference. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Ms Anna Habernalova, TSD 2013 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2013@tsdconference.org Phone: +420 722 375 005 Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2013 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2013