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

Springer, 2005. — 475 p.8th International Conference, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 12-15, 2005 Proceedings.The International Conference TSD 2005, the 8th event in the series on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, which originated in 1998, 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.
This year’s conference was partially oriented towards multi-modal human-computer interaction (HCI), which can be seen as the most attractive topic of HCI at the present time. In this way, we are involved in a rich complex of communicative activity, facial expressions, hand gestures, direction of gaze, to name but the most obvious ones. The interpretation of each user utterance depends on the context, prosody, facial expressions (e.g. brows raised, brows and gaze both raised) and gestures. Hearers have to adapt to the speaker (e.g. maintaining the theme of the conversation, smiling etc.). Research into the interaction of these channels is however limited, often focusing on the interaction between a pair of channels. Six significant scientific results achieved in this area in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and the Czech Republic were presented by keynote speakers in special plenary sessions. Further, approx. 35% of all submitted papers and their presentations were oriented towards multi-modal interaction as well.Invited Talks
Language Modeling Experiments with Random Forests
The Role of Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?
On the Acoustic Components in Multimedia Presentations
Fusing Data Streams in Continuous Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
Speech Based User Interface for Users with Special Needs
Text
Automatic Construction of a Valency Lexicon of Czech Adjectives
WebTranscribe – An Extensible Web-Based Speech Annotation Framework
Learning Syntactic Patterns Using Boosting and Other Classifier Combination Schemas
Text Classification with Tournament Methods
New Meta-grammar Constructs in Czech Language Parser synt
Anaphora in Czech: Large Data and Experiments with Automatic Anaphora Resolution
Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX: Recent Experiments with Frame Disambiguation
AARLISS – An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Long-Distance Inter Sentential Scenarios
Detection and Correction of Malapropisms in Spanish by Means of Internet Search
The Szeged Treebank
Automatic Lemmatizer Construction with Focus on OOV Words Lemmatization
Modeling Syntax of Free Word-Order Languages: Dependency Analysis by Reduction
Morphological Meanings in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0
Automatic Acquisition of a Slovak Lexicon from a Raw Corpus
Equilibrium Points of Single-Layered Neural Networks with Feedback and Applications in the Analysis of Text Documents
A Syntax and Semantics Linking Algorithm for the Chinese Language
Fuzzy Information Retrieval Indexed by Concept Identification
A Theme Allocation for a Sentence Based on Head Driven Patterns
Speech
A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Language Modeling with Multilayer Perceptrons and Unigrams
Supervised and Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Czech
Modelling Lexical Stress
The Sound Database Formation for the Allophone-Based Model for English Concatenative Speech Synthesis
Using Artificially Reverberated Training Data in Distant-Talking ASR
French–German Bilingual Acoustic Modeling for Embedded Voice Driven Applications
Sinusoidal Modeling Using Wavelet Packet Transform Applied to the Analysis and Synthesis of Speech Signals
Speaker Identification Based on Subtractive Clustering Algorithm with Estimating Number of Clusters
On Modelling Glottal Stop in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Analysis of the Suitability of Common Corpora for Emotional Speech Modeling in Standard Basque
Discrete and Fluent Voice Dictation in Czech Language
Unit Selection for Speech Synthesis Based on Acoustic Criteria
Generative Model for Decoding a Phoneme Recognizer Output
Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis
Phoneme Based Acoustics Keyword Spotting in Informal Continuous Speech
Explicit Duration Modelling in HMM/ANN Hybrid
Mapping the Speech Signal onto Electromagnetic Articulography Trajectories Using Support Vector Regression
Automatic Transcription of Numerals in Inflectional Languages
Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation
Compact Representation of Speech Using 2-D Cepstrum – An Application to Slovak Digits Recognition
An Alternative Way of Semantic Interpretation
Robust Rule-Based Method for Automatic Break Assignment in Russian Texts
Introduction of Improved UWB Speaker Verification System
Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP
The VoiceTRAN Speech-to-Speech Communicator
Dialogue
Cluster Analysis of Railway Directory Inquire Dialogs
A Framework for Rapid Multimodal Application Design
Language-Independent Communication Using Icons on a PDA
Software Tutors for Dialogue Systems
Questions in Estonian Information Dialogues: Form and Functions
Reducing Question Answering Input Data Using Named Entity Recognition
Annotating Structural Constraints in Discourse Corpora
A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering
Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification