This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2003, held in Cesk? Budejovice, Czech Republic in September 2003.
The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research and development results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken language ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as web information retrieval, the semantic web, algorithmic learning, and dialogue systems.
Author(s): Frederick Jelinek (auth.), Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2807 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 426
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Document Preparation and Text Processing; Language Translation and Linguistics
Front Matter....Pages -
Combating the Sparse Data Problem of Language Modelling....Pages 1-1
Toward Robust Speech Recognition and Understanding....Pages 2-11
A Pilot Study of English Selectional Preferences and Their Cross-Lingual Compatibility with Basque....Pages 12-19
Auto-tagging of Text Documents into XML....Pages 20-26
Stable Coordinated Pairs in Text Processing....Pages 27-34
Backoff DOP: Parameter Estimation by Backoff....Pages 35-42
Document Clustering into an Unknown Number of Clusters Using a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 43-49
Experiments in German Treebank Parsing....Pages 50-57
A Theoretical Basis of an Architecture of a Shell of a Reasonably Robust Syntactic Analyser....Pages 58-65
Si3Trenn and Si3Silb: Using the SiSiSi Word Analysis System for Pre-hyphenation and Syllable Counting in German Documents....Pages 66-73
Detecting Annotation Errors in a Corpus by Induction of Syntactic Patterns....Pages 74-81
The Computational Complexity of Rule-Based Part-of-Speech Tagging....Pages 82-89
Text Corpus with Errors....Pages 90-97
Identification of Multiwords as Preprocessing for Automatic Extraction of Lexical Similarities....Pages 98-105
Build a Large-Scale Syntactically Annotated Chinese Corpus....Pages 106-113
Computational Benefits of a Totally Lexicalist Grammar....Pages 114-119
Using a Czech Valency Lexicon for Annotation Support....Pages 120-125
On Concept Based Approach for Determining Semantic Index Terms....Pages 126-131
Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet....Pages 132-137
Optimising Attribute Selection in Conversational Search....Pages 138-145
Russian Corpus of the 19th Century....Pages 146-151
On Homogeneous Segments....Pages 152-157
Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition by Imitating Spreading Activation....Pages 158-164
The Incorporation of Confidence Measures to Language Understanding....Pages 165-172
Speech Recognition with μ -Law Companded Features on Reverberated Signals....Pages 173-180
Understanding Speech Based on a Bayesian Concept Extraction Method....Pages 181-188
A Data-Driven Framework for Intonational Phrase Break Prediction....Pages 189-197
Phoneme Recognition Using Temporal Patterns....Pages 198-205
Multi-array Multi-speaker Tracking....Pages 206-213
Towards Automatic Transcription of Spontaneous Czech Speech in the MALACH Project....Pages 214-219
TERSEO: Temporal Expression Resolution System Applied to Event Ordering....Pages 220-228
Non-native Pronunciation Variants of City Names as a Problem for Speech Technology Applications....Pages 229-236
Improving Speech Recognition by Utilizing Domain Knowledge and Confidence Measures....Pages 237-244
Comparison of Acoustic Adaptation Methods in Multilingual Speech Recognition Environment....Pages 245-250
A Comparison of Unit Selection Techniques in Limited Domain Speech Synthesis....Pages 251-256
Recognition of Speech with Non-random Attributes....Pages 257-262
Text-Independent Speaker Verification: The WCL-1 System....Pages 263-268
Local Time-Frequency Operators in TRAPs for Speech Recognition....Pages 269-274
Entropy and Dynamism Criteria for Speech and Audio Classification Applications....Pages 275-280
Speech Production: Phonetic Encoding of Real and Non-words....Pages 281-286
Experiments with Automatic Segmentation for Czech Speech Synthesis....Pages 287-294
All-Pole Modeling for Definition of Speech Features in Aurora3 DSR Task....Pages 295-300
Building of a Vocabulary for the Automatic Voice-Dictation System....Pages 301-308
Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization in a Phonological Awareness Teaching System....Pages 309-314
Hard-Testing the Multi-stream Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 315-320
Pitch-Synchronous Speech Signal Segmentation and Its Applications....Pages 321-326
Building LVCSR System for Transcription of Spontaneously Pronounced Russian Testimonies in the MALACH Project: Initial Steps and First Results....Pages 327-332
The Phase Substitutions in Czech Harmonic Concatenative Speech Synthesis....Pages 333-340
Combining Task Descriptions and Ontological Knowledge for Adaptive Dialogue....Pages 341-348
Large Text and Audio Data Alignment for Multimedia Applications....Pages 349-356
Building Multilingual Speech Corpora from Interpreted Spontaneous Dialogues on the Net....Pages 357-364
Multi-modal Voice Application Design in a Multi-client Environment....Pages 365-371
User Modeling and Plan Recognition under Conditions of Uncertainty....Pages 372-379
Bilingual Speech Recognition for a Weather Information Retrieval Dialogue System....Pages 380-387
On the Use of Prosodic Labelling in Corpus-Based Linguistic Studies of Spontaneous Speech....Pages 388-393
A Multi-modal Eliza Using Natural Language Processing and Emotion Recognition....Pages 394-399
The Wizard of Oz System for Weather Information Retrieval....Pages 400-405
Directives in Estonian Information Dialogues....Pages 406-411
SpeechDat-Like Estonian Database....Pages 412-417
Dialogue Experiment for Elderly People in Home Health Care System....Pages 418-423
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