Text, Speech and Dialogue

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the Second Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 99 held in Plzen and Mari ansk eLazn e (Czech Republic) on 13{17 September 1999. The general objective of the workshop was to present state{of{the{art technology and recent achievements in the eld of natural language processing. A total of 57 papers and 19 posters contributed by 128 authors (63 from Central Europe, 11 from Eastern Europe, 33 from Western Europe, 2 from Africa, 13 from America, and 6 from Asia) were included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop is an interdisciplinary forum, which brings together research in speech and language processing as well as research in the Eastern and Western hemisphere. We feel that the mixture of di erent approaches and applications gives all of us a great opportunity to bene t and learn from each other. We would like to gratefully thank the invited speakers and the authors of the papers for their valuable contributions, the Medav GmbH (Uttenreuth, GER) and the SpeechWorks (Boston, USA) for their nancial support, and Prof. V- tracky for greeting the workshop on behalf of the University of West Bohemia.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Invited Talks.- Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Data-Driven Analysis of Speech.- Towards a Road Map for Machine Translation Research.- The Prague Dependency Treebank: Crossing the Sentence Boundary.- Text.- Tiered Tagging and Combined Language Models Classifiers.- Syntactic Tagging: Procedure for the Transition from the Analytic to the Tectogrammatical Tree Structures.- Information, Language, Corpus and Linguistics.- Prague Dependency Treebank: Restoration of Deletions.- Some Types of Syntactic Ambiguity; How to Treat Them in an Automatic Procedure.- Semantic Annotation of (Czech) Corpus Texts.- The General Principles of the Diachronic Part of the Czech National Corpus.- Performing Adaptive Morphological Analysis Using Internet Resources.- Automatic Text-to-Speech Alignment: Aspects of Robustification.- Czech Translation of G. Orwell's '1984': Morphology and Syntactic Patterns in the Corpus.- Handling Word Order in a Multilingual System for Generation of Instructions.- Text Structuring in a Multilingual System for Generation of Instructions.- Leveraging Syntactic Information for Text Normalization.- Automatic Structuring of Written Texts.- Implementation of Efficient and Portable Parser for Czech.- Word Sense Disambiguation of Czech Texts.- The Acquisition of Some Lexical Constraints from Corpora.- Run-Time Extensible (Semi-)Top-Down Parser.- Enhancing Readability of Automatic Summaries by Using Schemas.- Use of a Weighted Topic Hierarchy for Document Classification.- Speech.- Remarks on Sentence Prosody and Topic-Focus Articulation.- Speech Recognition Using Elman Neural Networks.- Use of Hidden Markov Models for Evaluation of Russian Digits Pronunciation by the Foreigners.- Allophone-Based Concatenative Speech Synthesis Systemfor Russian.- Intonation Questions in English and Armenian: Results of the Perceptual Study.- Methods of Sentences Selection for Read-Speech Corpus Design.- Speaker Identification Using Discriminative Centroids Weighting A Growing Cell Structure Approach.- Speech Analysis and Recognition Synchronised by One-Quasiperiodical Segmentation.- Spanish Phoneme Classification by Means of a Hierarchy of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps.- Information Theoretic Based Segments for Language Identification.- Fast and Robust Features for Prosodic Classification?.- A Segment Based Approach for Prosodic Boundary Detection?.- Speech Recognition and Syllable Segments.- Text Preprocessing for Czech Speech Synthesis.- MLPs and Mixture Models for the Estimation of the Posterior Probabilities of Class Membership.- A Simple Spanish Part of Speech Tagger for Detection and Correction of Accentuation Error.- Slovene Interactive Text-to-Speech Evaluation Site SITES.- Developing HMM-Based Recognizers with ESMERALDA.- Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Read and Broadcast Czech.- Rules for Automatic Grapheme-to-Allophone Transcription in Slovene.- Speech Segmentation Aspects of Phone Transition Acoustical Modelling.- Context Dependent Phoneme Recognition.- State-Space Model Based Labeling of Speech Signals.- Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding: Comparison of Data-Driven Units with Syllable Segments.- Storing Prosody Attributes of Spontaneous Speech.- Dialogue.- An Overview of the State of the Art of Coding Schemes for Dialogue Act Annotation.- Structural and Semantic Dialogue Filters.- A Retrieval System of Broadcast News Speech Documents through Keyboard and Voice.- Situations in Dialogs.- Components for Building an Automatic Voice-Dialogue Telephone System.- Modeling of the InformationRetrieval Dialogue Systems.- Improvement of the Recognition Rate of Spoken Queries to the Dialogue System.- Analysis of Different Dialog Strategies in the Slovenian Spoken Dialog System.- Posters.- Dispersion of Words in a Language Corpus.- Corpus-Based Rules for Czech Verb Discontinuous Constituents.- Automatic Modelling of Regional Pronunciation Variation for Russian.- Experiments Regarding the Superposition of Emotional Features on Neutral Korean Speech.- Modeling Cue Phrases in Turkish: A Case Study.- Speaker Identification Based on Vector Quantization.- Robustness in Tabular Deduction for Multimodal Logical Grammar Part 1.- Classifying Visemes for Automatic Lipreading.- Semantic Inference in the Human-Machine Communication.- Playing with RST: Two Algorithms for the Automated Manipulation of Discourse Trees.- Another Step in the Modeling of Basque Intonation: Bermeo.- Electronic Dictionaries: For Both Humans and Computers.- Statistical Evaluation of Similarity Measures on Multi-lingual Text Corpora.- Document Title Patterns in Information Retrieval.- Statistical Approach to the Automatic Synthesis of Czech Speech.- Language Model Representations for the GOPOLIS Database.- Recognition of Alkohol Influence on Speech.- Recording of Czech and Slovak Telephone Databases within SpeechDat-E.- Pragmatic Features of the Electronic Discourse in the Internet.