Sojka P., Horák A., Kopeček I., Pala K. (eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue

Springer, 2014. — 623 pp.17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2014 Proceedings.
The annual Text, Speech and Dialog Conference (TSD), which originated in 1998, is in the middle of its second decade. So far more than 1,000 authors from 45 countries have contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognized platform for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the field of natural language processing. It has become an interdisciplinary forum, interweaving the themes of speech technology and language processing. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. Indeed, one of its goals has always been to bring together NLP researchers with different interests from different parts of the world and to promote their mutual cooperation.
One of the ambitions of the conference is, as its title says, not only to deal with dialog systems as such, but also to contribute to improving dialog between researchers in the two areas of NLP, i.e., between text and speech people. In our view, the TSD Conference was successful in this respect in 2014 again.Invited Papers
An Information Extraction Customizer
Entailment Graphs for Text Analytics in the Excitement Project
Multi-lingual Text Leveling
Text
SuMACC Project’s Corpus: A Topic-Based Query Extension Approach to Retrieve Multimedia Documents
Empiric Introduction to Light Stochastic Binarization
Comparative Study Concerning the Role of Surface Morphological Features in the Induction of Part-of-Speech Categories
Automatic Adaptation of Author’s Stylometric Features to Document Types
Detecting Commas in Slovak Legal Texts
Detection and Classification of Events in Hungarian Natural Language Texts
Generating Underspecified Descriptions of Landmark Objects
A Topic Model Scoring Approach for Personalized QA Systems
Feature Exploration for Authorship Attribution of Lithuanian Parliamentary Speeches
Processing of Quantitative Expressions with Measurement Units in the Nominative, Genitive, and Accusative Cases for Belarusian and Russian
Document Classification with Deep Rectifier Neural Networks and Probabilistic Sampling
Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Style and Consistency: Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Camus’ Novel The Stranger
Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm
Score Normalization Methods Applied to Topic Identification
Disambiguation of Japanese Onomatopoeias Using Nouns and Verbs
Continuous Distributed Representations of Words as Input of LSTM Network Language Model
NERC-fr: Supervised Named Entity Recognition for French
Semantic Classes and Relevant Domains on WSD
An MLU Estimation Method for Hungarian Transcripts
Using Verb-Noun Patterns to Detect Process Inputs
Divergences in the Usage of Discourse Markers in English and Mandarin Chinese
Sentence Similarity by Combining Explicit Semantic Analysis and Overlapping N-Grams
Incorporating Language Patterns and Domain Knowledge into Feature-Opinion Extraction
BFQA: A Bengali Factoid Question Answering System
Dictionary-Based Problem Phrase Extraction from User Reviews
RelANE: Discovering Relations between Arabic Named Entities
Building an Arabic Linguistic Resource from a Treebank: The Case of Property Grammar
Aranea: Yet Another Family of (Comparable) Web Corpora
Towards a Unified Exploitation of Electronic Dialectal Corpora: Problems and Perspectives
Named Entity Recognition for Highly Inflectional Languages: Effects of Various Lemmatization and Stemming Approaches
An Experiment with Theme–Rheme Identification
Self Training Wrapper Induction with Linked Data
Paraphrase and Textual Entailment Generation
Clustering in a News Corpus
Partial Grammar Checking for Czech Using the SET Parser
Russian Learner Translator Corpus: Design, Research Potential and Applications
Development of a Semantic and Syntactic Model of Natural Language by Means of Non-negative Matrix and Tensor Factorization
Partial Measure of Semantic Relatedness Based on the Local Feature Selection
A Method for Parallel Non-negative Sparse Large Matrix Factorization
Using Graph Transformation Algorithms to Generate Natural Language Equivalents of Icons Expressing Medical Concepts
Speech
GMM Classification of Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Identification of Original Speaker’s Voice
Phonation and Articulation Analysis of Spanish Vowels for Automatic Detection of Parkinson’s Disease
Speaker Identification by Combining Various Vocal Tract and Vocal Source Features
Inter-Annotator Agreement on Spontaneous Czech Language: Limits of Automatic Speech Recognition Accuracy
Minimum Text Corpus Selection for Limited Domain Speech Synthesis
Tuning Limited Domain Speech Synthesis Using General Text-to-Speech System
Study on Phrases Used for Semi-automatic Text-Based Speakers’ Names Extraction in the Czech Radio Broadcasts News
Development of a Large Spontaneous Speech Database of Agglutinative Hungarian Language
Unit Selection Cost Function Exploration Using an A* Based Text-to-Speech System
LIUM and CRIM ASR System Combination for the REPERE Evaluation Campaign
Anti-Models: An Alternative Way to Discriminative Training
Modelling F0 Dynamics in Unit Selection Based Speech Synthesis
Audio-Video Speaker Diarization for Unsupervised Speaker and Face Model Creation
Improving a Long Audio Aligner through Phone-Relatedness Matrices for English, Spanish and Basque
Initial Experiments on Automatic Correction of Prosodic Annotation of Large Speech Corpora
Automatic Speech Recognition Texts Clustering
Impact of Irregular Pronunciation on Phonetic Segmentation of Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Czech
Parametric Speech Coding Framework for Voice Conversion Based on Mixed Excitation Model
Captioning of Live TV Commentaries from the Olympic Games in Sochi: Some Interesting Insights
Language Resources and Evaluation for the Support of the Greek Language in the MARY Text-to-Speech
Intelligibility Assessment of the De-Identified Speech Obtained Using Phoneme Recognition and Speech Synthesis Systems
Dialogue
Referring Expression Generation: Taking Speakers’ Preferences into Account
Visualization of Intelligibility Measured by Language-Independent Features
Using Suprasegmental Information in Recognized Speech Punctuation Completion
Two-Layer Semantic Entity Detection and Utterance Validation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ontology Based Strategies for Supporting Communication within Social Networks
A Factored Discriminative Spoken Language Understanding for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Alex: A Statistical Dialogue Systems Framework
Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley
Integration of an On-line Kaldi Speech Recogniser to the Alex Dialogue Systems Framework