Matoušek V., Mautner P. (eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue

Springer, 2007. — 679 p.10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007 Proceedings.
The International Conference TSD 2007 presented state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the field of natural language processing. It declared its intent to be an interdisciplinary forum, intertwining research in speech and language processing with its applications in everyday practice. We feel that the mixture of different approaches and applications offered a great opportunity to get acquainted with the current activities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from developing countries too. The financial support of the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) enabled the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world.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