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

Front Matter....Pages -
Code Breaking for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 1-1
The Semantics of Semantics in Language Processing....Pages 2-2
Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems....Pages 3-13
Semantic Information Processing for Multi-party Interaction....Pages 14-14
Communication Disorders and Speech Technology....Pages 15-15
A Gradual Combination of Features for Building Automatic Summarisation Systems....Pages 16-23
Combining Text Vector Representations for Information Retrieval....Pages 24-31
Detecting and Correcting Errors in an English Tectogrammatical Annotation....Pages 32-39
Improving the Clustering of Blogosphere with a Self-term Enriching Technique....Pages 40-47
Advances in Czech – Signed Speech Translation....Pages 48-55
Improving Word Alignment Using Alignment of Deep Structures....Pages 56-63
Trdlo, an Open Source Tool for Building Transducing Dictionary....Pages 64-69
Improving Patient Opinion Mining through Multi-step Classification....Pages 70-76
Update Summarization Based on Latent Semantic Analysis....Pages 77-84
WEBSOM Method - Word Categories in Czech Written Documents....Pages 85-92
Opinion Target Network: A Two-Layer Directed Graph for Opinion Target Extraction....Pages 93-100
The Czech Broadcast Conversation Corpus....Pages 101-108
Vector-Based Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation for Large Number of Contexts....Pages 109-115
Chinese Pinyin-Text Conversion on Segmented Text....Pages 116-123
Mining Phrases from Syntactic Analysis....Pages 124-130
Problems with Pruning in Automatic Creation of Semantic Valence Dictionary for Polish....Pages 131-138
Disambiguating Tags in Blogs....Pages 139-146
Intraclausal Coordination and Clause Detection as a Preprocessing Step to Dependency Parsing....Pages 147-153
Transcription of Catalan Broadcast Conversation....Pages 154-161
An Analysis of the Impact of Ambiguity on Automatic Humour Recognition....Pages 162-169
Objective vs. Subjective Evaluation of Speakers with and without Complete Dentures....Pages 170-177
Automatic Pitch-Synchronous Phonetic Segmentation with Context-Independent HMMs....Pages 178-185
First Experiments on Text-to-Speech System Personification....Pages 186-193
Parsing with Agreement....Pages 194-201
An Adaptive BIC Approach for Robust Speaker Change Detection in Continuous Audio Streams....Pages 202-209
Fusion of Acoustic and Prosodic Features for Speaker Clustering....Pages 210-217
Combining Topic Information and Structure Information in a Dynamic Language Model....Pages 218-225
Expanding Topic-Focus Articulation with Boundary and Accent Assignment Rules for Romanian Sentence....Pages 226-233
Lexical Affinity Measure between Words....Pages 234-241
Multimodal Labeling....Pages 242-249
The ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication “One Speaker’s Day”: Creation Principles and Annotation....Pages 250-257
The Structure of the ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication....Pages 258-265
Analysis and Assessment of AvID: Multi-Modal Emotional Database....Pages 266-273
Refinement Approach for Adaptation Based on Combination of MAP and fMLLR....Pages 274-281
Towards the Automatic Classification of Reading Disorders in Continuous Text Passages....Pages 282-290
A Comparison of Acoustic Models Based on Neural Networks and Gaussian Mixtures....Pages 291-298
Semantic Annotation for the LingvoSemantics Project....Pages 299-306
Hybrid Semantic Analysis....Pages 307-314
On a Computational Model for Language Acquisition: Modeling Cross-Speaker Generalisation....Pages 315-322
Efficient Parsing of Romanian Language for Text-to-Speech Purposes....Pages 323-330
Discriminative Training of Gender-Dependent Acoustic Models....Pages 331-338
Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions....Pages 339-346
Towards an Intelligent User Interface: Strategies of Giving and Receiving Phone Numbers....Pages 347-354
Error Resilient Speech Coding Using Sub-band Hilbert Envelopes....Pages 355-362
Prototyping Dialogues with Midiki: An Information State Update Dialogue Manager....Pages 363-370
Experiments with Automatic Query Formulation in the Extended Boolean Model....Pages 371-378
Daisie: Information State Dialogues for Situated Systems....Pages 379-386
Linguistic Models Construction and Analysis for Satisfaction Estimation....Pages 387-394
Shallow Features for Differentiating Disease-Treatment Relations Using Supervised Learning A Pilot Study ....Pages 395-402
Extended Hidden Vector State Parser....Pages 403-410
Semantic Annotation of City Transportation Information Dialogues Using CRF Method....Pages 411-418
Towards Flexible Dialogue Management Using Frames....Pages 419-426
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