Text, Speech and Dialogue 15th International Conference, TSD 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2012, Proceedings

Part I: Invited Papers.-Getting to Know Your Corpus.-Coreference Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP Applications?.-Part II: Text Semantic Similarity Functions in Word Sense Disambiguation.-Opinion Mining on a German Corpus of a Media Response Analysis.-The Soundex Phonetic Algorithm Revisited for SMS Text Representation.-Sentence Modality Assignment in the Prague Dependency Treebank.-Literacy Demands and Information to Cancer Patients.-Expanding Opinion Attribute Lexicons.-Taggers Gonna Tag: An Argument against Evaluating Disambiguation.-Capacities of Morphosyntactic Taggers..-An Ambiguity Aware Treebank Search Tool.-A New Annotation Tool for Aligned Bilingual Corpora.-Optimizing Sentence Boundary Detection for Croatian.-Mining the Web for Idiomatic Expressions Using Metalinguistic Markers.-Using Tree Transducers for Detecting Errors in a Treebank of Polish.-Combining Manual and Automatic Annotation of a Learner Corpus.-A Manually Annotated Corpus of Pharmaceutical Patents.-Large-Scale Experiments with NP Chunking of Polish.-Mapping a Lexical Semantic Resource to a Common Framework of Computational Lexicon.-The Rule-Based Approach to Czech Grammaticalized Alternations.-Semi-supervised Acquisition of Croatian Sentiment Lexicon.-Towards a Constraint Grammar Based Morphological Tagger for Croatian.-A Type-Theoretical Wide-Coverage Computational Grammar for Swedish.-Application of Lemmatization and Summarization Methods in Topic Identification Module for Large Scale Language Modeling Data Filtering -Experiments and Results with Diacritics Restoration in Romanian.-Supervised Distributional Semantic Relatedness.-PSI-Toolkit: How to Turn a Linguist into a Computational Linguist .-Heterogeneous Named Entity Similarity Function.-Joint Part-of-Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition Using Factor Graphs .-Assigning Deep Lexical Types.-SBFC: An Efficient Feature Frequency-Based Approach to Tackle Cross-LingualWord Sense Disambiguation.-Dependency Relations Labeller for Czech.-Preliminary Study on Automatic Induction of Rules for Recognition of Semantic Relations between Proper Names in Polish Texts.-Actionable Clause Detection from Non-imperative Sentences in Howto Instructions: A Step for Actionable Information Extraction.Authorship Attribution: Comparison of Single-Layer and Double-Layer Machine Learning.-Key Phrase Extraction of Lightly Filtered Broadcast News.-Using a Double Clustering Approach to Build Extractive Multi-document Summaries.-A Comparative Study of the Impact of Statistical and Semantic Features in the Framework of Extractive Text Summarization.-Using Dependency-Based Annotations for Authorship Identification.-A Space-Efficient Phrase Table Implementation Using Minimal Perfect Hash Functions.-Common Sense Inference Using Verb Valency Frames.-A Genetic Programming Experiment in Natural Language Grammar Engineering.-User Modeling for Language Learning in Facebook.-Detection of Semantic Compositionality Using Semantic Spaces .-User Adaptation in a Hybrid MT System: Feeding User Corrections into Synchronous Grammars and System Dictionarie.-Using Cognates to Improve Lexical Alignment Systems.-Disambiguating Word Translations with Target Language Models.-English-Vietnamese Machine Translation of Proper Names: Error Analysis and Some Proposed Solutions.-Improved Phrase Translation Modeling Using MAP Adaptation.-Part III: Speech.-A Romanian Language Corpus for a Commercial Text-To-Speech Application.-Making Community and ASR Join Forces in Web Environment.-Unsupervised Synchronization of Hidden Subtitles with Audio Track Using Keyword Spotting Algorithm .-Did You Say what I Think You Said? Towards a Language-Based Measurement of a Speech Recognizers Confidence.-Dealing with Numbers in Grapheme-Based Speech Recognition.-Discretion of Speech Units for the Text Post-processing Phase of Automatic Transcription (in the Czech Language) .-On the Impact of AnnotationErrors on Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis ..-Analysis of the Influence of Speech Corpora in the PLDA Verification in the Task of Speaker Recognition.-Adaptive Language Modeling with a Set of Domain Dependent Model.-Robust Adaptation Techniques Dealing with Small Amount of Data.-.Language Modeling of Nonverbal Vocalizations in Spontaneous Speech.-Acoustic Segmentation Using Group Delay Functions and Its Relevance to Spoken Keyword Spotting.-An In-Car Speech Recognition System for Disabled Drivers .-Captioning of Live TV Programs through Speech Recognition and Re-speaking.-Investigation on Most Frequent Errors in Large-Scale Speech Recognition Applications..- Neural Network Language Model with Cache.-TENOR: A Lexical Normalisation Tool for Spanish Web 2.0 Texts.-A Bilingual HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for Closely Related Languages.-The Role of Nasal Contexts on Quality of Vowel Concatenations.-Analysis and Assessment of State Relevance in HMM-Based Feature Extraction Method .-On the Impact of Non-speech Sounds on Speaker Recognition.-Automatic Rating of Hoarseness by Text-Based Cepstral and Prosodic Evaluation.-Improving the Classification of Healthy and Pathological Continuous Speech .Part IV: Dialogue.-Using Foot-Syllable Grammars to Customize Speech Recognizers for Dialogue Systems.-Coupled Pragmatic and Semantic Automata in Spoken Dialogue Management.-Exploration of Metaphor and Affect Sensing Using Semantic Interpretation in an Intelligent Agent.-Sentence Classification with Grammatical Errors and Those Out of Scope of Grammar Assumption for Dialogue-Based CALL Systems.-Spoken Dialogue System Design in 3 Weeks.-Integrating Dialogue Systems with Images.-Natural Language Understanding: From Laboratory Predictions to Real Interactions .-Unsupervised Clustering of Prosodic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech .-Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain: Comparison of Unit Selection and HMM-Based Approaches .-Aggression Detection in Speech Using Sensor and Semantic Information.-Question Classification with Active Learning.-2B$ – Testing Past Algorithms in Nowadays Web .-Morphological Resources for Precise Information Retrieval.-