text_combined: tsd 2008 bsv8293tsdconferenceorg tsd 2008 preliminary announcement eleventh international conference text speech dialogue tsd 2008 brno czech republic 812 september 2008 httpwwwtsdconferenceorg conference organized faculty informatics masaryk university brno faculty applied sciences university west bohemia pilsen conference supported international speech communication association venue brno czech republic tsd series tsd series evolved prime forum interaction researchers spoken written language processing former east block countries western colleagues proceedings tsd form book published springerverlag lecture notes artificial intelligence lnai series topics topics conference include limited text corpora tagging transcription problems spoken corpora sense disambiguation links text speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems spoken texts multilingual issues multilingual dialogue systems information retrieval information extraction texttopic summarization machine translation semantic networks ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search speech ir ie texttospeech synthesis dialogue systems development dialogue strategies prosody dialogues emotions personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation relation dialogue systems assistive technologies based speech dialogue applied systems software facial animation visual speech synthesis papers processing languages english strongly encouraged program committee frederick jelinek usa general chair hynek hermansky switzerland executive chair eneko agirre spain genevieve baudoin france jan cernocky czech republic attila ferencz romania alexander gelbukh mexico louise guthrie gb jan hajic czech republic eva hajicova czech republic patrick hanks czech republic ludwig hitzenberger germany jaroslava hlavacova czech republic ales horak czech republic eduard hovy usa ivan kopecek czech republic steven krauwer netherlands siegfried kunzmann germany natalija loukachevitch russia vaclav matousek czech republic hermann ney germany elmar noeth germany karel oliva czech republic karel pala czech republic nikola pavesic slovenia vladimir petkevic czech republic fabio pianesi italy josef psutka czech republic james pustejovsky usa leon rothkrantz netherlands ernst g schukattalamazzini germany pavel skrelin russia pavel smrz czech republic marko tadic croatia tamas varadi hungary zygmunt vetulani poland taras vintsiuk ukraine yorick wilks gb victor zakharov russia format conference conference program include presentation invited papers oral presentations posterdemonstration sessions papers presented plenary topic oriented sessions social events including trip vicinity brno allow additional informal interactions conference program conference program include oral presentations posterdemonstration sessions sufficient time discussions issues raised important dates march 15 2008 submission abstract march 22 2008 submission full papers may 15 2008 notification acceptance may 31 2008 final papers camera ready registration july 23 2008 submission demonstration abstracts july 30 2008 notification acceptance demonstrations sent authors september 812 2008 conference date contributions conference published proceedings made available participants time conference official language conference english address correspondence regarding conference addressed dana hlavackova tsd 2008 faculty informatics masaryk university botanicka 68a 602 00 brno czech republic phone 420549 49 33 29 fax 420549 49 18 20 email bsv8293tsdconferenceorg location brno second largest city czech republic population almost 400000 countrys judiciary tradefair center brno capital moravia southeast part czech republic royal city since 1347 six universities forms cultural center region brno reached easily direct flights london moscow barcelona prague trains buses prague 200 km vienna 130 km fri 08 aug 2008 101400 0100 uai tsd 2008 preliminary announcement