Text, Speech and Dialogue: 5th International Conference, TSD 2002 Brno, Czech Republic, September 9–12, 2002 Proceedings

A Common Solution for Tokenization and Part-of-Speech Tagging....Pages 3-10
Rule Parser for Arabic Stemmer....Pages 11-18
Achieving an Almost Correct PoS-Tagged Corpus....Pages 19-26
Evaluation of a Japanese Sentence Compression Method Based on Phrase Significance and Inter-Phrase Dependency....Pages 27-32
User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module....Pages 33-40
The Role of WSD for Multilingual Natural Language Applications....Pages 41-48
Gibbsian Context-Free Grammar for Parsing....Pages 49-56
Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project....Pages 57-64
Using Salient Words to Perform Categorization of Web Sites....Pages 65-72
Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Hungarian Sign Language....Pages 73-80
Dependency Analyser Configurable by Measures....Pages 81-88
The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks....Pages 89-98
Filtering of Large Numbers of Unstructured Text Documents by the Developed Tool TEA....Pages 99-106
Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning....Pages 107-114
Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese....Pages 115-122
Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System....Pages 123-130
Word Sense vs. Word Domain Disambiguation: A Maximum Entropy Approach....Pages 131-137
Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 139-146
Valency Lexicon for Czech: From Verbs to Nouns....Pages 147-150
Term Clustering Using a Corpus-Based Similarity Measure....Pages 151-154
Word Sense Discrimination for Czech....Pages 155-158
Tools for Semi-automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns....Pages 159-162
Automatic Lexical Stress Assignment of Unknown Words for Highly Inflected Slovenian Language....Pages 165-172
German and Czech Speech Synthesis Using HMM-Based Speech Segment Database....Pages 173-180
Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures....Pages 181-188
Strategies for Developing a Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Czech Language....Pages 189-196
Comparative Study on Bigram Language Models for Spoken Czech Recognition....Pages 197-204
Integration of Speech Recognition and Automatic Lip-Reading....Pages 205-212
Utterance Verification Based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths....Pages 213-220
Rejection Technique Based on the Mumble Model....Pages 221-228
Efficient Noise Estimation and Its Application for Robust Speech Recognition....Pages 229-236
AlfaNum System for Speech Synthesis in Serbian Language....Pages 237-244
Speech Features Extraction Using Cone-Shaped Kernel Distribution....Pages 245-252
Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments....Pages 253-260
On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis....Pages 261-264
An Analysis of Limited Domains for Speech Synthesis....Pages 265-268
Advances in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Recognition and Synthesis Techniques....Pages 269-276
A Comparison of Different Approaches to Automatic Speech Segmentation....Pages 277-284
Keyword Spotting Using Support Vector Machines....Pages 285-292
Automatic Parameter Estimation for a Context-Independent Speech Segmentation Algorithm....Pages 293-300
Phoneme Lattice Based A * Search Algorithm for Speech Recognition....Pages 301-308
Heuristic and Statistical Methods for Speech/Non-speech Detector Design....Pages 309-316
An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue....Pages 317-320
Some Like It Gaussian. . .....Pages 321-324
Kernel Springy Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to a Phonological Awareness Teaching System....Pages 325-328
Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models....Pages 329-332
Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms....Pages 333-336
Speech Enhancement Using Mixtures of Gaussians for Speech and Noise....Pages 337-340
Fitting German into N-Gram Language Models....Pages 341-346
Audio Collections of Endangered Arctic Languages in the Russian Federation....Pages 347-353
Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments....Pages 357-364
Statistical Decision Making from Text and Dialogue Corpora for Effective Plan Recognition....Pages 365-372
Natural Language Guided Dialogues for Accessing theWeb....Pages 373-380
Evaluating a Probabilistic Dialogue Model for a Railway Information Task....Pages 381-388
Applying Dialogue Constraints to the Understanding Process in a Dialogue System....Pages 389-395
Evaluation of Prediction Methods Applied to an Inflected Language....Pages 397-403
Knowledge Based Speech Interfacing for Handhelds....Pages 405-412
Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems....Pages 413-420
Strategies to Overcome Problematic Input in a Spanish Dialogue System....Pages 421-428
Dialogue Systems and Planning....Pages 429-436
A Flexible Framework for Evaluation of New Algorithms for Dialogue Systems....Pages 437-440
From HTML to VoiceXML: A First Approach....Pages 441-444
Voice Chat with a Virtual Character: The Good Soldier Švejk Case Project....Pages 445-448
Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain....Pages 449-452
A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People....Pages 453-459
Enhancing Best Analysis Selection and Parser Comparison....Pages 461-466