Text, Speech and Dialogue: 7th International Conference, TSD 2004, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-11, 2004. Proceedings

Kenneth Church (auth.), Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala (eds.)3540230491, 9783540230496, 9783540301202

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004, under the auspices of the Masaryk University. This series of international conferences on text, speech and dialogue has come to c- stitute a major forum for presentation and discussion, not only of the latest developments in academic research in these ?elds, but also of practical and industrial applications. Uniquely, these conferences bring together researchers from a very wide area, both intellectually and geographically, including scientists working in speech technology, dialogue systems, text processing, lexicography, and other related ?elds. In recent years the conference has dev- oped into aprimary meetingplacefor speech and languagetechnologistsfrom manydifferent parts of the world and in particular it has enabled important and fruitful exchanges of ideas between Western and Eastern Europe. TSD 2004 offered a rich program of invited talks, tutorials, technical papers and poster sessions, aswellasworkshops andsystemdemonstrations. Atotalof78paperswereaccepted out of 127 submitted, contributed altogether by 190 authors from 26 countries. Our thanks as usual go to the Program Committee members and to the external reviewers for their conscientious and diligent assessment of submissions, and to the authors themselves for their high-quality contributions. We would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the members of the Organizing Committee for their tireless efforts in organizing the conference and ensuring its smooth running.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future?….Pages 3-13
Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context….Pages 15-17
ScanSoft’s Technologies….Pages 19-19
Front Matter….Pages 21-21
A Positional Linguistics-Based System for Word Alignment….Pages 23-30
Handling Multi-word Expressions Without Explicit Linguistic Rules in an MT System….Pages 31-40
The Szeged Corpus: A POS Tagged and Syntactically Annotated Hungarian Natural Language Corpus….Pages 41-47
Item Summarization in Personalisation of News Delivery Systems….Pages 49-56
IR-n System, a Passage Retrieval Architecture….Pages 57-64
Event Clustering in the News Domain….Pages 65-72
HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation….Pages 73-80
Using Linguistic Resources to Construct Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts….Pages 81-88
Slovak National Corpus….Pages 89-93
Grammatical Heads Optimized for Parsing and Their Comparison with Linguistic Intuition….Pages 95-101
How Dominant Is the Commonest Sense of a Word?….Pages 103-111
POS Tagging of Hungarian with Combined Statistical and Rule-Based Methods….Pages 113-120
Grammatical Relations Identification of Korean Parsed Texts Using Support Vector Machines….Pages 121-128
Clustering Abstracts Instead of Full Texts….Pages 129-135
Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-of-Speech Tagger….Pages 137-145
Automatic Language Identification Using Phoneme and Automatically Derived Unit Strings….Pages 147-153
Slovak Text-to-Speech Synthesis in ARTIC System….Pages 155-162
Front Matter….Pages 21-21
Identifying Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models….Pages 163-170
A Lexical Grammatical Implementation of Affect….Pages 171-177
Towards Full Lexical Recognition….Pages 179-186
Discriminative Models of SCFG and STSG….Pages 187-194
Coupling Grammar and Knowledge Base: Range Concatenation Grammars and Description Logics….Pages 195-202
Balancing Manual and Automatic Indexing for Retrieval of Paper Abstracts….Pages 203-210
Unsupervised Learning of Rules for Morphological Disambiguation….Pages 211-216
Ambiguous Supertagging Using a Feature Structure….Pages 217-224
A Practical Word Sense Disambiguation System with High Performance for Korean….Pages 225-234
Morphological Tagging of Russian Texts of the XIX th Century….Pages 235-242
Front Matter….Pages 243-243
Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Estonian Using Morphemes and Classes….Pages 245-252
A New Classifier for Speaker Verification Based on the Fractional Brownian Motion Process….Pages 253-259
A Universal Human Machine Speech Interaction Language for Robust Speech Recognition Applications….Pages 261-267
Embedded ViaVoice….Pages 269-274
New Speech Enhancement Approach for Formant Evolution Detection….Pages 275-282
Measurement of Complementarity of Recognition Systems….Pages 283-290
Text-to-Speech for Slovak Language….Pages 291-298
Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets….Pages 299-306
A Decoding Algorithm for Speech Input Statistical Translation….Pages 307-314
Aggregation Operators and Hypothesis Space Reductions in Speech Recognition….Pages 315-322
Front Matter….Pages 243-243
Combinations of TRAP Based Systems….Pages 323-330
Automatic Recognition and Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech….Pages 331-338
Using Neural Networks to Model Prosody in Czech TTS System Epos….Pages 339-345
Auditory Scene Analysis via Application of ICA in a Time-Frequency Domain….Pages 347-353
Using the Lemmatization Technique for Phonetic Transcription in Text-to-Speech System….Pages 355-361
Automatic Categorization of Voicemail Transcripts Using Stochastic Language Models….Pages 363-370
Low Latency Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization….Pages 371-378
Multimodal Phoneme Recognition of Meeting Data….Pages 379-384
A New Multi-modal Database for Developing Speech Recognition Systems for an Assistive Technology Application….Pages 385-392
Obtaining and Evaluating an Emotional Database for Prosody Modelling in Standard Basque….Pages 393-400
Fully Automated Approach to Broadcast News Transcription in Czech Language….Pages 401-408
A Computational Model of Intonation for Yorùbá Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Design and Analysis….Pages 409-416
Dynamic Unit Selection for Very Low Bit Rate Coding at 500 bits/sec….Pages 417-423
On the Background Model Construction for Speaker Verification Using GMM….Pages 425-432
A Speaker Clustering Algorithm for Fast Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition….Pages 433-440
Advanced Prosody Modelling….Pages 441-447
Voice Stress Analysis….Pages 449-456
Slovak Speech Database for Experiments and Application Building in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis….Pages 457-464
Towards Lower Error Rates in Phoneme Recognition….Pages 465-472
Examination of Pronunciation Variation from Hand-Labelled Corpora….Pages 473-480
Front Matter….Pages 243-243
New Refinement Schemes for Voice Conversion….Pages 481-488
Acoustic and Linguistic Information Based Chinese Prosodic Boundary Labelling….Pages 489-496
F0 Prediction Model of Speech Synthesis Based on Template and Statistical Method….Pages 497-504
An Architecture for Spoken Document Retrieval….Pages 505-511
Evaluation of the Slovenian HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System….Pages 513-520
Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments….Pages 521-528
Parallel Root-Finding Method for LPC Analysis of Speech….Pages 529-536
Automatic General Letter-to-Sound Rules Generation for German Text-to-Speech System….Pages 537-543
Pitch Accent Prediction from ToBI Annotated Corpora Based on Bayesian Learning….Pages 545-552
Processing of Logical Expressions for Visually Impaired Users….Pages 553-560
Front Matter….Pages 561-561
Durational Aspects of Turn-Taking in Spontaneous Face-to-Face and Telephone Dialogues….Pages 563-570
A Speech Platform for a Bilingual City Information System….Pages 571-578
Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology….Pages 579-586
Building Voice Applications from Web Content….Pages 587-594
Information-Providing Dialogue Management….Pages 595-602
Realistic Face Animation for a Czech Talking Head….Pages 603-610
Evaluation of a Web Based Information System for Blind and Visually Impaired Students: A Descriptive Study….Pages 611-619
Multimodal Dialogue Management….Pages 621-628
Looking at the Last Two Turns, I’d Say This Dialogue Is Doomed – Measuring Dialogue Success….Pages 629-636
Logical Approach to Natural Language Understanding in a Spoken Dialogue System….Pages 637-644
Front Matter….Pages 561-561
Building a Dependency-Based Grammar for Parsing Informal Mathematical Discourse….Pages 645-652
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