Text, Speech and Dialogue: 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. Proceedings

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Future of Text-Meaning in Computational Linguistics....Pages 3-11
Deep Lexical Semantics....Pages 13-13
Toward the Ultimate ASR Language Model....Pages 15-15
Practical Prosody....Pages 17-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Sentiment Detection Using Lexically-Based Classifiers....Pages 21-28
First Steps in Building a Verb Valency Lexicon for Romanian....Pages 29-36
Hyponymy Patterns....Pages 37-44
Temporal Issues and Recognition Errors on the Capitalization of Speech Transcriptions....Pages 45-52
Web-Based Lemmatisation of Named Entities....Pages 53-60
Combining Multiple Resources to Build Reliable Wordnets....Pages 61-68
Active Tags for Semantic Analysis....Pages 69-76
Spoken Requests for Tourist Information....Pages 77-84
Affisix: Tool for Prefix Recognition....Pages 85-92
Variants and Homographs....Pages 93-100
An Empirical Bayesian Method for Detecting Out of Context Words....Pages 101-108
Semantic Classes in Czech Valency Lexicon....Pages 109-116
A Comparison of Language Models for Dialog Act Segmentation of Meeting Transcripts....Pages 117-124
New Methods for Pruning and Ordering of Syntax Parsing Trees....Pages 125-131
Web People Search with Domain Ranking....Pages 133-140
Disyllabic Chinese Word Extraction Based on Character Thesaurus and Semantic Constraints in Word-Formation....Pages 141-151
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Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation in Contexts for Russian Nouns Denoting Physical Objects....Pages 153-159
Where Do Parsing Errors Come From....Pages 161-168
Dealing with Small, Noisy and Imbalanced Data....Pages 169-176
Statistical Properties of Overlapping Ambiguities in Chinese Word Segmentation and a Strategy for Their Disambiguation....Pages 177-186
The Verb Argument Browser....Pages 187-192
Thinking in Objects....Pages 193-200
Improving Unsupervised WSD with a Dynamic Thesaurus....Pages 201-210
Normalization of Temporal Information in Estonian....Pages 211-218
Word Sense Disambiguation with Semantic Networks....Pages 219-226
A Pattern-Based Framework for Uncertainty Representation in Ontologies....Pages 227-234
MSD Recombination for Statistical Machine Translation into Highly-Inflected Languages....Pages 235-242
A Computational Framework to Integrate Different Semantic Resources....Pages 243-250
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Age Determination of Children in Preschool and Primary School Age with GMM-Based Supervectors and Support Vector Machines/Regression....Pages 253-260
Language Acquisition: The Emergence of Words from Multimodal Input....Pages 261-268
A Tagged Corpus-Based Study for Repeats and Self-repairs Detection in French Transcribed Speech....Pages 269-276
Study on Speaker Adaptation Methods in the Broadcast News Transcription Task....Pages 277-284
Spoken Document Retrieval Based on Approximated Sequence Alignment....Pages 285-292
Pitch Accents, Boundary Tones and Contours: Automatic Learning of Czech Intonation....Pages 293-301
On the Use of MLP Features for Broadcast News Transcription....Pages 303-310
Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition in Telephone Based Dialog System Using Limited Audio Resources....Pages 311-316
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Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems....Pages 317-324
Influence of Reading Errors on the Text-Based Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Voices....Pages 325-332
Czech Pitch Contour Modeling Using Linear Prediction....Pages 333-339
Energy Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 341-347
HMM-Based Speech Synthesis for the Greek Language....Pages 349-356
Advances in Acoustic Modeling for the Recognition of Czech....Pages 357-363
Talking Head as Life Blog....Pages 365-372
The Module of Morphological and Syntactic Analysis SMART....Pages 373-380
An Extension to the Sammon Mapping for the Robust Visualization of Speaker Dependencies....Pages 381-388
Analysis of Hypernasal Speech in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate....Pages 389-396
Syllable Based Language Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Polish....Pages 397-401
Accent and Channel Adaptation for Use in a Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System....Pages 403-410
Efficient Unit-Selection in Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 411-418
Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance....Pages 419-426
UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation....Pages 427-434
Perceptually Motivated Sub-band Decomposition for FDLP Audio Coding....Pages 435-442
Forced-Alignment and Edit-Distance Scoring for Vocabulary Tutoring Applications....Pages 443-450
Exploiting Contextual Information for Speech/Non-Speech Detection....Pages 451-459
Identification of Speakers from Their Hum....Pages 461-468
Reverse Correlation for Analyzing MLP Posterior Features in ASR....Pages 469-476
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Acquisition of Telephone Data from Radio Broadcasts with Applications to Language Recognition....Pages 477-483
Multilingual Weighted Codebooks for Non-native Speech Recognition....Pages 485-492
Prosodic Phrases and Semantic Accents in Speech Corpus for Czech TTS Synthesis....Pages 493-500
Making Speech Technologies Available in (Serviko) Romani Language....Pages 501-508
Emulating Temporal Receptive Fields of Higher Level Auditory Neurons for ASR....Pages 509-516
A Framework for Language-Independent Analysis and Prosodic Feature Annotation of Text Corpora....Pages 517-524
Quantification of Segmentation and F0 Errors and Their Effect on Emotion Recognition....Pages 525-534
Deep Syntactic Analysis and Rule Based Accentuation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 535-542
Error Prediction-Based Semi-automatic Segmentation of Speech Databases....Pages 543-550
Front Matter....Pages 551-551
Cognitive and Emotional Interaction....Pages 553-560
Architecture Model and Tools for Perceptual Dialog Systems....Pages 561-568
The Generation of Emotional Expressions for a Text-Based Dialogue Agent....Pages 569-576
Intelligent Voice Navigation of Spreadsheets....Pages 577-584
A Semi-automatic Wizard of Oz Technique for Let’sFly Spoken Dialogue System....Pages 585-592
Developing a Dialogue System....Pages 593-600
Dialogue-Based Processing of Graphics and Graphical Ontologies....Pages 601-608
An Issue-Based Approach to Information Search Modelling: Analysis of a Human Dialog Corpus....Pages 609-616
Two-Level Fusion to Improve Emotion Classification in Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 617-624
Automatic Semantic Annotation of Polish Dialogue Corpus....Pages 625-632
Evaluation of the Slovak Spoken Dialogue System Based on ITU-T....Pages 633-640
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Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS....Pages 641-648
Dialogue Based Text Editing....Pages 649-655
SSML for Arabic Language....Pages 657-664
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