Subject: 2-nd SQEL Workshop
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:04:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Vaclav Matousek <matousek@kiv.zcu.cz>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl

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                    2-nd  S Q E L   W O R K S H O P

                                  on

              Multi-Lingual Information Retrieval Dialogs
 

              April 27 - 29, 1997  (right after ICASSP 97)

                    PLZEN (Pilsen), CZECH REPUBLIC




                 S E C O N D   A N N O U N C E M E N T

                                    &

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


The University of West Bohemia (Department of Computer Science),  Technical
University of Kosice (Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence),
University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Electrical Engineering), and the
University of Erlangen - Nuremberg (Department of Pattern Recognition)
organize  a joint  workshop  on  multi-lingual information retrieval dialogs
which will be held in Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic.

The workshop program will contain  4 invited talks in duration of 45 min.
(one to each workshop topic), 20 problem presentations (20 min. each) about
topics of the workshop, sufficient time to discuss the presented problems
and the results achieved within the frames of the Copernicus joint research
project SQEL, and three cultural events - tour to the scenic West Bohemian
woods and visit to the historical city of Klatovy (on Sunday April 27),
a reception and tour of the Pilsen Urquell Brewery (on Monday April 28th
afternoon), and an excursion to the Kozel castle (on Tuesday April 29th
afternoon).

Authors who wish to present a paper at the workshop should send their
full-length draft paper (in English using the LLNCS style in LaTeX)
either in the form of an uuencoded postscript file to the e-mail address
sqel97@gina.zcu.cz  or in the printed form (3 hard-copies) to the Workshop
Secretariat by February 15, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be sent by
March 15, 1997.
The full papers (10 pages for invited talks and 4 pages for problem
presentations) will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.
Necessary informations about the LLNCS style are available
at the http address indicated below.

The papers should include:
* the title of the paper,
* author's name, address, telephone and fax number, and e-mail address,
* abstract,
* up to ten (four) pages of text and figures.

Registration fee:
   $ 300        ($ 150     for participants from Eastern European Countries,
                 Kc 3000,- for participants from the Czech Republic,
                 SK 3500,- for participants from Slovakia )

The registration fee covers:
* bus transfer from Munich to Pilsen (via Klatovy on Sunday April 27),
* 3 overnights in Pilsen,
* 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 3 dinners and the reception and tour
  of the Pilsen Urquell Brewery,
* workshop proceedings,
* transfer to the Prague airport (on Wednesday April 30).

Sponsors of the Workshop:
* Pilsen Urquell Brewery,
* EC -- Copernicus Project,
* Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic

To obtain more information see please
                                      http://yoyo.zcu.cz/events/sqel-97.html



               P R E L I M I N A R Y   P R O G R A M

* Sunday, April 27

          9:00   Departure from Munich, Bus transfer to the Czech Republic
         11:30   Lunch (Hotel Javor, Zelezna Ruda - funds not provided)
 13:00 - 17:00   Excursion to Sumava Mountains -
                 Black and Devil's Lakes (12 km hiking tour) and/or
                 (depending on the weather) visit to the West Bohemian Art
                 Gallery at Klenova and to the historical center of Klatovy
                 town
         19:00   Arrival at Hotel Hajek
         20:00   Dinner (provided)

* Monday, April 28

  8:00 -  9:00   Registration
  9:00 - 12:15   Session on Multi-lingual Speech Recognition
                 (invited talk - G. Lazzari, IRST Povo + 6 special
                 presentations)
 12:15 - 13:30   Lunch (provided)
 13:30 - 16:00   Session on Language Modeling
                 (invited talk - F. Jelinek, Univ. of Baltimore + 4 special
                 presentations)
 16:00 - 22:00   Excursion to the Pilsen Urquell Brewery,
                 Banquet Dinner (provided)

* Tuesday, April 29

  9:00 - 12:15   Session on Information Retrieval Dialogs
                 (invited talk - S. Kunzmann, IBM Heidelberg + 6 special
                 presentations)
 12:15 - 13:30   Lunch (provided)
 13:30 - 15:30   Excursion to the Kozel castle
 15:30 - 18:00   Session on Spontaneous Speech Processing
                 (invited talk - N. Reithinger, DFKI Saarbruecken + 4 special
                 presentations)
         19:00   Forest Party (Dinner provided)

* Wednesday, April 30

          7:00   Breakfast (provided)
          8:00   Bus transfer to the Prague airport,
                 Prague sight-seeings circular tour and excursion to the
                 Prague Castle and Prague Old Town (for participants who
                 expect to depart later)



* Workshop Cochairs:

Heinrich Niemann
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuerenberg
Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (IMMD 5)
Martensstrasse 3
D-91058 ERLANGEN, Germany
Tel: (++49 9131) 85 7774
Fax: (++49 9131) 303 811
E-mail: niemann@informatik.uni-erlangen.de}

Vaclav Matousek
University of West Bohemia
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 22
CZ-30614 PLZEN, Czech Republic
Tel: (++42 19) 2171 187  *)
Fax: (++42 19) 2171 213  *)
E-mail: matousek@kiv.zcu.cz}


* Program Committee:

Stefan Harbeck, Erlangen
Karel Jezek, Pilsen
Jana Kleckova, Pilsen
Dusan Krokavec, Kosice
Vladimir Marik, Prague
Vaclav Matousek, Pilsen
Pavel Mautner, Pilsen
Heinrich Niemann, Erlangen
Elmar Noeth, Erlangen
Nikola Pavesic, Ljubljana
Stanislav Racek, Pilsen

* Local Committee:

Pavel Mautner, chair
Helena Benesova
Martin Cerny
Karel Dudacek
Jana Hesova
Svatava Kindlova
Jana Kleckova
Jana Krutisova
Jana Netrvalova

* Address of the Workshop Secretariat:

Ms. Helena Benesova

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 22
CZ - 30614  PLZEN
Czech Republic

Tel:  (++42 19) 2171 212  *)
      (++42 19) 27 62 50  *)
Fax:  (++42 19) 2171 213  *)
E-mail: benesova@kiv.zcu.cz

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