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

Springer, 2003. — 439 p.6th International Conference, TSD 2003, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2003 Proceedings.
The International Conference TSD 2003, the sixth event in the series on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, which originated in 1998, presents state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the field of natural language processing. This year’s conference includes invited talks given by top-class researchers (Frederick Jelinek from Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Sadaoki Furui from the University of Technology in Tokyo, President of ISCA, and Steven Krauwer from the Institute of Linguistics of Utrecht University), plenary and problem-oriented sessions, as well as poster sessions and demonstrations involving 28 functional applications.
The conference declares its intent to be an interdisciplinary forum, which intertwines research in speech and language processing as well as research in the Eastern and Western hemispheres. We feel that the mixture of different approaches and applications gives a great opportunity to get acquainted with the current activities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of research from the former East Block countries. The financial support of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) enables the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world.Invited Talks
Combating the Sparse Data Problem of Language Modelling
Toward Robust Speech Recognition and Understanding
Text
A Pilot Study of English Selectional Preferences and Their Cross-Lingual Compatibility with Basque
Auto-tagging of Text Documents into XML
Stable Coordinated Pairs in Text Processing
Backoff DOP: Parameter Estimation by Backoff
Document Clustering into an Unknown Number of Clusters Using a Genetic Algorithm
Experiments in German Treebank Parsing
A Theoretical Basis of an Architecture of a Shell of a Reasonably Robust Syntactic Analyser
Si3Trenn and Si3Silb: Using the SiSiSiWord Analysis System for Pre-hyphenation and Syllable Counting in German Documents
Detecting Annotation Errors in a Corpus by Induction of Syntactic Patterns
The Computational Complexity of Rule-Based Part-of-Speech Tagging
Text Corpus with Errors
Identification of Multiwords as Preprocessing for Automatic Extraction of Lexical Similarities
Build a Large-Scale Syntactically Annotated Chinese Corpus
Computational Benefits of a Totally Lexicalist Grammar
Using a Czech Valency Lexicon for Annotation Support
On Concept Based Approach for Determining Semantic Index Terms
Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet
Optimising Attribute Selection in Conversational Search
Russian Corpus of the 19th Century
Speech
On Homogeneous Segments
Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition by Imitating Spreading Activation
The Incorporation of Confidence Measures to Language Understanding
Speech Recognition with μ-Law Companded Features on Reverberated Signals
Understanding Speech Based on a Bayesian Concept Extraction Method
A Data-Driven Framework for Intonational Phrase Break Prediction
Phoneme Recognition Using Temporal Patterns
Multi-array Multi-speaker Tracking
Towards Automatic Transcription of Spontaneous Czech Speech in the MALACH Project
TERSEO: Temporal Expression Resolution System Applied to Event Ordering
Non-native Pronunciation Variants of City Names as a Problem for Speech Technology Applications
Improving Speech Recognition by Utilizing Domain Knowledge and Confidence Measures
Comparison of Acoustic Adaptation Methods in Multilingual Speech Recognition Environment
A Comparison of Unit Selection Techniques in Limited Domain Speech Synthesis
Recognition of Speech with Non-random Attributes
Text-Independent Speaker Verification: The WCL-1 System
Local Time-Frequency Operators in TRAPs for Speech Recognition
Entropy and Dynamism Criteria for Speech and Audio Classification Applications
Speech Production: Phonetic Encoding of Real and Non-words
Experiments with Automatic Segmentation for Czech Speech Synthesis
All-Pole Modeling for Definition of Speech Features in Aurora3 DSR Task
Building of a Vocabulary for the Automatic Voice-Dictation System
Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization in a Phonological Awareness Teaching System
Hard-Testing the Multi-stream Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition
Pitch-Synchronous Speech Signal Segmentation and Its Applications
Building LVCSR System for Transcription of Spontaneously Pronounced Russian Testimonies in the MALACH Project: Initial Steps and First Results
The Phase Substitutions in Czech Harmonic Concatenative Speech Synthesis
Dialogue
Combining Task Descriptions and Ontological Knowledge for Adaptive Dialogue
Large Text and Audio Data Alignment for Multimedia Applications
Building Multilingual Speech Corpora from Interpreted Spontaneous Dialogues on the Net
Multi-modal Voice Application Design in a Multi-client Environment
User Modeling and Plan Recognition under Conditions of Uncertainty
Bilingual Speech Recognition for a Weather Information Retrieval Dialogue System
On the Use of Prosodic Labelling in Corpus-Based Linguistic Studies of Spontaneous Speech
A Multi-modal Eliza Using Natural Language Processing and Emotion Recognition
The Wizard of Oz System for Weather Information Retrieval
Directives in Estonian Information Dialogues
SpeechDat-Like Estonian Database
Dialogue Experiment for Elderly People in Home Health Care System