Ebook: Text, Speech and Dialogue: 8th International Conference, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 12-15, 2005. Proceedings

TheInternationalConferenceTSD 2005,the8theventin theseriesonText,Speech,and Dialogue, which originated in 1998, presented state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the ?eld of natural language processing. It declared its intent to be an interdisciplinary forum, intertwining research in speech and language processing with its applications in everyday practice. We feel that the mixture of different approaches and applications offered a great opportunity to get acquainted with the current act- ities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from developing countries too. The ?nancial support of the ISCA (Inter- tional Speech Communication Association) enabled the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world. Thisyear’sconferencewaspartiallyorientedtowardsmulti-modalhuman-computer interaction (HCI), which can be seen as the most attractive topic of HCI at the present time. In this way, we are involved in a rich complex of communicative activity, facial expressions, hand gestures, direction of gaze, to name but the most obvious ones. The interpretationof each user utterancedependson the context,prosody,facial expressions (e. g. brows raised, brows and gaze both raised) and gestures. Hearers have to adapt to the speaker (e. g. maintainingthe theme of the conversation,smiling etc. ). Research into the interaction of these channels is however limited, often focusing on the interaction between a pair of channels. Six signi?cant scienti?c results achieved in this area in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and the Czech Republic were presented by keynote speakers in special plenary sessions. Further, approx.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2005, held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, in September 2005.

The 52 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as information retrieval, the semantic Web, algorithmic learning, classification and clustering, speaker recognition and verification, and dialogue management.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2005, held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, in September 2005.

The 52 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as information retrieval, the semantic Web, algorithmic learning, classification and clustering, speaker recognition and verification, and dialogue management.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Language Modeling Experiments with Random Forests....Pages 1-1
The Role of Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 2-8
Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?....Pages 9-22
On the Acoustic Components in Multimedia Presentations....Pages 23-32
Fusing Data Streams in Continuous Audio-Visual Speech Recognition....Pages 33-44
Speech Based User Interface for Users with Special Needs....Pages 45-55
Automatic Construction of a Valency Lexicon of Czech Adjectives....Pages 56-60
WebTranscribe – An Extensible Web-Based Speech Annotation Framework....Pages 61-68
Learning Syntactic Patterns Using Boosting and Other Classifier Combination Schemas....Pages 69-76
Text Classification with Tournament Methods....Pages 77-84
Anaphora in Czech: Large Data and Experiments with Automatic Anaphora Resolution....Pages 85-92
Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX: Recent Experiments with Frame Disambiguation....Pages 93-98
AARLISS – An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Long-Distance Inter Sentential Scenarios....Pages 99-106
Detection and Correction of Malapropisms in Spanish by Means of Internet Search....Pages 107-114
The Szeged Treebank....Pages 115-122
Automatic Lemmatizer Construction with Focus on OOV Words Lemmatization....Pages 123-131
Modeling Syntax of Free Word-Order Languages: Dependency Analysis by Reduction....Pages 132-139
Morphological Meanings in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0....Pages 140-147
Automatic Acquisition of a Slovak Lexicon from a Raw Corpus....Pages 148-155
Equilibrium Points of Single-Layered Neural Networks with Feedback and Applications in the Analysis of Text Documents....Pages 156-163
A Syntax and Semantics Linking Algorithm for the Chinese Language....Pages 164-170
Fuzzy Information Retrieval Indexed by Concept Identification....Pages 171-178
A Theme Allocation for a Sentence Based on Head Driven Patterns....Pages 179-186
A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Language Modeling with Multilayer Perceptrons and Unigrams....Pages 187-194
Supervised and Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Czech....Pages 195-202
Modelling Lexical Stress....Pages 203-210
The Sound Database Formation for the Allophone-Based Model for English Concatenative Speech Synthesis....Pages 211-218
Using Artificially Reverberated Training Data in Distant-Talking ASR....Pages 219-225
French–German Bilingual Acoustic Modeling for Embedded Voice Driven Applications....Pages 226-233
Sinusoidal Modeling Using Wavelet Packet Transform Applied to the Analysis and Synthesis of Speech Signals....Pages 234-240
Speaker Identification Based on Subtractive Clustering Algorithm with Estimating Number of Clusters....Pages 241-248
On Modelling Glottal Stop in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 249-256
Analysis of the Suitability of Common Corpora for Emotional Speech Modeling in Standard Basque....Pages 257-264
Discrete and Fluent Voice Dictation in Czech Language....Pages 265-272
Unit Selection for Speech Synthesis Based on Acoustic Criteria....Pages 273-280
Generative Model for Decoding a Phoneme Recognizer Output....Pages 281-287
Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 288-293
Phoneme Based Acoustics Keyword Spotting in Informal Continuous Speech....Pages 294-301
Explicit Duration Modelling in HMM/ANN Hybrids....Pages 302-309
Mapping the Speech Signal onto Electromagnetic Articulography Trajectories Using Support Vector Regression....Pages 310-317
Automatic Transcription of Numerals in Inflectional Languages....Pages 318-325
Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation....Pages 326-333
Compact Representation of Speech Using 2-D Cepstrum – An Application to Slovak Digits Recognition....Pages 334-341
An Alternative Way of Semantic Interpretation....Pages 342-347
Robust Rule-Based Method for Automatic Break Assignment in Russian Texts....Pages 348-355
Introduction of Improved UWB Speaker Verification System....Pages 356-363
Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP....Pages 364-370
The VoiceTRAN Speech-to-Speech Communicator....Pages 371-378
Cluster Analysis of Railway Directory Inquire Dialogs....Pages 379-384
A Framework for Rapid Multimodal Application Design....Pages 385-392
Language-Independent Communication Using Icons on a PDA....Pages 393-403
Software Tutors for Dialogue Systems....Pages 404-411
Questions in Estonian Information Dialogues: Form and Functions....Pages 412-419
Reducing Question Answering Input Data Using Named Entity Recognition....Pages 420-427
Annotating Structural Constraints in Discourse Corpora....Pages 428-434
A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering....Pages 435-442
Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification....Pages 443-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-458
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