Text, Speech and Dialogue: 4th International Conference, TSD 2001 železná Ruda, Czech Republic, September 11–13, 2001, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2001, held in Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic in September 2001. The 59 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The book presents a wealth of state-of-the-art research and development results from the field of natural language processing with emphasis on text, speech, and spoken language. Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation....Pages 1-10 The Current Status of the Prague Dependency Treebank....Pages 11-20 Language Corpora: The Czech Case....Pages 21-30 A Hybrid Logic Formalization of Information Structure Sensitive Discourse Interpretation....Pages 31-38 he Possibilities of Automatic Detection/Correction of Errors in Tagged Corpora: A Pilot Study on a German Corpus....Pages 39-46 Grammatical Agreement and Automatic Morphological Disambiguation of Inflectional Languages....Pages 47-53 Modelling Semantic Association and Conceptual Inheritance for Semantic Analysis....Pages 54-61 Influence of Conditional Independence Assumption on Verb Subcategorization Detection....Pages 62-69 Morphological Guesser of Czech Words....Pages 70-75 Clustering Technique Based on Semantics for Definite Description Resolution....Pages 76-83 Pronoun Resolution in Spanish from Full Parsing....Pages 84-91 A Method of Accurate Robust Parsing of Czech....Pages 92-99 A New Czech Morphological Analyser ajka....Pages 100-107 Finding Semantically Related Words in Large Corpora....Pages 108-115 Syntactic-Based Methods for Measuring Word Similarity....Pages 116-125 The ATRACT Workbench: Automatic Term Recognition and Clustering for Terms....Pages 126-133 Augmented Auditory Representation of e-Texts for Text-to-Speech Systems....Pages 134-141 Enhancing the Valency Dictionary of Czech Verbs: Tectogrammatical Annotation....Pages 142-149 An Interactive Graph Based Legal Information Retrieval System....Pages 150-157 Text Segmentation into Paragraphs Based on Local Text Cohesion....Pages 158-166 Building a Digital Collection of Web-Pages: Access and Filtering Information with Textual Expansion....Pages 167-173 Three Approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation for Czech....Pages 174-179 Method for WordNet Enrichment Using WSD....Pages 180-186 Human Speech Perception: Some Lessons from Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 187-196 Speech Technology in Reality — Applications, Their Challenges and Solutions....Pages 197-200 Generative Phoneme-Threephone Model for ASR....Pages 201-207 Algebraic Models of Speech Segment Databases....Pages 208-213 Bayesian Noise Compensation of Time Trajectories of Spectral Coefficients for Robust Speech Recognition....Pages 214-221 The Influence of a Filter Shape in Telephone-Based Recognition Module Using PLP Parameterization....Pages 222-228 System for Speech Communication through Internet....Pages 229-236 Phoneme Based ASR System for Slovak SpeechDat Database....Pages 237-241 Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer for Slovenian Language....Pages 242-248 A Nonlinearized Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to Speech Impediment Therapy....Pages 249-257 Speech Recognition Issues for Dutch Spoken Document Retrieval....Pages 258-265 Multichannel Sound Acquisition with Stress Situations Determination for Medical Supervision in a Smart House....Pages 266-272 Two-Pass Recognition of Czech Speech Using Adaptive Vocabulary....Pages 273-277 Simulation of Speaking Styles with Adapted Prosody....Pages 278-284 The Utterance Type and the Size of the Intonation Unit....Pages 285-290 Estimation of Boundaries between Speech Units Using Bayesian Changepoint Detectors....Pages 291-298 Data Driven Design of Filter Bank for Speech Recognition....Pages 299-304 Minimization of Transition Noise and HNM Synthesis in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding....Pages 305-312 Chinese Radicals and Top Ontology in EuroWordNet....Pages 313-322 Towards a Dynamic Adjustment of the Language Weight....Pages 323-328 Speech Recognition Based on Feature Extraction with Variable Rate Frequency Sampling....Pages 329-333 The Phonectic SMS Reader....Pages 334-340 Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems Revisited....Pages 341-348 Determining User Interface Semantics Using Communicating Agents....Pages 349-356 Agent-Based Adaptive Interaction and Dialogue Management Architecture for Speech Applications....Pages 357-364 Dialogue for Web Search Utilizing Automatically Acquired Domain Knowledge....Pages 365-372 A Development Tool for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Its Evaluation....Pages 373-380 Using XML for Representing Domain Dependent Knowledge in Dialogos....Pages 381-387 Dialogue Generation of Program Source Codes....Pages 388-395 Semi-automatic Identification of Danish Discourse Deictics....Pages 396-402 Language Understanding Using Two-Level Stochastic Models with POS and Semantic Units....Pages 403-409 Shallow Processing and Cautious Incrementality in a Dialogue System Front End: Two Steps towards Robustness and Reactivity....Pages 410-417 Creation of a Corpus of Training Sentences Based on Automated Dialogue Analysis....Pages 418-426 Dialogue Manager in Dialogue System for Visually Impaired Programmers....Pages 427-434 Help System in Dialogue Grammar Based Programming Environment for Visually Impaired Programmers....Pages 435-442 Automatic Generation of Dialogue Interfaces for Web-Based Applications....Pages 443-449