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informatics.muni.cz>********************************************************* TSD 2002 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002 The conference is organised 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 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 series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2002 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 text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Attila Ferencz, Romania Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Ramesh Krishnamurthy, GB Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Rep. Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), Matousek Vaclav, Pala Karel (co-chair), Sedlacek Radek, Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan, Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka Jan FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. The program will also involve short communications and reports about ongoing projects. The latter types of contributions will not appear in the proceedings. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. TSD 2002 is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The organizing committee will subsidize young researchers and participants from East Europe. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages. Those accepted will be presented as oral lectures. Authors are invited to submit a short paper not exceeding 4 pages. Those accepted are for poster presentation. The submissions should be sent electronically to tsd2002Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
mpi.nl>1. Announcement and Call for Papers ----------------------------------- International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics ===================================================================== Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 15 February 2002 Notification of Acceptance: 15 March 2002 Submission of Final Workshop Papers: 12 April 2002 Workshop: 26-27 May 2002 Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain There is general recognition that many of the world's languages are rapidly losing speakers. This constitutes loss of a rich cultural heritage, a loss which future generations will deeply regret. Considerable efforts have been made to halt this decline and revitalize these languages; but the decline of these languages is now so far advanced that a majority of presently existing languages will become extinct within this century. If this heritage is to be preserved in any sense, then there must be a serious effort towards documenting and archiving linguistic data on these languages, so that reconstruction of the essentials of such languages is possible in posterity, along with the living cultural environment in which they presently function. The urgency of this task has changed the direction of field linguistics, and imposed on it completely new requirements. The highest priority can no longer be placed upon the simple publication of field-work, even when based on careful, in-depth analysis of linguistic phenomena. To preserve as much as possible of the cultural heritage of these languages, we need instead multimedia recordings, which are accompanied by carefully designed linguistic annotations. And we must utilize for this purpose technologies which guarantee long-term access to all the many facets of the material. In addition, the advent of the World-Wide-Web requires that the archived resources be available in new ways, and in conformance with the most widely adopted emergent standards. If this effort is to be successful, it must also include good relations with the members of the indigenous communities which provide the data, and a close cooperation between linguists and the engineers who provide the technology. A number of important new initiatives, for example AILLA, DOBES, E-MELD, LACITO, and ASEDA, have begun work along these lines. There also exist other institutions, such as the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, which began still earlier the task of storing valuable recordings, and their accompanying added linguistic value. The workshop will be held as a pre-conference workshop of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), which has expanded its scope to include field linguistics. We expect to have special sessions at the conference dedicated to the special needs and problems of field linguistics. LREC is unique amongst conferences world-wide, in that it brings together experts of diverse expertise, who both create and maintain language resources. The LREC announcement text (www.lrec-conf.org) indicates that the conference has an extended scope and a broad view of what constitutes language resources. In addition, the LREC conference includes exhibitions and training courses, which we expect participants of the proposed workshop would find very useful indeed. As part of the LREC conference, the primary goal of the workshop is dedicated to structural and technological issues involved in language documentation including its cultural background, and in ways of accessing archived data. Deeper linguistic aspects of the documentation endeavor and its attendant legal and ethical aspects can only be touched briefly. We mention here a few keywords which indicate the scope of the workshop: Media Formats Digitization Methods Project Workflow Schemes Metadata for Resource Retrieval Long-Term Archiving Strategies Annotation Structures and Formats Interlinear Text Formats Character Encoding Guidelines Language Encoding Guidelines Linguistic Encoding Guidelines Dictionary Structures and Formats Typology Databases Geographic Information Systems Integration of Field Notes Data Types in language documentation Web-based Archive Access Tools for language documentation User Interfaces for Native Speakers The workshop will be organized so as to provide time for large projects to inform interested researchers about the methods they use and their experiences so far. It will further provide time and space for other projects to describe how they document languages. Panel and discussion sessions will allow interested researchers to raise questions and comment on the methods chosen. The goals of the workshop are: (1) To improve our understanding of the methods to be applied when documenting language data, with a special focus on languages which are in danger of becoming extinct; and (2) To discuss methods which have already been applied by different projects and which hold promise. Workshop Organizers - ----------------- Peter Austin, Melbourne University Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan University Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Important Dates - ------------- Abstract Submissions 15 February 2002 Notification of Acceptance 15 March 2002 Final Versions 12 April 2002 Workshop 26-27 May 2002 Abstract Submission - ----------------- Submitted abstracts should consist of about 400 words. The abstracts should be submitted electronically as PDF, PS, RTF, or plain text files to the following address: lrec-workshopMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue