From tsd2008 from tsdconference.org Thu Feb 7 06:37:22 2008 From: tsd2008 from tsdconference.org (TSD 2008) Date: Thu Feb 7 13:07:09 2008 Subject: [Bio-matrix] TSD 2008 First Call for Papers Message-ID: ********************************************************* TSD 2008 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Eleventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2008) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized 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. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic 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 (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the 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 parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing languages other than English are 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, The 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, The Netherlands Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, 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 OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2008 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.) Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2008 ............ Submission of abstract March 22 2008 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2008 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2008 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration July 23 2008 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts July 30 2008 ............. Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2008 ...... Conference date Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the proceedings, refreshments, local transport, social events and organizing costs. The fee does not include accommodation. Full participant: Early payment (by May 31): CZK 8500 Late payment (by August 15): CZK 10000 On-site payment: CZK 12000 Student: Early payment (by May 24): CZK 7000 Late payment (by August 15): CZK 8500 On-site payment: CZK 10000 The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost of CZK 1500. No refund is possible after this date. All costs are in Czech Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate. At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 16, 2008 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper(s) rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for participants from East European countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, ..). To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2008@tsdconference.org with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe the reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a separate e-mail. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2008 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2008@tsdconference.org The official TSD 2008 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Barcelona and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. From siegfried.nijssen from cs.kuleuven.be Fri Feb 15 03:37:29 2008 From: siegfried.nijssen from cs.kuleuven.be (Siegfried Nijssen) Date: Fri Feb 15 11:58:54 2008 Subject: [Bio-matrix] ECML PKDD 2008 Call for Workshops/Tutorials Message-ID: <200802150937.30467.siegfried.nijssen@cs.kuleuven.be> (apologies for multiple copies) Call For Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ECML PKDD 2008 The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases *********************************************************** September 15-19, 2008 Antwerp, Belgium http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/ The ECML PKDD 2008 Organizing Committee invites proposals for full-day or half-day tutorials and workshops or a combination of these. Workshops and tutorials will be part of the main conference, and are free of charge to the attendees of the conference. Every workshop and tutorial will receive one free conference registration to be used by one of the organisers or an invited speaker of a workshop. Informal printed workshop proceedings and tutorial notes will be made available by ECML PKDD organizers. Key Dates * Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 31, 2008 * Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: April 11, 2008 * Workshop websites and call for papers online: April 18, 2008 * Workshop/tutorial proceedings/notes camera-ready: August 21, 2008 Workshops Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss current and emerging topics in machine learning and/or data mining in an interactive atmosphere. Thus, any topic that is of current interest to a sufficient number of participants from the two communities could be the focus of a workshop. Workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are especially encouraged. Each workshop should be well-focused, aim not to be a mini-conference, but attract a sufficiently large audience. At least one of the Workshop Chairs should be a knowledgeable person in the area of machine learning or data mining. Tutorials Tutorials provide independent instruction on topics from the field of machine learning or data mining. Introductions to other research domains that could fertilize the machine learning/data mining field with new challenges or solutions are also welcome provided that there is a clear relation to machine learning/data mining. Each tutorial should be well-focused, attract a sufficiently large audience, cover the overall picture at an introductory level without a bias towards the work of one author, and be free of commercial or sales-oriented material. A tutorial should be presented by highly qualified persons with a demonstrable background and teaching experience in the tutorial area. Submissions Proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, relevance, quality and community interest in the proposed tutorial/workshop. More detailed instructions are available here: http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/workshop-tutorial-instructions Each proposal should be submitted by email to the ECML PKDD 2008 workshop and tutorial chairs, who will review the proposals in close collaboration with the conference chairs and members of the program committee. Contact In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your proposals, The ECML PKDD 2008 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Siegfried Nijssen, siegfried@ecmlpkdd2008.org Arno Siebes, arno@ecmlpkdd2008.org From shandar from nibio.go.jp Mon Feb 18 06:37:49 2008 From: shandar from nibio.go.jp (Shandar Ahmad) Date: Mon Feb 18 11:08:48 2008 Subject: [Bio-matrix] PRIB 2008 Message-ID: <1203334669.3081.11.camel@slitheen> ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS, INVITED SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS ____________________________________________________________________________ Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics October 15-17, 2008 Novotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Web:http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08 _____________________________________________________________________________ Important Deadlines: Paper submission: 15 April 2008 Proposals for Special Sessions: 15 March 2008 Proposals for Tutorials: 15 May 2008 Author notification: 15 May 2008 Camera-ready papers: 15 June 2008 ______________________________________________________________________________ PRIB 2008 is aimed at bringing together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in life sciences. Pattern recognition techniques of interest include: statistical, syntactic, and structural approaches, Bayesian, hidden Markov and graphical models, neural networks, fuzzy and genetic algorithms, data mining, and their hybrids. Papers in areas of (but not limited to) bio-sequence analysis, gene and protein expression analysis, structure prediction, protein folding, docking, metabolic pathway analysis and regulatory networks, system biology, drug design, and bioimaging, are solicited for presentation at the conference. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as an edited volume in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics by Springer. Submission of papers will be electronic and through the conference website. Proposals for special sessions and tutorials at the conference are also invited in all related areas of research. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will also be invited for publication in Special Issues of reputed journals. Location: Melbourne is a sophisticated city in the south-east corner of mainland Australia. It is known for its attractive site seeing places, great events, passion for food and wine and fabulous scenery. Boasting as a style-setter, Melbourne is home to continuous program of festivals, art exhibitions and musical extravaganzas. Warning: you might never want to go home. For latest information on PRIB 2008, visit the conference web site or email the secretariat at prib2008.melb@infotech.monash.edu.au ______________________________________________________________________ General Chair: Madhu Chetty (Monash University, Australia) General Co-Chair: Raj Acharya (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Program Chair: Jagath Rajapakse (NTU, Singapore) Technical Chairs: Elena Marchiori (Vrije University, The Netherlands) Bertil Schmidt (NICTA, Australia) Special Session Chairs: Jennifer Hallinan (New Castle University, UK) Alioune Ngom (University of Windsor, Canada) Local Chair: Shyh Wei Teng (Monash University, Australia) Publicity Chairs: Shandar Ahmad (Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan) Phoebe Chen (Deakin University, Australia) Mariofanna Milanova (University of Arkansas at LR, USA) Md. Tamjidul Hoque (Griffith University, Australia) Publication Chairs: Sy Loi Ho (NTU, Singapore) Girija Chetty (University of Canberra, Australia) Sponsorship Chair: Dieter Bulach (CSIRO, Australia) Finance Manager: Tim Stephens (Monash University, Australia) Secretariat: Tina Bradshaw (Monash University, Australia) Web Master: Margot Schuhmacher (Monash University, Australia) _______________________________________________________________________________ Contact: PRIB 2008 Secretariat Gippsland School of Information Technology Monash University Churchill, Victoria - 3842, Australia Tel: +61 3 9902 6566 Fax: +61 3 9902 7137 Email: prib2008.melb@infotech.monash.edu.au _________________________________________________________________________________ ~