Text, Speech and Dialogue: 7th International Conference, TSD 2004, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-11, 2004, Proceedings(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2004, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004. The 78 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as information retrieval, the semantic Web, algorithmic learning, classification and clustering, speaker recognition and verification, and dialogue management.

Table of Contents:
Invited Papers.- Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future?.- Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context.- ScanSoft’s Technologies.- Text.- A Positional Linguistics-Based System for Word Alignment.- Handling Multi-word Expressions Without Explicit Linguistic Rules in an MT System.- The Szeged Corpus: A POS Tagged and Syntactically Annotated Hungarian Natural Language Corpus.- Item Summarization in Personalisation of News Delivery Systems.- IR-n System, a Passage Retrieval Architecture.- Event Clustering in the News Domain.- HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation.- Using Linguistic Resources to Construct Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts.- Slovak National Corpus.- Grammatical Heads Optimized for Parsing and Their Comparison with Linguistic Intuition.- How Dominant Is the Commonest Sense of a Word?.- POS Tagging of Hungarian with Combined Statistical and Rule-Based Methods.- Grammatical Relations Identification of Korean Parsed Texts Using Support Vector Machines.- Clustering Abstracts Instead of Full Texts.- Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-of-Speech Tagger.- Automatic Language Identification Using Phoneme and Automatically Derived Unit Strings.- Slovak Text-to-Speech Synthesis in ARTIC System.- Identifying Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models.- A Lexical Grammatical Implementation of Affect.- Towards Full Lexical Recognition.- Discriminative Models of SCFG and STSG.- Coupling Grammar and Knowledge Base: Range Concatenation Grammars and Description Logics.- Balancing Manual and Automatic Indexing for Retrieval of Paper Abstracts.- Unsupervised Learning of Rules for Morphological Disambiguation.- AmbiguousSupertagging Using a Feature Structure.- A Practical Word Sense Disambiguation System with High Performance for Korean.- Morphological Tagging of Russian Texts of the XIXth Century.- Speech.- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Estonian Using Morphemes and Classes.- A New Classifier for Speaker Verification Based on the Fractional Brownian Motion Process.- A Universal Human Machine Speech Interaction Language for Robust Speech Recognition Applications.- Embedded ViaVoice.- New Speech Enhancement Approach for Formant Evolution Detection.- Measurement of Complementarity of Recognition Systems.- Text-to-Speech for Slovak Language.- Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets.- A Decoding Algorithm for Speech Input Statistical Translation.- Aggregation Operators and Hypothesis Space Reductions in Speech Recognition.- Combinations of TRAP Based Systems.- Automatic Recognition and Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech.- Using Neural Networks to Model Prosody in Czech TTS System Epos.- Auditory Scene Analysis via Application of ICA in a Time-Frequency Domain.- Using the Lemmatization Technique for Phonetic Transcription in Text-to-Speech System.- Automatic Categorization of Voicemail Transcripts Using Stochastic Language Models.- Low Latency Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization.- Multimodal Phoneme Recognition of Meeting Data.- A New Multi-modal Database for Developing Speech Recognition Systems for an Assistive Technology Application.- Obtaining and Evaluating an Emotional Database for Prosody Modelling in Standard Basque.- Fully Automated Approach to Broadcast News Transcription in Czech Language.- A Computational Model of Intonation for Yorùbá Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Design and Analysis.- Dynamic UnitSelection for Very Low Bit Rate Coding at 500 bits/sec.- On the Background Model Construction for Speaker Verification Using GMM.- A Speaker Clustering Algorithm for Fast Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition.- Advanced Prosody Modelling.- Voice Stress Analysis.- Slovak Speech Database for Experiments and Application Building in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis.- Towards Lower Error Rates in Phoneme Recognition.- Examination of Pronunciation Variation from Hand-Labelled Corpora.- New Refinement Schemes for Voice Conversion.- Acoustic and Linguistic Information Based Chinese Prosodic Boundary Labelling.- F0 Prediction Model of Speech Synthesis Based on Template and Statistical Method.- An Architecture for Spoken Document Retrieval.- Evaluation of the Slovenian HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System.- Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments.- Parallel Root-Finding Method for LPC Analysis of Speech.- Automatic General Letter-to-Sound Rules Generation for German Text-to-Speech System.- Pitch Accent Prediction from ToBI Annotated Corpora Based on Bayesian Learning.- Processing of Logical Expressions for Visually Impaired Users.- Dialogue.- Durational Aspects of Turn-Taking in Spontaneous Face-to-Face and Telephone Dialogues.- A Speech Platform for a Bilingual City Information System.- Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology.- Building Voice Applications from Web Content.- Information-Providing Dialogue Management.- Realistic Face Animation for a Czech Talking Head.- Evaluation of a Web Based Information System for Blind and Visually Impaired Students: A Descriptive Study.- Multimodal Dialogue Management.- Looking at the Last Two Turns, I’d Say This Dialogue Is Doomed – Measuring Dialogue Success.- LogicalApproach to Natural Language Understanding in a Spoken Dialogue System.- Building a Dependency-Based Grammar for Parsing Informal Mathematical Discourse.