Text, Speech and Dialogue 12th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009. Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Code Breaking for Automatic Speech Recognition.- The Semantics of Semantics in Language Processing.- Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems.- Semantic Information Processing for Multi-party Interaction.- Communication Disorders and Speech Technology.- Text.- A Gradual Combination of Features for Building Automatic Summarisation Systems.- Combining Text Vector Representations for Information Retrieval.- Detecting and Correcting Errors in an English Tectogrammatical Annotation.- Improving the Clustering of Blogosphere with a Self-term Enriching Technique.- Advances in Czech – Signed Speech Translation.- Improving Word Alignment Using Alignment of Deep Structures.- Trdlo, an Open Source Tool for Building Transducing Dictionary.- Improving Patient Opinion Mining through Multi-step Classification.- Update Summarization Based on Latent Semantic Analysis.- WEBSOM Method - Word Categories in Czech Written Documents.- Opinion Target Network: A Two-Layer Directed Graph for Opinion Target Extraction.- The Czech Broadcast Conversation Corpus.- Vector-Based Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation for Large Number of Contexts.- Chinese Pinyin-Text Conversion on Segmented Text.- Mining Phrases from Syntactic Analysis.- Problems with Pruning in Automatic Creation of Semantic Valence Dictionary for Polish.- Speech.- Disambiguating Tags in Blogs.- Intraclausal Coordination and Clause Detection as a Preprocessing Step to Dependency Parsing.- Transcription of Catalan Broadcast Conversation.- An Analysis of the Impact of Ambiguity on Automatic Humour Recognition.- Objective vs. Subjective Evaluation of Speakers with and without Complete Dentures.- Automatic Pitch-Synchronous Phonetic Segmentation with Context-Independent HMMs.- First Experiments on Text-to-Speech System Personification.- Parsing with Agreement.- An Adaptive BIC Approach for Robust Speaker Change Detection in Continuous Audio Streams.- Fusion of Acoustic and Prosodic Features for Speaker Clustering.- Combining Topic Information and Structure Information in a Dynamic Language Model.- Expanding Topic-Focus Articulation with Boundary and Accent Assignment Rules for Romanian Sentence.- Lexical Affinity Measure between Words.- Multimodal Labeling.- The ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication “One Speaker’s Day”: Creation Principles and Annotation.- The Structure of the ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication.- Analysis and Assessment of AvID: Multi-Modal Emotional Database.- Refinement Approach for Adaptation Based on Combination of MAP and fMLLR.- Towards the Automatic Classification of Reading Disorders in Continuous Text Passages.- A Comparison of Acoustic Models Based on Neural Networks and Gaussian Mixtures.- Semantic Annotation for the LingvoSemantics Project.- Hybrid Semantic Analysis.- On a Computational Model for Language Acquisition: Modeling Cross-Speaker Generalisation.- Efficient Parsing of Romanian Language for Text-to-Speech Purposes.- Discriminative Training of Gender-Dependent Acoustic Models.- Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions.- Towards an Intelligent User Interface: Strategies of Giving and Receiving Phone Numbers.- Error Resilient Speech Coding Using Sub-band Hilbert Envelopes.- Dialog.- Prototyping Dialogues with Midiki: An Information State Update Dialogue Manager.- Experiments with Automatic Query Formulation in the Extended Boolean Model.- Daisie: Information State Dialogues for Situated Systems.- Linguistic Models Construction and Analysis for Satisfaction Estimation.- Shallow Features for Differentiating Disease-Treatment Relations Using Supervised Learning A Pilot Study.- Extended Hidden Vector State Parser.- Semantic Annotation of City Transportation Information Dialogues Using CRF Method.- Towards Flexible Dialogue Management Using Frames.