Text, Speech and Dialogue Second International Workshop, TSD'99 Plzen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 1999, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Data-Driven Analysis of Speech.- Towards a Road Map for Machine Translation Research.- The Prague Dependency Treebank: Crossing the Sentence Boundary.- Text.- Tiered Tagging and Combined Language Models Classifiers.- Syntactic Tagging: Procedure for the Transition from the Analytic to the Tectogrammatical Tree Structures.- Information, Language, Corpus and Linguistics.- Prague Dependency Treebank: Restoration of Deletions.- Some Types of Syntactic Ambiguity; How to Treat Them in an Automatic Procedure.- Semantic Annotation of (Czech) Corpus Texts.- The General Principles of the Diachronic Part of the Czech National Corpus.- Performing Adaptive Morphological Analysis Using Internet Resources.- Automatic Text-to-Speech Alignment: Aspects of Robustification.- Czech Translation of G. Orwell’s ‘1984’: Morphology and Syntactic Patterns in the Corpus.- Handling Word Order in a Multilingual System for Generation of Instructions.- Text Structuring in a Multilingual System for Generation of Instructions.- Leveraging Syntactic Information for Text Normalization.- Automatic Structuring of Written Texts.- Implementation of Efficient and Portable Parser for Czech.- Word Sense Disambiguation of Czech Texts.- The Acquisition of Some Lexical Constraints from Corpora.- Run-Time Extensible (Semi-)Top-Down Parser.- Enhancing Readability of Automatic Summaries by Using Schemas.- Use of a Weighted Topic Hierarchy for Document Classification.- Speech.- Remarks on Sentence Prosody and Topic-Focus Articulation.- Speech Recognition Using Elman Neural Networks.- Use of Hidden Markov Models for Evaluation of Russian Digits Pronunciation by the Foreigners.- Allophone-Based Concatenative Speech Synthesis Systemfor Russian.- Intonation Questions in English and Armenian: Results of the Perceptual Study.- Methods of Sentences Selection for Read-Speech Corpus Design.- Speaker Identification Using Discriminative Centroids Weighting — A Growing Cell Structure Approach.- Speech Analysis and Recognition Synchronised by One-Quasiperiodical Segmentation.- Spanish Phoneme Classification by Means of a Hierarchy of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps.- Information Theoretic Based Segments for Language Identification.- Fast and Robust Features for Prosodic Classification?.- A Segment Based Approach for Prosodic Boundary Detection?.- Speech Recognition and Syllable Segments.- Text Preprocessing for Czech Speech Synthesis.- MLPs and Mixture Models for the Estimation of the Posterior Probabilities of Class Membership.- A Simple Spanish Part of Speech Tagger for Detection and Correction of Accentuation Error.- Slovene Interactive Text-to-Speech Evaluation Site — SITES.- Developing HMM-Based Recognizers with ESMERALDA.- Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Read and Broadcast Czech.- Rules for Automatic Grapheme-to-Allophone Transcription in Slovene.- Speech Segmentation Aspects of Phone Transition Acoustical Modelling.- Context Dependent Phoneme Recognition.- State-Space Model Based Labeling of Speech Signals.- Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding: Comparison of Data-Driven Units with Syllable Segments.- Storing Prosody Attributes of Spontaneous Speech.- Dialogue.- An Overview of the State of the Art of Coding Schemes for Dialogue Act Annotation.- Structural and Semantic Dialogue Filters.- A Retrieval System of Broadcast News Speech Documents through Keyboard and Voice.- Situations in Dialogs.- Components for Building an Automatic Voice-Dialogue Telephone System.- Modeling of the InformationRetrieval Dialogue Systems.- Improvement of the Recognition Rate of Spoken Queries to the Dialogue System.- Analysis of Different Dialog Strategies in the Slovenian Spoken Dialog System.- Posters.- Dispersion of Words in a Language Corpus.- Corpus-Based Rules for Czech Verb Discontinuous Constituents.- Automatic Modelling of Regional Pronunciation Variation for Russian.- Experiments Regarding the Superposition of Emotional Features on Neutral Korean Speech.- Modeling Cue Phrases in Turkish: A Case Study.- Speaker Identification Based on Vector Quantization.- Robustness in Tabular Deduction for Multimodal Logical Grammar — Part 1.- Classifying Visemes for Automatic Lipreading.- Semantic Inference in the Human-Machine Communication.- Playing with RST: Two Algorithms for the Automated Manipulation of Discourse Trees.- Another Step in the Modeling of Basque Intonation: Bermeo.- Electronic Dictionaries: For Both Humans and Computers.- Statistical Evaluation of Similarity Measures on Multi-lingual Text Corpora.- Document Title Patterns in Information Retrieval.- Statistical Approach to the Automatic Synthesis of Czech Speech.- Language Model Representations for the GOPOLIS Database.- Recognition of Alkohol Influence on Speech.- Recording of Czech and Slovak Telephone Databases within SpeechDat-E.- Pragmatic Features of the Electronic Discourse in the Internet.