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cs.rutgers.edu>Computer Speech and Language Call for Journal Papers: Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation Aim: There are long traditions of research in both natural language generation and speech synthesis. However, recently, as applications have emerged requiring spoken language output, such as spoken dialog systems, speech-to-speech translation systems, automated sports commentators, and directions systems, there has been an increase in research that relates these two strands of work. This research is motivated by the goal of producing higher quality spoken output by using knowledge that the system has about the purpose, meaning and linguistic form of the communication. Research challenges include: the generation of utterances in interactive dialogue that are sensitive to listeners working memory constraints, the generation of speech acts whose purpose is other than to describe or inform, determining the appropriate prosody for spoken output, and incorporating corpus-based or statistical knowledge into the generation and synthesis processes. In the past there has not been much contact between the generation and synthesis communities. The purpose of this special issue is to collect papers of interest to both communities. We encourage the submission of papers in both generation and synthesis oriented towards use in spoken language systems, and we especially welcome those describing work at the intersection of these two fields. Submissions should meet the following criteria: * Describe completed and original work not published elsewhere. (Extensions of work-shop or conference publications are acceptable.) * Make clear how the research described contributes to generating spoken language. * Include an empirical component, in the form of a corpus-based or machine-learning methodology, and/or in the form of an empirical evaluation. * Be no longer than 70 to 80 manuscript pages (double-spaced) Important deadlines: * Submissions due: July 31st, 2001. * Notification of acceptance: September 28th, 2001. Manuscript submission The Computer Speech and Language home page is at: http://www.academicpress.com/csl where you can find instructions for authors, latex templates, electronic submission, and other information under the information box. Please send email with any questions to walkerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.nmsu.edu>ICTAI 2001 The Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence November 7-9, 2001 Dallas, Texas http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/ICTAI2001 Call for papers The annual ICTAI conference is an international forum for the exchange of ideas relating to artificial intelligence (AI) among academia, industry, and government agencies. It fosters the creation and transfer of such ideas, and promotes their cross-fertilization over all AI application domains and AI paradigms through a unifying theme: AI Tools. ICTAI focuses on both theory and developing, implementing, and evaluating theoretical and applied frameworks that may serve as tools for developing intelligent systems and pursuing AI applications. We invite paper submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: * AI algorithms * AI in Software Engineering * Cognitive Modeling * Collaborative Software Agents * Fuzzy Logic and Reasoning Under Uncertainty * Genetic Algorithms * Intelligent tutoring/Training Systems * Intelligent Internet Agents * Intelligent Interface Agents * Environmental Applications * AI in Data Mining * Intelligent Information Retrieval * AI in database * Knowledge Sharing * Machine Learning * Natural Language Processing * Neural Networks * Planning and Scheduling * Qualitative Reasoning * Vision and Image Processing * AI in Multimedia Systems Important dates: Full papers due June 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance August 10, 2001 Camera ready papers due September 1, 2001 ICTAI 2001 Conference November 7-9, 2001 Program Committee General Chair Arvind Bansal, Kent State University Steering Committee Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California at Berkeley Jefferey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program Chair Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University Program Committee Farokh Bastani, U.T. Dallas, USA Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlignton, USA Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA Gopal Gupta, U.T. Dallas, USA Babak Hamidzadeh, University of British Columbia, Canada Sanda Harabagiu, Southern Methodist University, USA Rammohana Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Seven Maiorano, USA Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Miura, Kyoto University, Japan Haleh Vafaie, Logicon Federal Data, USA Marin Simina, Tulane University, USA Vincent Tam, National University of Singapore Takashi Yukawa, NTT, Japan Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM, USA Publicity Chair Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University Registration Chair Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State UniversityMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue