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let.uu.nl>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA , http://www.ldc.upenn.edu , http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html ), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at http://www.language-archives.org ), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels ), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field. Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive: * Repositories versus catalogues * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content * Repository management * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation * Metadata descriptions * Quality assessment * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style In case of problems with the submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs. * Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck). All submissions will be acknowledged. * Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS * Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper. * Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access provided by default CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerckMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
kiv.zcu.cz>_____________________________________________________________________ TTTTTTTT SSSS DDDDD 2222 0000 0000 111 TT SSS SSS DD DDD 222 222 000 000 000 000 1111 TT SSS DD DDD 222 000 000 000 000 11111 TT SSSS DD DD 222 000 000 000 000 111 TT SSS DD DDD 222 000 000 000 000 111 TT SSS SSS DD DDD 2222 000 000 000 000 111 TT SSSS DDDDD 22222222 0000 0000 111 _____________________________________________________________________ An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001) September 10 - 13, 2001 Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic _____________________________________________________________________ S E C O N D A N N O U N C E M E N T A N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S _____________________________________________________________________ TSD 2001 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen), and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia. Conference topics: - ---------------- TSD 2001 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular: - corpora, texts and transcription; - speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; - their interrelationship within NL dialogue systems. Topics of the TSD 2001 Conference will include: - 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; - multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems; - information retrieval and text/topic summarization; - speech modeling; - speech segmentation; - speech recognition; - text-to-speech synthesis; - speech and motions; - dialogue systems; - development of dialogue strategies; - assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; - applied systems and software. 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: - --------------------- TSD 2001 will be an international conference with a limited number of active participants. The conference program will include presentation of three invited papers by keynote speakers, a limited number of general oral presentations, and a poster / demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. A special feature of the conference will be thematically oriented poster sections supported by short oral presentations. Proceedings: - ---------- The papers will be printed and distributed to participants at the conference. The proceedings will also be published by Springer Verlag in the series Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Venue: - ---- The conference will take place at the Hotel Horizont in the Sumava Mountains. The hotel is situated 1100 m above sea level in the Bohemian Forest Nature Preserve, 3 km from the centre of Zelezna Ruda town. Social events: - ------------ The conference will also include social events and trips to some of the most beautiful places in Sumava - the Sumava National Park, Black Lake, Devil's Lake, Laka Lake, the city of Klatovy, Klenova Castle, and Grosser Arber in Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border. How to reach Zelezna Ruda: - --------------------------- Zelezna Ruda has very good train connections with Prague, Pilsen and Munich. Distances from the nearest airports (Prague-Ruzyne, Munich) to Zelezna Ruda are about 200 km. More detailed travel information will be posted on the TSD 2001 Web site in due course. Registration Cost: - ---------------- Registration fee is $220 (including meals, accommodation, organizing costs, conference proceedings, social events). Student reductions will be available. Accommodation: - ------------ The Hotel Horizont has 90 double rooms. Each room has its own shower, toilet, telephone, and TV set. The hotel also offers the usual hotel services. Dates to Note: - -------------- March 15, 2001 Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of papers April 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance or rejection May 30, 2001 Camera-ready paper submission Sept. 10-13, 2001 TSD 2001 International program committee: - ------------------------------ Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair Genevieve Baudoin, France - speech Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep. - text Attila Ferencz, Romania,S.Korea - speech Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. - text, speech Patrick Hanks, USA - text Eduard Hovy, USA - text, speech Adam Kilgariff, GB - text Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. - speech, text Steven Krauwer, Netherland - text Karel Kucera, Czech Rep. - text Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. - speech Rosamund Moon, GB - text Elmar Noeth, Germany - speech Karel Pala, Czech Rep. - text Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia - speech Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. - text Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. - speech E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany - speech Pavel Skrelin, Russia - speech Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine - speech Yorick Wilks, GB - text Organizing committee: - ------------------- Vaclav Matousek (chair) Helena Benesova Kamil Ekstein Jana Hesova Svatava Kindlova Jana Kleckova Ivan Kopecek Jana Krutisova Josef Masek Pavel Mautner Roman Moucek Jana Ocelikova Karel Pala Pavel Slavik Petr Sojka Karel Tauser Registration: - ----------- The registration fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen account number : 4811530257/0100 purchase order : 5204/0003/00 special ID code: your birth date in the form YYMMDD (year - month - day), e.g. 550425 account holder: University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen stating: TSD 2001 and your name Submission of papers: - ------------------- Full papers (max. 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) will be required to enable the program committee to reach a decision about acceptance or rejection. Preliminary versions of full papers submitted for acceptance could be prepared in ASCII format. Papers should be submitted to the TSD 2001 Secretariat, preferably by email (tsd2001Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue