Text, Speech and Dialogue

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2007. The 80 revised full papers presented in this volume cover a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields.

Inhalt

Invited Talks.- Language Modeling with Linguistic Cluster Constraints.- Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians.- Some Special Problems of Speech Communication.- Recent Advances in Spoken Language Understanding.- Text.- Transformation-Based Tectogrammatical Dependency Analysis of English.- Multilingual Name Disambiguation with Semantic Information.- Inducing Classes of Terms from Text.- Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing for Modern Hebrew.- Disambiguation of the Neuter Pronoun and Its Effect on Pronominal Coreference Resolution.- Constructing a Large Scale Text Corpus Based on the Grid and Trustworthiness.- Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget's Thesaurus.- Dependency and Phrasal Parsers of the Czech Language: A Comparison.- Automatic Word Clustering in Russian Texts.- Feature Engineering in Maximum Spanning Tree Dependency Parser.- Automatic Selection of Heterogeneous Syntactic Features in Semantic Similarity of Polish Nouns.- Bilingual News Clustering Using Named Entities and Fuzzy Similarity.- Extractive Summarization of Broadcast News: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese.- On the Evaluation of Korean WordNet.- An Adaptive Keyboard with Personalized Language-Based Features.- An All-Path Parsing Algorithm for Constraint-Based Dependency Grammars of CF-Power.- Word Distribution Based Methods for Minimizing Segment Overlaps.- On the Relative Hardness of Clustering Corpora.- Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Content-Based Multimedia Applications.- Automatic Diacritic Restoration for Resource-Scarce Languages.- Lexical and Perceptual Grounding of a Sound Ontology.- Named Entities in Czech: Annotating Data and Developing NE Tagger.- Identifying Expressions of Emotion in Text.- ECAF: Authoring Language for Embodied Conversational Agents.- Speech.- Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models in Speech Driven Information Retrieval.- Whitening-Based Feature Space Transformations in a Speech Impediment Therapy System.- Spanish-Basque Parallel Corpus Structure: Linguistic Annotations and Translation Units.- An Automatic Version of the Post-Laryngectomy Telephone Test.- Speaker Normalization Via Springy Discriminant Analysis and Pitch Estimation.- A Study on Speech with Manifest Emotions.- Speech Recognition Supported by Prosodic Information for Fixed Stress Languages.- TRAP-Based Techniques for Recognition of Noisy Speech.- Intelligibility Is More Than a Single Word: Quantification of Speech Intelligibility by ASR and Prosody.- Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences - What Information the Speech Analysis Brings to a Grammar Debate.- Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Speech - from Research to Routine Clinical Use.- The LIA Speech Recognition System: From 10xRT to 1xRT.- Logic-Based Rhetorical Structuring for Natural Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue.- Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Temporal Patterns.- Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis.- Sk-ToBI Scheme for Phonological Prosody Annotation in Slovak.- Towards Automatic Transcription of Large Spoken Archives in Agglutinating Languages - Hungarian ASR for the MALACH Project.- Non-uniform Speech/Audio Coding Exploiting Predictability of Temporal Evolution of Spectral Envelopes.- Filled Pauses in Speech Synthesis: Towards Conversational Speech.- Exploratory Analysis of Word Use and Sentence Length in the Spoken Dutch Corpus.- Design of Tandem Architecture Using Segmental Trend Features.- An Automatic Retraining Method for Speaker Independent Hidden Markov Models.- User Modeling to Support the Development of an Auditory Help System.- Fast Discriminant Training of Semi-continuous HMM.- Speech/Music Discrimination Using Mel-Cepstrum Modulation Energy.- Parameterization of the Input in Training the HVS Semantic Parser.- A Comparison Using Different Speech Parameters in the Automatic Emotion Recognition Using Feature Subset Selection Based on Evolutionary Algorithms.- Benefit of Maximum Likelihood Linear Transform (MLLT) Used at Different Levels of Covariance Matrices Clustering in ASR Systems.- Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech.- Inter-speaker Synchronization in Audiovisual Database for Lip-Readable Speech to Animation Conversion.- Constructing Empirical Models for Automatic Dialog Parameterization.- The Effect of Lexicon Composition in Pronunciation by Analogy.- Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System.- Voice Conversion Based on Probabilistic Parameter Transformation and Extended Inter-speaker Residual Prediction.- Automatic Czech - Sign Speech Translation.- Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Mutual Information Training in Gender and Age Recognition System.- Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys?.- Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis.- Topic-Focus Articulation Algorithm on the Syntax-Prosody Interface of Romanian.- Translation and Conversion for Czech Sign Speech Synthesis.- Dialog.- A Wizard-of-Oz System Evaluation Study.- New Measures for Open-Domain Question Answering Evaluation Within a Time Constraint.- A Methodology for Domain Dialogue Engineering with the Midiki Dialogue Manager.- The Intonational Realization of Requests in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues.- Analysis of Changes in Dialogue Rhythm Due to Dialogue Acts in Task-Oriented Dialogues.- Recognition and Understanding Simulation for a Spoken Dialog Corpus Acquisition.- First Approach in the Development of Multimedia Information Retrieval Resources for the Basque Context.- The Weakest Link.- A Spoken Dialog System for Chat-Like Conversations Considering Response Timing.- Digitisation and Automatic Alignment of the DIALOG Corpus: A Prosodically Annotated Corpus of Czech Television Debates.- Setting Layout in Dialogue Generating Web Pages.- Graph-Based Answer Fusion in Multilingual Question Answering.- Using Query-Relevant Documents Pairs for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.- Detection of Dialogue Acts Using Perplexity-Based Word Clustering.- Dialogue Management for Intelligent TV Based on Statistical Learning Method.- Multiple-Taxonomy Question Classification for Category Search on Faceted Information.- Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Content-Based Multimedia Applications.