Text, Speech and Dialogue: 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5246))

"This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2008, held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008." "The 79 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues; parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues; multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation; semantic networks and ontologies; semantic web; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; search in speech for IR and IE; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; emotions and personality modeling; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; and visual speech synthesis."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Future of Text-Meaning in Computational Linguistics....Pages 3-11 Deep Lexical Semantics....Pages 13-13 Toward the Ultimate ASR Language Model....Pages 15-15 Practical Prosody....Pages 17-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Sentiment Detection Using Lexically-Based Classifiers....Pages 21-28 First Steps in Building a Verb Valency Lexicon for Romanian....Pages 29-36 Hyponymy Patterns....Pages 37-44 Temporal Issues and Recognition Errors on the Capitalization of Speech Transcriptions....Pages 45-52 Web-Based Lemmatisation of Named Entities....Pages 53-60 Combining Multiple Resources to Build Reliable Wordnets....Pages 61-68 Active Tags for Semantic Analysis....Pages 69-76 Spoken Requests for Tourist Information....Pages 77-84 Affisix: Tool for Prefix Recognition....Pages 85-92 Variants and Homographs....Pages 93-100 An Empirical Bayesian Method for Detecting Out of Context Words....Pages 101-108 Semantic Classes in Czech Valency Lexicon....Pages 109-116 A Comparison of Language Models for Dialog Act Segmentation of Meeting Transcripts....Pages 117-124 New Methods for Pruning and Ordering of Syntax Parsing Trees....Pages 125-131 Web People Search with Domain Ranking....Pages 133-140 Disyllabic Chinese Word Extraction Based on Character Thesaurus and Semantic Constraints in Word-Formation....Pages 141-151 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation in Contexts for Russian Nouns Denoting Physical Objects....Pages 153-159 Where Do Parsing Errors Come From....Pages 161-168 Dealing with Small, Noisy and Imbalanced Data....Pages 169-176 Statistical Properties of Overlapping Ambiguities in Chinese Word Segmentation and a Strategy for Their Disambiguation....Pages 177-186 The Verb Argument Browser....Pages 187-192 Thinking in Objects....Pages 193-200 Improving Unsupervised WSD with a Dynamic Thesaurus....Pages 201-210 Normalization of Temporal Information in Estonian....Pages 211-218 Word Sense Disambiguation with Semantic Networks....Pages 219-226 A Pattern-Based Framework for Uncertainty Representation in Ontologies....Pages 227-234 MSD Recombination for Statistical Machine Translation into Highly-Inflected Languages....Pages 235-242 A Computational Framework to Integrate Different Semantic Resources....Pages 243-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Age Determination of Children in Preschool and Primary School Age with GMM-Based Supervectors and Support Vector Machines/Regression....Pages 253-260 Language Acquisition: The Emergence of Words from Multimodal Input....Pages 261-268 A Tagged Corpus-Based Study for Repeats and Self-repairs Detection in French Transcribed Speech....Pages 269-276 Study on Speaker Adaptation Methods in the Broadcast News Transcription Task....Pages 277-284 Spoken Document Retrieval Based on Approximated Sequence Alignment....Pages 285-292 Pitch Accents, Boundary Tones and Contours: Automatic Learning of Czech Intonation....Pages 293-301 On the Use of MLP Features for Broadcast News Transcription....Pages 303-310 Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition in Telephone Based Dialog System Using Limited Audio Resources....Pages 311-316 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems....Pages 317-324 Influence of Reading Errors on the Text-Based Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Voices....Pages 325-332 Czech Pitch Contour Modeling Using Linear Prediction....Pages 333-339 Energy Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 341-347 HMM-Based Speech Synthesis for the Greek Language....Pages 349-356 Advances in Acoustic Modeling for the Recognition of Czech....Pages 357-363 Talking Head as Life Blog....Pages 365-372 The Module of Morphological and Syntactic Analysis SMART....Pages 373-380 An Extension to the Sammon Mapping for the Robust Visualization of Speaker Dependencies....Pages 381-388 Analysis of Hypernasal Speech in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate....Pages 389-396 Syllable Based Language Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Polish....Pages 397-401 Accent and Channel Adaptation for Use in a Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System....Pages 403-410 Efficient Unit-Selection in Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 411-418 Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance....Pages 419-426 UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation....Pages 427-434 Perceptually Motivated Sub-band Decomposition for FDLP Audio Coding....Pages 435-442 Forced-Alignment and Edit-Distance Scoring for Vocabulary Tutoring Applications....Pages 443-450 Exploiting Contextual Information for Speech/Non-Speech Detection....Pages 451-459 Identification of Speakers from Their Hum....Pages 461-468 Reverse Correlation for Analyzing MLP Posterior Features in ASR....Pages 469-476 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Acquisition of Telephone Data from Radio Broadcasts with Applications to Language Recognition....Pages 477-483 Multilingual Weighted Codebooks for Non-native Speech Recognition....Pages 485-492 Prosodic Phrases and Semantic Accents in Speech Corpus for Czech TTS Synthesis....Pages 493-500 Making Speech Technologies Available in (Serviko) Romani Language....Pages 501-508 Emulating Temporal Receptive Fields of Higher Level Auditory Neurons for ASR....Pages 509-516 A Framework for Language-Independent Analysis and Prosodic Feature Annotation of Text Corpora....Pages 517-524 Quantification of Segmentation and F0 Errors and Their Effect on Emotion Recognition....Pages 525-534 Deep Syntactic Analysis and Rule Based Accentuation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis....Pages 535-542 Error Prediction-Based Semi-automatic Segmentation of Speech Databases....Pages 543-550 Front Matter....Pages 551-551 Cognitive and Emotional Interaction....Pages 553-560 Architecture Model and Tools for Perceptual Dialog Systems....Pages 561-568 The Generation of Emotional Expressions for a Text-Based Dialogue Agent....Pages 569-576 Intelligent Voice Navigation of Spreadsheets....Pages 577-584 A Semi-automatic Wizard of Oz Technique for Let’sFly Spoken Dialogue System....Pages 585-592 Developing a Dialogue System....Pages 593-600 Dialogue-Based Processing of Graphics and Graphical Ontologies....Pages 601-608 An Issue-Based Approach to Information Search Modelling: Analysis of a Human Dialog Corpus....Pages 609-616 Two-Level Fusion to Improve Emotion Classification in Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 617-624 Automatic Semantic Annotation of Polish Dialogue Corpus....Pages 625-632 Evaluation of the Slovak Spoken Dialogue System Based on ITU-T....Pages 633-640 Front Matter....Pages 551-551 Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS....Pages 641-648 Dialogue Based Text Editing....Pages 649-655 SSML for Arabic Language....Pages 657-664 Back Matter....Pages - The annual Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference (TSD), which originated in 1998, is now starting its second decade. So far almost 900 authors from 45 countries have contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognizedplatform for the presen- tion and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the ?eld of natural language processing. It has become an interdisciplinary forum, interweaving the themes of speech technology and language processing. The conference attracts - searchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe, but also from other parts of the world. Indeed, one of its goals has always been to bring together NLP researchers with different interests from different parts of the world and to promote their mutual co- eration. One of the ambitions of the conference is, as its title says, not only to deal with dialogue systems as such, but also to contribute to improving dialogue between researchers in the two areas of NLP, i. e. , between text and speech people. In our view, the TSD conference was successful in this respect in 2008 as well. This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th TSD conference, held in Brno, Czech Republic in September 2008. Following the review process, 79 papers were - ceptedoutof173submitted,anacceptancerateof45. 7%. Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2008, held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. The 79 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues; parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues; multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation; semantic networks and ontologies; semantic web; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; search in speech for IR and IE; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; emotions and personality modeling; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; and visual speech synthesis