TSD 2007 - CALL FOR PAPERS An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Primavera Hotel & Congress centre, Plzen, Czech Republic September 3-7, 2007 (right after Eurospeech 2007) http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007 TSD 2007 is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2007 is also supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). 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, 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 The keynote topic of TSD 2007 conference is Language Modelling. 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 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. 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. Plzen is well known for its brewing tradition. The trademark Pilsner-Urquell penetrated all over the world thanks to the traditional recipe, high quality hops and good wells. Beer lovers will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery museum or the Brewery itself. Apart from its famous beer, Plzen has a lot of hidden treasures in its core. Plzen can pride itself on the second largest synagogue in Europe. The old city center is dominated by a 13th-century Gothic church which features the highest tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is possible to go up the stairs and admire the panorama. Not far from the church is a splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of pleasant cafes and pubs. Plzen has also a beautiful historical underground, under the city center there are 25 km of tunnels. Visitors can pass through the most beautiful part of this labyrinth. It is also recommended to visit the Zoo having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping the Komodo dragons . large lizards existing in only a few Zoos in the world. In the neighborhood of the city there are castle RadynÄ^Û and hunting-seat Kozel. St. Peter's Rotunda in Starý Plzenec was built in the 10th century. 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. GETTING THERE The city has an access from the D5 highway connecting Prague (Praha) with Germany. Plzen has a very good bus and train connections with the capital Prague (takes about 1 - 1.5 hour). From the international airport Prague - RuzynÄ^Û you can reach Plzen by frequent public transport in 1.5 - 2 hours. SOCIAL EVENTS The international conference will also include social events and trips i.e. visit of brewery and city sightseeing. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland - executive chair Eneko Agirre, Spain - text Genevieve Baudoin, France - speech Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep. - speech Attila Ferencz, Romania - speech Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico - text Louise Guthrie, GB - text, speech Jan Hajic, Czech Rep. - text, speech Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. - text, speech Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. - text Ales Horak, Czech Rep. - text Eduard Hovy, USA - text, speech Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. - text, speech Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands - text Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia - text Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. - speech Hermann Ney, Germany - speech Elmar Noeth, Germany - speech Karel Oliva, Austria, Czech Rep. - text Karel Pala, Czech Rep. - text Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia - speech Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. - text Fabio Pianesi, Italy - speech Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. - speech James Pustejovsky, USA - text Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, The Netherlands - speech Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany - speech Pavel Skrelin, Russia - speech Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep. - text Marko Tadic, Croatia - text Tamas Varadi, Hungary - text Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland - text, speech Yorick Wilks, GB - text Victor Zacharov, Russia - text, speech IMPORTANT DATES April 8, 2007 Deadline for submission of full papers May 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2007 Camera-ready papers submission Sept. 3-7, 2007 TSD 2007 Conference 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: tsd@kiv.zcu.cz TSD 2007 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007