Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 16th International Conference, TSD 2013, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2013. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Corpora of the Russian Language....Pages 1-13
Long, Deep and Wide Artificial Neural Nets for Dealing with Unexpected Noise in Machine Recognition of Speech....Pages 14-21
Multilingual Media Monitoring and Text Analysis – Challenges for Highly Inflected Languages....Pages 22-33
Spoken Dialogs with Children for Science Learning and Literacy....Pages 34-34
Statecharts and SCXML for Dialogue Management....Pages 35-35
A Comparison of Deep Neural Network Training Methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition....Pages 36-43
A Comparison of Two Approaches to Bilingual HMM-Based Speech Synthesis....Pages 44-51
A Direct Criterion Minimization Based fMLLR via Gradient Descend....Pages 52-59
A Machine Learning Based Approach for Vocabulary Selection for Speech Transcription....Pages 60-67
A New State-of-The-Art Czech Named Entity Recognizer....Pages 68-75
Algorithms for Dysfluency Detection in Symbolic Sequences Using Suffix Arrays....Pages 76-83
Analysis and Combination of Forward and Backward Based Decoders for Improved Speech Transcription....Pages 84-91
Annotating Signs of Syntactic Complexity to Support Sentence Simplification....Pages 92-104
Application of LSTM Neural Networks in Language Modelling....Pages 105-112
Automatic Laughter Detection in Spontaneous Speech Using GMM–SVM Method....Pages 113-120
Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation with Part-of-Speech Information....Pages 121-128
Automatic Extraction of Polish Language Errors from Text Edition History....Pages 129-136
Bilingual Voice Conversion by Weighted Frequency Warping Based on Formant Space....Pages 137-144
Building a Hybrid: Chatterbot – Dialog System....Pages 145-152
CRF-Based Czech Named Entity Recognizer and Consolidation of Czech NER Research....Pages 153-160
Comparison and Analysis of Several Phonetic Decoding Approaches....Pages 161-168
Concatenation Artifact Detection Trained from Listeners Evaluations....Pages 169-176
Configuring TTS Evaluation Method Based on Unit Cost Outlier Detection....Pages 177-184
Development and Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems with One or Two Agents through Two Domains....Pages 185-192
Distant Supervision Learning of DBPedia Relations....Pages 193-200
Downdating Lexicon and Language Model for Automatic Transcription of Czech Historical Spoken Documents....Pages 201-208
Dynamic Threshold Selection Method for Multi-label Newspaper Topic Identification....Pages 209-216
Efficiency of Multi-tap Text Entry Method on Interactive Television....Pages 217-224
English Nominal Compound Detection with Wikipedia-Based Methods....Pages 225-232
Evaluating Voice Quality and Speech Synthesis Using Crowdsourcing....Pages 233-240
Experiment with Evaluation of Quality of the Synthetic Speech by the GMM Classifier....Pages 241-248
Experiments on Reducing Footprint of Unit Selection TTS System....Pages 249-256
Expressive Speech Synthesis for Urgent Warning Messages Generation in Romani and Slovak....Pages 257-264
Extracting Relations between Arabic Named Entities....Pages 265-271
Foot Detection in Czech Using Pitch Information and HMM....Pages 272-279
Improved Hungarian Morphological Disambiguation with Tagger Combination....Pages 280-287
Improving Dependency Parsing by Filtering Linguistic Noise....Pages 288-294
Improving Speech Recognition by Detecting Foreign Inclusions and Generating Pronunciations....Pages 295-302
Intensifying Verb Prefix Patterns in Czech and Russian....Pages 303-310
K-Component Adaptive Recurrent Neural Network Language Models....Pages 311-318
LIUM ASR System for ETAPE French Evaluation Campaign: Experiments on System Combination Using Open-Source Recognizers....Pages 319-326
Lexical Stress-Based Morphological Decomposition and Its Application for Ukrainian Speech Recognition....Pages 327-334
Motion Event in Croatian, English, German and Italian Concerning Path Prefixes and Prepositions....Pages 335-342
Multi-label Document Classification in Czech....Pages 343-351
On Behaviour of PLDA Models in the Task of Speaker Recognition....Pages 352-359
On the Quantitative and Qualitative Speech Changes of the Czech Radio Broadcasts News within Years 1969–2005....Pages 360-368
On the Use of Phoneme Lattices in Spoken Language Understanding....Pages 369-377
Online Speaker Adaptation of an Acoustic Model Using Face Recognition....Pages 378-385
Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian....Pages 386-393
Phoneme Set and Pronouncing Dictionary Creation for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Vietnamese....Pages 394-401
Phonetic Spoken Term Detection in Large Audio Archive Using the WFST Framework....Pages 402-409
Ranking Machine Translation Systems via Post-editing....Pages 410-418
Recursive Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Word Structures....Pages 419-425
Resolving Ambiguities in Sentence Boundary Detection in Russian Spontaneous Speech....Pages 426-433
Revealing Prevailing Semantic Contents of Clusters Generated from Untagged Freely Written Text Documents in Natural Languages....Pages 434-441
Robust Methodology for TTS Enhancement Evaluation....Pages 442-449
Romanian Syllabication Using Machine Learning....Pages 450-456
SVM-Based Detection of Misannotated Words in Read Speech Corpora....Pages 457-464
Scratching the Surface of Possible Translations....Pages 465-474
Selecting and Weighting N-Grams to Identify 1100 Languages....Pages 475-483
Semantic Spaces for Sentiment Analysis....Pages 484-491
Semi-automatic Verb Valence Frame Assignment through VerbNet Classification....Pages 492-500
Speaker-Specific Pronunciation for Speech Synthesis....Pages 501-508
Structuring a Multimedia Tri-Dialectal Dictionary....Pages 509-518
Stylistic Changes for Temporal Text Classification....Pages 519-526
SummEC: A Summarization Engine for Czech....Pages 527-535
Text-to-Speech Alignment for Imperfect Transcriptions....Pages 536-543
The CNG Corpus of European Portuguese Children’s Speech....Pages 544-551
The Joint Optimization of Spectro-Temporal Features and Neural Net Classifiers....Pages 552-559
Three Syntactic Formalisms for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Croatian....Pages 560-567
Topic Models for Comparative Summarization....Pages 568-574
Using Low-Cost Annotation to Train a Reliable Czech Shallow Parser....Pages 575-582
Verb Subcategorisation Acquisition for Estonian Based on Morphological Information....Pages 583-590
Whispered Speech Database: Design, Processing and Application....Pages 591-598
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