Text, Speech and Dialogue

Invited Papers.- Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future?.- Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context.- ScanSoft's Technologies.- Text.- A Positional Linguistics-Based System for Word Alignment.- Handling Multi-word Expressions Without Explicit Linguistic Rules in an MT System.- The Szeged Corpus: A POS Tagged and Syntactically Annotated Hungarian Natural Language Corpus.- Item Summarization in Personalisation of News Delivery Systems.- IR-n System, a Passage Retrieval Architecture.- Event Clustering in the News Domain.- HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation.- Using Linguistic Resources to Construct Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts.- Slovak National Corpus.- Grammatical Heads Optimized for Parsing and Their Comparison with Linguistic Intuition.- How Dominant Is the Commonest Sense of a Word?.- POS Tagging of Hungarian with Combined Statistical and Rule-Based Methods.- Grammatical Relations Identification of Korean Parsed Texts Using Support Vector Machines.- Clustering Abstracts Instead of Full Texts.- Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-of-Speech Tagger.- Automatic Language Identification Using Phoneme and Automatically Derived Unit Strings.- Slovak Text-to-Speech Synthesis in ARTIC System.- Identifying Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models.- A Lexical Grammatical Implementation of Affect.- Towards Full Lexical Recognition.- Discriminative Models of SCFG and STSG.- Coupling Grammar and Knowledge Base: Range Concatenation Grammars and Description Logics.- Balancing Manual and Automatic Indexing for Retrieval of Paper Abstracts.- Unsupervised Learning of Rules for Morphological Disambiguation.- AmbiguousSupertagging Using a Feature Structure.- A Practical Word Sense Disambiguation System with High Performance for Korean.- Morphological Tagging of Russian Texts of the XIXth Century.- Speech.- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Estonian Using Morphemes and Classes.- A New Classifier for Speaker Verification Based on the Fractional Brownian Motion Process.- A Universal Human Machine Speech Interaction Language for Robust Speech Recognition Applications.- Embedded ViaVoice.- New Speech Enhancement Approach for Formant Evolution Detection.- Measurement of Complementarity of Recognition Systems.- Text-to-Speech for Slovak Language.- Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets.- A Decoding Algorithm for Speech Input Statistical Translation.- Aggregation Operators and Hypothesis Space Reductions in Speech Recognition.- Combinations of TRAP Based Systems.- Automatic Recognition and Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech.- Using Neural Networks to Model Prosody in Czech TTS System Epos.- Auditory Scene Analysis via Application of ICA in a Time-Frequency Domain.- Using the Lemmatization Technique for Phonetic Transcription in Text-to-Speech System.- Automatic Categorization of Voicemail Transcripts Using Stochastic Language Models.- Low Latency Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization.- Multimodal Phoneme Recognition of Meeting Data.- A New Multi-modal Database for Developing Speech Recognition Systems for an Assistive Technology Application.- Obtaining and Evaluating an Emotional Database for Prosody Modelling in Standard Basque.- Fully Automated Approach to Broadcast News Transcription in Czech Language.- A Computational Model of Intonation for Yorùbá Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Design and Analysis.- Dynamic UnitSelection for Very Low Bit Rate Coding at 500 bits/sec.- On the Background Model Construction for Speaker Verification Using GMM.- A Speaker Clustering Algorithm for Fast Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition.- Advanced Prosody Modelling.- Voice Stress Analysis.- Slovak Speech Database for Experiments and Application Building in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis.- Towards Lower Error Rates in Phoneme Recognition.- Examination of Pronunciation Variation from Hand-Labelled Corpora.- New Refinement Schemes for Voice Conversion.- Acoustic and Linguistic Information Based Chinese Prosodic Boundary Labelling.- F0 Prediction Model of Speech Synthesis Based on Template and Statistical Method.- An Architecture for Spoken Document Retrieval.- Evaluation of the Slovenian HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System.- Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments.- Parallel Root-Finding Method for LPC Analysis of Speech.- Automatic General Letter-to-Sound Rules Generation for German Text-to-Speech System.- Pitch Accent Prediction from ToBI Annotated Corpora Based on Bayesian Learning.- Processing of Logical Expressions for Visually Impaired Users.- Dialogue.- Durational Aspects of Turn-Taking in Spontaneous Face-to-Face and Telephone Dialogues.- A Speech Platform for a Bilingual City Information System.- Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology.- Building Voice Applications from Web Content.- Information-Providing Dialogue Management.- Realistic Face Animation for a Czech Talking Head.- Evaluation of a Web Based Information System for Blind and Visually Impaired Students: A Descriptive Study.- Multimodal Dialogue Management.- Looking at the Last Two Turns, I'd Say This Dialogue Is Doomed - Measuring Dialogue Success.- LogicalApproach to Natural Language Understanding in a Spoken Dialogue System.- Building a Dependency-Based Grammar for Parsing Informal Mathematical Discourse.