Text, Speech and Dialogue 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Language Modeling with Linguistic Cluster Constraints.- Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians.- Some Special Problems of Speech Communication.- Recent Advances in Spoken Language Understanding.- Text.- Transformation-Based Tectogrammatical Dependency Analysis of English.- Multilingual Name Disambiguation with Semantic Information.- Inducing Classes of Terms from Text.- Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing for Modern Hebrew.- Disambiguation of the Neuter Pronoun and Its Effect on Pronominal Coreference Resolution.- Constructing a Large Scale Text Corpus Based on the Grid and Trustworthiness.- Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget’s Thesaurus.- Dependency and Phrasal Parsers of the Czech Language: A Comparison.- Automatic Word Clustering in Russian Texts.- Feature Engineering in Maximum Spanning Tree Dependency Parser.- Automatic Selection of Heterogeneous Syntactic Features in Semantic Similarity of Polish Nouns.- Bilingual News Clustering Using Named Entities and Fuzzy Similarity.- Extractive Summarization of Broadcast News: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese.- On the Evaluation of Korean WordNet.- An Adaptive Keyboard with Personalized Language-Based Features.- An All-Path Parsing Algorithm for Constraint-Based Dependency Grammars of CF-Power.- Word Distribution Based Methods for Minimizing Segment Overlaps.- On the Relative Hardness of Clustering Corpora.- Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Content-Based Multimedia Applications.- Automatic Diacritic Restoration for Resource-Scarce Languages.- Lexical and Perceptual Grounding of a Sound Ontology.- Named Entities in Czech: Annotating Data and Developing NE Tagger.- Identifying Expressions of Emotion in Text.- ECAF: Authoring Language for Embodied Conversational Agents.- Speech.- Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models in Speech Driven Information Retrieval.- Whitening-Based Feature Space Transformations in a Speech Impediment Therapy System.- Spanish-Basque Parallel Corpus Structure: Linguistic Annotations and Translation Units.- An Automatic Version of the Post-Laryngectomy Telephone Test.- Speaker Normalization Via Springy Discriminant Analysis and Pitch Estimation.- A Study on Speech with Manifest Emotions.- Speech Recognition Supported by Prosodic Information for Fixed Stress Languages.- TRAP-Based Techniques for Recognition of Noisy Speech.- Intelligibility Is More Than a Single Word: Quantification of Speech Intelligibility by ASR and Prosody.- Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences – What Information the Speech Analysis Brings to a Grammar Debate.- Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Speech – from Research to Routine Clinical Use.- The LIA Speech Recognition System: From 10xRT to 1xRT.- Logic-Based Rhetorical Structuring for Natural Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue.- Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Temporal Patterns.- Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis.- Sk-ToBI Scheme for Phonological Prosody Annotation in Slovak.- Towards Automatic Transcription of Large Spoken Archives in Agglutinating Languages – Hungarian ASR for the MALACH Project.- Non-uniform Speech/Audio Coding Exploiting Predictability of Temporal Evolution of Spectral Envelopes.- Filled Pauses in Speech Synthesis: Towards Conversational Speech.- Exploratory Analysis of Word Use and Sentence Length in the Spoken Dutch Corpus.- Design of Tandem Architecture Using Segmental Trend Features.- An Automatic Retraining Method for Speaker Independent Hidden Markov Models.- User Modeling to Support the Development of an Auditory Help System.- Fast Discriminant Training of Semi-continuous HMM.- Speech/Music Discrimination Using Mel-Cepstrum Modulation Energy.- Parameterization of the Input in Training the HVS Semantic Parser.- A Comparison Using Different Speech Parameters in the Automatic Emotion Recognition Using Feature Subset Selection Based on Evolutionary Algorithms.- Benefit of Maximum Likelihood Linear Transform (MLLT) Used at Different Levels of Covariance Matrices Clustering in ASR Systems.- Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech.- Inter-speaker Synchronization in Audiovisual Database for Lip-Readable Speech to Animation Conversion.- Constructing Empirical Models for Automatic Dialog Parameterization.- The Effect of Lexicon Composition in Pronunciation by Analogy.- Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System.- Voice Conversion Based on Probabilistic Parameter Transformation and Extended Inter-speaker Residual Prediction.- Automatic Czech – Sign Speech Translation.- Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Mutual Information Training in Gender and Age Recognition System.- Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys?.- Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis.- Topic-Focus Articulation Algorithm on the Syntax-Prosody Interface of Romanian.- Translation and Conversion for Czech Sign Speech Synthesis.- Dialog.- A Wizard-of-Oz System Evaluation Study.- New Measures for Open-Domain Question Answering Evaluation Within a Time Constraint.- A Methodology for Domain Dialogue Engineering with the Midiki Dialogue Manager.- The Intonational Realization of Requests in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues.- Analysis of Changes in Dialogue Rhythm Due to Dialogue Acts in Task-Oriented Dialogues.- Recognition and Understanding Simulation for a Spoken Dialog Corpus Acquisition.- First Approach in the Development of Multimedia Information Retrieval Resources for the Basque Context.- The Weakest Link.- A Spoken Dialog System for Chat-Like Conversations Considering Response Timing.- Digitisation and Automatic Alignment of the DIALOG Corpus: A Prosodically Annotated Corpus of Czech Television Debates.- Setting Layout in Dialogue Generating Web Pages.- Graph-Based Answer Fusion in Multilingual Question Answering.- Using Query-Relevant Documents Pairs for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.- Detection of Dialogue Acts Using Perplexity-Based Word Clustering.- Dialogue Management for Intelligent TV Based on Statistical Learning Method.- Multiple-Taxonomy Question Classification for Category Search on Faceted Information.- Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Content-Based Multimedia Applications.