8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue - TSD 2005
 

TOPICS

TSD 2005 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular:

%G•%@ corpora, texts and transcription,
%G•%@ speech analysis, recognition and synthesis,
%G•%@ their intertwining within NL dialogue systems.

Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to):

%G•%@ text corpora and tagging
%G•%@ transcription problems in spoken corpora
%G•%@ sense disambiguation
%G•%@ links between text and speech oriented systems
%G•%@ parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts
%G•%@ multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems
%G•%@ information retrieval and information extraction
%G•%@ text/topic summarization
%G•%@ machine translation
%G•%@ semantic networks and ontologies
%G•%@ speech modelling
%G•%@ speech segmentation
%G•%@ speech recognition
%G•%@ text-to-speech synthesis
%G•%@ dialogue systems
%G•%@ development of dialogue strategies
%G•%@ prosody in dialogues
%G•%@ user modelling
%G•%@ knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
%G•%@ assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
%G•%@ applied systems and software
%G•%@ facial animation
%G•%@ visual speech synthesis

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference

Deadline for submission of full papers: March 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 10, 2005
Camera-ready papers submission: May 31, 2005
TSD 2005: September 12-16, 2005

Tutorials

Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance tutorial proposals: April 30, 2005
Tutorial date: September 12, 2005

Workshop

Submission deadline for workshop proposals: March 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance workshop proposals: April 30, 2005
Workshop date: September 12, 2005

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event will be English, but papers on issues relating to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

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 www pages. One day of the conference will be dedicated for tutorials and workshops.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) or short papers (max. 6 pages in the same format) sent according to instructions at the conference web page will be required to reach a decision about acceptance or rejection. The reviewing of the papers will be blind and managed by an International Program Committee members.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be traditionally published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series and will be distributed to the participants at the conference.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The peferred way of contacting the conference organising committee is in writing to Mr. Kamil Ekstein, TSD 2005 Public Relations Manager:

E-mail: tsd2005@kiv.zcu.cz
ICQ: 331 357 910 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

Ms. Helena Benesova
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
 
Web: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2005