Text, Speech and Dialogue: 17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Information Extraction Customizer....Pages 3-10
Entailment Graphs for Text Analytics in the Excitement Project....Pages 11-18
Multi-lingual Text Leveling....Pages 19-26
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SuMACC Project’s Corpus....Pages 29-36
Empiric Introduction to Light Stochastic Binarization....Pages 37-45
Comparative Study Concerning the Role of Surface Morphological Features in the Induction of Part-of-Speech Categories....Pages 46-52
Automatic Adaptation of Author’s Stylometric Features to Document Types....Pages 53-61
Detecting Commas in Slovak Legal Texts....Pages 62-67
Detection and Classification of Events in Hungarian Natural Language Texts....Pages 68-75
Generating Underspecified Descriptions of Landmark Objects....Pages 76-83
A Topic Model Scoring Approach for Personalized QA Systems....Pages 84-92
Feature Exploration for Authorship Attribution of Lithuanian Parliamentary Speeches....Pages 93-100
Processing of Quantitative Expressions with Measurement Units in the Nominative, Genitive, and Accusative Cases for Belarusian and Russian....Pages 101-107
Document Classification with Deep Rectifier Neural Networks and Probabilistic Sampling....Pages 108-115
Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Style and Consistency: Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Camus’ Novel “The Stranger”....Pages 116-124
Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm....Pages 125-132
Score Normalization Methods Applied to Topic Identification....Pages 133-140
Disambiguation of Japanese Onomatopoeias Using Nouns and Verbs....Pages 141-149
Continuous Distributed Representations of Words as Input of LSTM Network Language Model....Pages 150-157
NERC-fr: Supervised Named Entity Recognition for French....Pages 158-165
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Semantic Classes and Relevant Domains on WSD....Pages 166-172
An MLU Estimation Method for Hungarian Transcripts....Pages 173-180
Using Verb-Noun Patterns to Detect Process Inputs....Pages 181-188
Divergences in the Usage of Discourse Markers in English and Mandarin Chinese....Pages 189-200
Sentence Similarity by Combining Explicit Semantic Analysis and Overlapping N-Grams....Pages 201-208
Incorporating Language Patterns and Domain Knowledge into Feature-Opinion Extraction....Pages 209-216
BFQA: A Bengali Factoid Question Answering System....Pages 217-224
Dictionary-Based Problem Phrase Extraction from User Reviews....Pages 225-232
RelANE: Discovering Relations between Arabic Named Entities....Pages 233-239
Building an Arabic Linguistic Resource from a Treebank: The Case of Property Grammar....Pages 240-246
Aranea: Yet Another Family of (Comparable) Web Corpora....Pages 247-256
Towards a Unified Exploitation of Electronic Dialectal Corpora: Problems and Perspectives....Pages 257-266
Named Entity Recognition for Highly Inflectional Languages: Effects of Various Lemmatization and Stemming Approaches....Pages 267-274
An Experiment with Theme–Rheme Identification....Pages 275-284
Self Training Wrapper Induction with Linked Data....Pages 285-292
Paraphrase and Textual Entailment Generation....Pages 293-300
Clustering in a News Corpus....Pages 301-307
Partial Grammar Checking for Czech Using the SET Parser....Pages 308-314
Russian Learner Translator Corpus....Pages 315-323
Development of a Semantic and Syntactic Model of Natural Language by Means of Non-negative Matrix and Tensor Factorization....Pages 324-335
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Partial Measure of Semantic Relatedness Based on the Local Feature Selection....Pages 336-343
A Method for Parallel Non-negative Sparse Large Matrix Factorization....Pages 344-352
Using Graph Transformation Algorithms to Generate Natural Language Equivalents of Icons Expressing Medical Concepts....Pages 353-362
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GMM Classification of Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Identification of Original Speaker’s Voice....Pages 365-373
Phonation and Articulation Analysis of Spanish Vowels for Automatic Detection of Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 374-381
Speaker Identification by Combining Various Vocal Tract and Vocal Source Features....Pages 382-389
Inter-Annotator Agreement on Spontaneous Czech Language....Pages 390-397
Minimum Text Corpus Selection for Limited Domain Speech Synthesis....Pages 398-407
Tuning Limited Domain Speech Synthesis Using General Text-to-Speech System....Pages 408-415
Study on Phrases Used for Semi-automatic Text-Based Speakers Names Extraction in the Czech Radio Broadcasts News....Pages 416-423
Development of a Large Spontaneous Speech Database of Agglutinative Hungarian Language....Pages 424-431
Unit Selection Cost Function Exploration Using an A* Based Text-to-Speech System....Pages 432-440
LIUM and CRIM ASR System Combination for the REPERE Evaluation Campaign....Pages 441-448
Anti-Models:....Pages 449-456
Modelling F 0 Dynamics in Unit Selection Based Speech Synthesis....Pages 457-464
Audio-Video Speaker Diarization for Unsupervised Speaker and Face Model Creation....Pages 465-472
Improving a Long Audio Aligner through Phone- Relatedness Matrices for English, Spanish and Basque....Pages 473-480
Initial Experiments on Automatic Correction of Prosodic Annotation of Large Speech Corpora....Pages 481-488
Automatic Speech Recognition Texts Clustering....Pages 489-498
Impact of Irregular Pronunciation on Phonetic Segmentation of Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Czech....Pages 499-506
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Parametric Speech Coding Framework for Voice Conversion Based on Mixed Excitation Model....Pages 507-514
Captioning of Live TV Commentaries from the Olympic Games in Sochi: Some Interesting Insights....Pages 515-522
Language Resources and Evaluation for the Support of the Greek Language in the MARY Text-to-Speech....Pages 523-528
Intelligibility Assessment of the De-Identified Speech Obtained Using Phoneme Recognition and Speech Synthesis Systems....Pages 529-536
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Referring Expression Generation: Taking Speakers’ Preferences into Account....Pages 539-546
Visualization of Intelligibility Measured by Language-Independent Features....Pages 547-554
Using Suprasegmental Information in Recognized Speech Punctuation Completion....Pages 555-562
Two-Layer Semantic Entity Detection and Utterance Validation for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 563-570
Ontology Based Strategies for Supporting Communication within Social Networks....Pages 571-578
A Factored Discriminative Spoken Language Understanding for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 579-586
Alex: A Statistical Dialogue Systems Framework....Pages 587-594
Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley....Pages 595-602
Integration of an On-line Kaldi Speech Recogniser to the Alex Dialogue Systems Framework....Pages 603-610
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