Volume 1

Speech Production Control (Special Session)

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  Johan Liljencrants, Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg: Subglottal pressure and prosody in Swedish. 1-4
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  Kiyoshi Honda, Shinobu Masaki, Yasuhiro Shimada: Observation of laryngeal control for voicing and pitch change by magnetic resonance imaging technique. 5-8
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  Hiroya Fujisaki, Ryou Tomana, Shuichi Narusawa, Sumio Ohno, Changfu Wang: Physiological mechanisms for fundamental frequency control in standard Chinese. 9-12
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  René Carré: On vocal tract asymmetry/symmetry. 13-16
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  Olov Engwall: Are static MRI measurements representative of dynamic speech? results from a comparative study using MRI, EPG and EMA. 17-20
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  Shinan Lu, Lin He, Yufang Yang, Jianfen Cao: Prosodic control in Chinese TTS system. 21-24
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  Yuqing Gao, Raimo Bakis, Jing Huang, Bing Xiang: Multistage coarticulation model combining articulatory, formant and cepstral features. 25-28
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  Osamu Fujimura: Rhythmic organization and signal characteristics of speech. 29-35
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  Sven E. G. Öhman: Oral culture in the 21st century: the case of speech processing. 36-41
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  Jintao Jiang, Abeer Alwan, Lynne E. Bernstein, Patricia A. Keating, Edward T. Auer: On the correlation between facial movements, tongue movements and speech acoustics. 42-45

Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, and Psycholinguistics 1, 2

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  Sandra P. Whiteside, E. Rixon: Coarticulation patterns in identical twins: an acoustic case study. 46-49
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  Philip Hanna, Darryl Stewart, Ji Ming, F. Jack Smith: Improved lexicon formation through removal of co-articulation and acoustic recognition errors. 50-53
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  Anders Lindström, Anna Kasaty: A two-level approach to the handling of foreign items in Swedish speech technology applications. 54-57
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  Yasuharu Den, Herbert H. Clark: Word repetitions in Japanese spontaneous speech. 58-61
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  Allard Jongman, Corinne B. Moore: The role of language experience in speaker and rate normalization processes. 62-65
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  Achim F. Müller, Jianhua Tao, Rüdiger Hoffmann: Data-driven importance analysis of linguistic and phonetic information. 66-69
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  Hiroya Fujisaki, Katsuhiko Shirai, Shuji Doshita, Seiichi Nakagawa, Keikichi Hirose, Shuichi Itahashi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Sumio Ohno, Hideaki Kikuchi, Kenji Abe, Shinya Kiriyama: Overview of an intelligent system for information retrieval based on human-machine dialogue through spoken language. 70-73
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  Li-chiung Yang: The expression and recognition of emotions through prosody. 74-77
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  Marc Swerts, Miki Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Katagiri: Prosodic marking of information status in tokyo Japanese. 78-81
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  Britta Wrede, Gernot A. Fink, Gerhard Sagerer: Influence of duration on static and dynamic properties of German vowels in spontaneous speech. 82-85
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  Bo Zheng, Bei Wang, Yufang Yang, Shinan Lu, Jianfen Cao: The regular accent in Chinese sentences. 86-89
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  Odile Mella, Dominique Fohr, Laurent Martin, Andreas J. Carlen: A tool for the synchronization of speech and mouth shapes: LIPS. 90-93
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  Mohamed-Zakaria Kurdi: Semantic tree unification grammar: a new formalism for spoken language processing. 94-97

Discourse and Dialogue 1, 2

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  Akira Kurematsu, Yousuke Shionoya: Identification of utterance intention in Japanese spontaneous spoken dialogue by use of prosody and keyword information. 98-101
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  Sherif Abdou, Michael S. Scordilis: Improved speech understanding using dialogue expectation in sentence parsing. 102-105
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  Helen M. Meng, Carmen Wai, Roberto Pieraccini: The use of belief networks for mixed-initiative dialog modeling. 106-109
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  Michael F. McTear, Susan Allen, Laura Clatworthy, Noelle Ellison, Colin Lavelle, Helen McCaffery: Integrating flexibility into a structured dialogue model: some design considerations. 110-113
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  Yasuhisa Niimi, Tomoki Oku, Takuya Nishimoto, Masahiro Araki: A task-independent dialogue controller based on the extended frame-driven method. 114-117
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  Wei Xu, Alex Rudnicky: Language modeling for dialog system. 118-121
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  Kallirroi Georgila, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis: Building stochastic language model networks based on simultaneous word/phrase clustering. 122-125
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  Li-chiung Yang, Richard Esposito: Prosody and topic structuring in spoken dialogue. 126-129
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  Stéphane H. Maes: Elements of conversational computing - a paradigm shift. 130-133
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  Ludek Müller, Filip Jurcícek, Lubos Smídl: Rejection and key-phrase spottin techniques using a mumble model in a czech telephone dialog system. 134-137
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  Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz, Eric K. Ringger: Continuous listening for unconstrained spoken dialog. 138-141
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  Stefanie Shriver, Alan W. Black, Ronald Rosenfeld: Audio signals in speech interfaces. 142-145
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  Péter Pál Boda: Visualisation of spoken dialogues. 146-149
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  Mary Zajicek: The construction of speech output to support elderly visually impaired users starting to use the internet. 150-153

Recognition and Understanding of Spoken Language 1, 2

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  Kazuyuki Takagi, Rei Oguro, Kazuhiko Ozeki: Effects of word string language models on noisy broadcast news speech recognition. 154-157
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  Xiaoqiang Luo, Martin Franz: Semantic tokenization of verbalized numbers in language modeling. 158-161
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  Kazuomi Kato, Hiroaki Nanjo, Tatsuya Kawahara: Automatic transcription of lecture speech using topic-independent language modeling. 162-165
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  Rocio Guillén, Randal Erman: Extending grammars based on similar-word recognition. 166-169
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  Edward W. D. Whittaker, Philip C. Woodland: Particle-based language modelling. 170-173
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  Wing Nin Choi, Yiu Wing Wong, Tan Lee, P. C. Ching: Lexical tree decoding with a class-based language model for Chinese speech recognition. 174-177
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  Karthik Visweswariah, Harry Printz, Michael Picheny: Impact of bucketing on performance of linearly interpolated language models. 178-181
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  Shuwu Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Sagisaka: An embedded knowledge integration for hybrid language modelling. 182-195
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  Lucian Galescu, James F. Allen: Hierarchical statistical language models: experiments on in-domain adaptation. 186-189
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  Hirofumi Yamamoto, Kouichi Tanigaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka: A language model for conversational speech recognition using information designed for speech translation. 190-193
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  Bob Carpenter, Sol Lerner, Roberto Pieraccini: Optimizing BNF grammars through source transformations. 194-197
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  Jian Wu, Fang Zheng: On enhancing katz-smoothing based back-off language model. 198-201
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  Wei Xu, Alex Rudnicky: Can artificial neural networks learn language models? 202-205
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  Guergana Savova, Michael Schonwetter, Sergey V. Pakhomov: Improving language model perplexity and recognition accuracy for medical dictations via within-domain interpolation with literal and semi-literal corpora. 206-209
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  Karl Weilhammer, Günther Ruske: Placing structuring elements in a word sequence for generating new statistical language models. 210-213
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  Yannick Estève, Frédéric Béchet, Renato de Mori: Dynamic selection of language models in a dialogue system. 214-217
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  Magne Hallstein Johnsen, Trym Holter, Torbjørn Svendsen, Erik Harborg: Stochastic modeling of semantic content for use IN a spoken dialogue system. 218-221
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  Tomio Takara, Eiji Nagaki: Spoken word recognition using the artificial evolution of a set of vocabulary. 222-225
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  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek: Deeplistener: harnessing expected utility to guide clarification dialog in spoken language systems. 226-229
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  Yunbin Deng, Bo Xu, Taiyi Huang: Chinese spoken language understanding across domain. 230-233
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  Sven C. Martin, Andreas Kellner, Thomas Portele: Interpolation of stochastic grammar and word bigram models in natural language understanding. 234-237
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  Satoru Kogure, Seiichi Nakagawa: A portable development tool for spoken dialogue systems. 238-241
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  Yi-Chung Lin, Huei-Ming Wang: Error-tolerant language understanding for spoken dialogue systems. 242-245
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  Akinori Ito, Chiori Hori, Masaharu Katoh, Masaki Kohda: Language modeling by stochastic dependency grammar for Japanese speech recognition. 246-249
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  Ruiqiang Zhang, Ezra Black, Andrew M. Finch, Yoshinori Sagisaka: A tagger-aided language model with a stack decoder. 250-253
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  Julia Hirschberg, Diane J. Litman, Marc Swerts: Generalizing prosodic prediction of speech recognition errors. 254-257
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  Jerome R. Bellegarda, Kim E. A. Silverman: Toward unconstrained command and control: data-driven semantic inference. 258-261
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  Ken Hanazawa, Shinsuke Sakai: Continuous speech recognition with parse filtering. 262-265
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  Martine Adda-Decker, Gilles Adda, Lori Lamel: Investigating text normalization and pronunciation variants for German broadcast transcription. 266-269
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  Mirjam Wester, Eric Fosler-Lussier: A comparison of data-derived and knowledge-based modeling of pronunciation variation. 270-273
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  Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini: A bottom-up method for obtaining information about pronunciation variation. 274-277
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  Jiyong Zhang, Fang Zheng, Mingxing Xu, Ditang Fang: Semi-continuous segmental probability modeling for continuous speech recognition. 278-281
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  Christos A. Antoniou, T. Jeff Reynolds: Acoustic modelling using modular/ensemble combinations of heterogeneous neural networks. 282-285
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  Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Shankar Kumar, Kuansan Wang: Unifying HMM and phone-pair segment models. 286-289
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  Ming Li, Tiecheng Yu: Multi-group mixture weight HMM. 290-292
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  Tetsuro Kitazoe, Tomoyuki Ichiki, Makoto Funamori: Application of pattern recognition neural network model to hearing system for continuous speech. 293-296
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  Nathan Smith, Mahesan Niranjan: Data-dependent kernels in svm classification of speech patterns. 297-300
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  S. Umesh, Richard C. Rose, S. Parthasarathy: Exploiting frequency-scaling invariance properties of the scale transform for automatic speech recognition. 301-304
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  Masahiro Fujimoto, Jun Ogata, Yasuo Ariki: Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition under real environments using adaptive sub-band spectral subtraction. 305-308
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  Liang Gu, Kenneth Rose: Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition. 309-312
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  Yik-Cheung Tam, Brian Kan-Wing Mak: Optimization of sub-band weights using simulated noisy speech in multi-band speech recognition. 313-316
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  Robert Faltlhauser, Thilo Pfau, Günther Ruske: On the use of speaking rate as a generalized feature to improve decision trees. 317-320
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  Jun Toyama, Masaru Shimbo: Syllable recognition using glides based on a non-linear transformation. 321-324
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  M. Kemal Sönmez, Madelaine Plauché, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco: Consonant discrimination in elicited and spontaneous speech: a case for signal-adaptive front ends in ASR. 325-328
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  Khalid Daoudi, Dominique Fohr, Christophe Antoine: A new approach for multi-band speech recognition based on probabilistic graphical models. 329-332
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  Hervé Glotin, Frédéric Berthommier: Test of several external posterior weighting functions for multiband full combination ASR. 333-336
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  Kenji Okada, Takayuki Arai, Noburu Kanederu, Yasunori Momomura, Yuji Murahara: Using the modulation wavelet transform for feature extraction in automatic speech recognition. 337-340
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  Qifeng Zhu, Abeer Alwan: AM-demodulation of speech spectra and its application io noise robust speech recognition. 341-344
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  Astrid Hagen, Andrew C. Morris: Comparison of HMM experts with MLP experts in the full combination multi-band approach to robust ASR. 345-348
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  Astrid Hagen, Hervé Bourlard: Using multiple time scales in the framework of multi-stream speech recognition. 349-352
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  Hua Yu, Alex Waibel: Streamlining the front end of a speech recognizer. 353-356
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  Bhiksha Raj, Michael L. Seltzer, Richard M. Stern: Reconstruction of damaged spectrographic features for robust speech recognition. 357-360
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  Janienke Sturm, Hans Kamperman, Lou Boves, Els den Os: Impact of speaking style and speaking task on acoustic models. 361-364
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  Shubha Kadambe, Ron Burns: Encoded speech recognition accuracy improvement in adverse environments by enhancing formant spectral bands. 365-368
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  Jon Barker, Ljubomir Josifovski, Martin Cooke, Phil D. Green: Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust automatic speech recognition. 373-376
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  Jian Liu, Tiecheng Yu: New tone recognition methods for Chinese continuous speech. 377-380
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  Bo Zhang, Gang Peng, William S.-Y. Wang: Reliable bands guided similarity measure for noise-robust speech recognition. 381-384
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  Tsuneo Nitta, Masashi Takigawa, Takashi Fukuda: A novel feature extraction using multiple acoustic feature planes for HMM-based speech recognition. 385-388
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  Fang Zheng, Guoliang Zhang: Integrating the energy information into MFCC. 389-392
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  Omar Farooq, Sekharjit Datta: Speaker independent phoneme recognition by MLP using wavelet features. 393-396
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  Laurent Couvreur, Christophe Couvreur, Christophe Ris: A corpus-based approach for robust ASR in reverberant environments. 397-400
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  Issam Bazzi, James R. Glass: Modeling out-of-vocabulary words for robust speech recognition. 401-404
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  Bojana Gajic, Richard C. Rose: Hidden Markov model environmental compensation for automatic speech recognition on hand-held mobile devices. 405-408
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  Andrew C. Morris, Ljubomir Josifovski, Hervé Bourlard, Martin Cooke, Phil D. Green: A neural network for classification with incomplete data: application to robust ASR. 409-412
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  Shigeki Matsuda, Mitsuru Nakai, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Shigeki Sagayama: Feature-dependent allophone clustering. 413-416
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  Qian Yang, Jean-Pierre Martens: Data-driven lexical modeling of pronunciation variations for ASR. 417-420
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  Dat Tran, Michael Wagner: Fuzzy entropy hidden Markov models for speech recognition. 421-424
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  Carl Quillen: Adjacent node continuous-state HMM's. 425-428
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  Janienke Sturm, Eric Sanders: Modelling phonetic context using head-body-tail models for connected digit recognition. 429-432
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  Issam Bazzi, Dina Katabi: Using support vector machines for spoken digit recognition. 433-436
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  Jiping Sun, Xing Jing, Li Deng: Data-driven model construction for continuous speech recognition using overlapping articulatory features. 437-440
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  Marcel Vasilache: Speech recognition using HMMs with quantized parameters. 441-444
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  Yingyong Qi, Jack Xin: A perception and PDE based nonlinear transformation for processing spoken words. 445-448
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  Reinhard Blasig, Georg Rose, Carsten Meyer: Training of isolated word recognizers with continuous speech. 449-452

Production of Spoken Language

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  Shu-Chuan Tseng: Repair patterns in spontaneous Chinese dialogs: morphemes, words, and phrases. 453-456
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  Jianwu Dang, Kiyoshi Honda: Improvement of a physiological articulatory model for synthesis of vowel sequences. 457-460
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  Kunitoshi Motoki, Xavier Pelorson, Pierre Badin, Hiroki Matsuzaki: Computation of 3-d vocal tract acoustics based on mode-matching technique. 461-464
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  Lucie Ménard, Louis-Jean Boë: Exploring vowel production strategies from infant to adult by means of articulatory inversion of formant data. 465-468
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  Gavin Smith, Tony Robinson: Segmentation of a speech waveform according to glottal open and closed phases using an autoregressive-HMM. 469-472
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  Rosemary Orr, Bert Cranen, Felix de Jong, Lou Boves: Comparison of inverse filtering of the flow signal and microphone signal. 473-476
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  Markus Iseli, Abeer Alwan: Inter- and intra-speaker variability of glottal flow derivative using the LF model. 477-480

Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, and Psycholinguistics 3

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  Philippe Blache, Daniel Hirst: Multi-level annotation for spoken language corpora. 481-484
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  Aijun Li, Fang Zheng, William Byrne, Pascale Fung, Terri Kamm, Yi Liu, Zhanjiang Song, Umar Ruhi, Veera Venkataramani, Xiaoxia Chen: CASS: a phonetically transcribed corpus of mandarin spontaneous speech. 485-488
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  Kazuhide Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita: Multiple decision-tree strategy for input-error robustness: a simulation of tree combinations. 489-492
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  Zheng Chen, Kai-Fu Lee, Mingjing Li: Discriminative training on language model. 493-496
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  Jianfeng Gao, Mingjing Li, Kai-Fu Lee: N-gram distribution based language model adaptation. 497-500
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  Francisco Palou, P. Bravetti, Ossama Emam, Volker Fischer, Eric Janke: Towards a common phone alphabet for multilingual speech recognition. 501-504
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  Robert Belvin, Ron Burns, Cheryl Hein: What²s next: a case study in the multidimensionality of a dialog system. 504-507

Dialogue Systems and Speech Input

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  Masanobu Higashida, Kumiko Ohmori: A new dialogue control method based on human listening process to construct an interface for ascertaining a user²s inputs. 508-511
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  XianFang Wang, LiMin Du: Spoken language understanding in a Chinese spoken dialogue system engine. 512-515
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  Satya Dharanipragada, Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu: Statistical methods for topic segmentation. 516-519
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  Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Lin-Shan Lee: Retrieval of mandarin broadcast news using spoken queries. 520-523
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  John H. L. Hansen, Jay P. Plucienkowski, Stephen Gallant, Bryan L. Pellom, Wayne Ward: "CU-move": robust speech processing for in-vehicle speech systems. 524-527
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  Ji-Hwan Kim, Philip C. Woodland: A rule-based named entity recognition system for speech input. 528-531
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  Mohammad Reza Sadigh, Hamid Sheikhzadeh, M. R. Jahangir, Arash Farzan: A rule-based approach to farsi language text-to-phoneme conversion. 532-535
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  Allard Jongman, Yue Wang, Joan Sereno: Acoustic and perceptual properties of English fricatives. 536-539
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  Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Nanette Veilleux: The special phonological characteristics of monosyllabic function words in English. 540-543
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  Karmele López de Ipiña, Inés Torres, Lourdes Oñederra, Amparo Varona, Luis Javier Rodríguez: Selection of sublexical units for continuous speech recognition of basque. 544-547
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  Madelaine Plauché, M. Kemal Sönmez: Machine learning techniques for the identification of cues for stop place. 548-551
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  Christina Widera: Strategies of vowel reduction - a speaker-dependent phenomenon. 552-555
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  Michelle A. Fox: Syllable-final /s/ lenition in the LDC's callhome Spanish corpus. 556-559
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  Akira Kurematsu, Takeaki Nakazaki: Meaning extraction based on frame representation for Japanese spoken dialogue. 560-563
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  Johanneke Caspers: Pitch accents, boundary tones and turn-taking in dutch map task dialogues. 565-568
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  Yoichi Yamashita, Michiyo Murai: An annotation scheme of spoken dialogues with topic break indexes. 569-572
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  Nanette Veilleux: Application of the centering framework in spontaneous dialogues. 573-576
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  Hiroki Mori, Hideki Kasuya: Automatic lexicon generation and dialogue modeling for spontaneous speech. 577-580
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  Maria Wolters, Hansjörg Mixdorff: Evaluating radio news intonation - autosegmental versus superpositional modelling. 581-584
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  Daniele Falavigna, Roberto Gretter, Marco Orlandi: A mixed language model for a dialogue system over ihe telephone. 585-588
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  Linda Bell, Joakim Gustafson: Positive and negative user feedback in a spoken dialogue corpus. 589-592
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  Anne Cutler, Mariëtte Koster: Stress and lexical activation in dutch. 593-596
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  Safa Nasser Eldin, Hanna Abdel Nour, Rajouani Abdenbi: Automatic modeling and implementation of intonation for the arabic language in TTS systems. 597-600
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  Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde: Modeling word durations. 601-604
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  Jennifer J. Venditti, Jan P. H. van Santen: Japanese intonation synthesis using superposition and linear alignment models. 605-608
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  Toshimitsu Minowa, Ryo Mochizuki, Hirofumi Nishimura: Improving the naturalness of synthetic speech by utilizing the prosody of natural speech. 609-612
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  Sin-Horng Chen, Chen-Chung Ho: A hybrid statistical/RNN approach to prosody synthesis for taiwanese TTS. 613-616
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  Nobuaki Minematsu, Yukiko Fujisawa, Seiichi Nakagawa: Performance comparison among HMM, DTW, and human abilities in terms of identifying stress patterns of word utterances. 617-620
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  Juan Manuel Montero, Ricardo de Córdoba, José A. Vallejo, Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola, Emilia Enríquez, José Manuel Pardo: Restricted-domain female-voice synthesis in Spanish: from database design to ANN prosodic modeling. 621-624
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  Xavier Fernández Salgado, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga: A hierarchical intonation model for synthesising F0 contours in galician language. 625-628
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  Ted H. Applebaum, Nick Kibre, Steve Pearson: Features for F0 contour prediction. 629-632
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  Zhenglai Gu, Hiroki Mori, Hideki Kasuya: Prosodic variation of focused syllables of disyllabic word in Mandarin Chinese. 633-636
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  Stephen M. Chu, Thomas S. Huang: Automatic head gesture learning and synthesis from prosodic cues. 637-640
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  Martti Vainio, Toomas Altosaar, Stefan Werner: Measuring the importance of morphological information for finnish speech synthesis. 641-644
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  Oliver Jokisch, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hans Kruschke, Ulrich Kordon: Learning the parameters of quantitative prosody models. 645-648
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  Shuichi Narusawa, Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno: A method for automatic extraction of parameters of the fundamental frequency contour. 649-652
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  Tetsuro Kitazoe, Sung-Ill Kim, Yasunari Yoshitomi, Tatsuhiko Ikeda: Recognition of emotional states using voice, face image and thermal image of face. 653-656
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  Keiko Watanuki, Susumu Seki, Hideo Miyoshi: Turn taking and multimodal information in two-people dialog. 657-660
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  Hamid Reza Abutalebi, Mahmood Bijankhan: Implementation of a text-to-speech system for farsi language. 661-664
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  Richard Huber, Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Elmar Nöth, Volker Warnke, Heinrich Niemann: Recognition of emotion in a realistic dialogue scenario. 665-668
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  Johanna Barry, Peter J. Blamey, Kathy Lee, Dilys Cheung: Differentiation in tone production in cantonese-speaking hearing-impaired children. 669-672
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  Martine van Zundert, Jacques M. B. Terken: Learning effects for phonetic properties of synthetic speech. 673-676
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  Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Le Wang, Maxine Eskenazi: An empirical study of the effectiveness of speech-recognition-based pronunciation training. 677-680
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  Olivier Deroo, Christophe Ris, Sofie Gielen, Johan Vanparys: Automatic detection of mispronounced phonemes for language learning tools. 681-684
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  Horacio Meza Escalona, Ingrid Kirschning, Ofelia Cervantes Villagómez: Estimation of duration models for phonemes in m exican speech synthesis. 685-688
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  Xiaoru Wu, Ren-Hua Wang, Guoping Hu: Special text processing based external descriptor rule. 689-692
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  Zhenli Yu, Shangcui Zeng: Articulatory synthesis using a vocal-tract model of variable length. 693-696
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  Philippe Boula de Mareil: Linguistic-prosodic processing for text-to-speech synthesis in italian. 697-700
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  Matthias Eichner, Matthias Wolff, Rüdiger Hoffmann: A unified approach for speech synthesis and speech recognition using stochastic Markov graphs. 701-704
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  Andrew P. Breen, James Salter: Using F0 within a phonologically motivated method of unit selection. 705-708
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  Christophe Blouin, Paul C. Bagshaw: Analysis of the degradation of French vowels induced by the TD-PSOLA algorithm, in text-to-speech context. 709-712
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  Artur Janicki: Automatic construction of acoustic inventory for the concatenative speech synthesis for polish. 713-716
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  Diane Hirschfeld, Matthias Wolff: Universal and multilingual unit selection for DRESS. 717-720
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  Davis Pan, Brian Heng, Shiufun Cheung, Ed Chang: Improving speech synthesis for high intelligibility under adverse conditions. 721-724
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  Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose: Development of a formant-based analysis-synthesis system and generation of high quality liquid sounds of Japanese. 725-728
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  Oliver Jokisch, Matthias Eichner: Synthesizing and evaluating an artificial language: klingon. 729-732
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  Craig Olinsky, Alan W. Black: Non-standard word and homograph resolution for asian language text analysis. 733-736
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  Zhang Sen, Katsuhiko Shirai: Re-estimation of LPC coefficients in the sense of l&inf; criterion. 737-740
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  Sung-Kyo Jung, Yong-Soo Choi, Young-Cheol Park, Dae Hee Youn: An efficient codebook search algorithm for EVRC. 741-744
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  Jong-Kuk Kim, Jeong-Jin Kim, Myung-Jin Bae: The reduction of the search time by the pre-determination of the grid bit in the g.723.1 MP-MLQ. 745-749
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  Sebastian Möller, Hervé Bourlard: Real-time telephone transmission simulation for speech recognizer and dialogue system evaluation and improvement. 750-753
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  Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan, David L. Thomson: HMM-based echo and announcement modeling approaches for noise suppression avoiding the problem of false triggers. 754-757
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  Fangxin Chen: Speaker information enhancement. 758-761
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  Hans Dolfing: Exhaustive search for lower-bound error-rates in vocal tract length normalization. 762-765
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  Dusan Macho, Climent Nadeu: Use of voicing information to improve the robustness of the spectral parameter set. 766-769
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  Kaisheng Yao, Bertram E. Shi, Satoshi Nakamura, Zhigang Cao: Residual noise compensation by a sequential EM algorithm for robust speech recognition in nonstationary noise. 770-773
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  Hui Ye, Pascale Fung, Taiyi Huang: Principal mixture speaker adaptation for improved continuous speech recognition. 774-777
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  Toomas Altosaar, Martti Vainio: Reduced impedance mismatch in speech database access. 778-781
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  Jiapeng Tian, Jouji Miwa: Internet training system for listening and pronunciation of Chinese stop consonants. 782-785
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  Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu: Identification of Japanese double-mora phonemes considering speaking rate for the use in CALL systems. 786-790

Volume 2

Speech Perception, Comprehension, and Production (Special Session)

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  Roy D. Patterson, Stefan Uppenkamp, Dennis Norris, William D. Marslen-Wilson, Ingrid Johnsrude, Emma Williams: Phonological processing in the auditory system: a new class of stimuli and advances in fmri techniques. 1-4
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  Itaru F. Tatsumi, Michio Senda, Kenji Ishii, Masahiro Mishina, Masashi Oyama, Hinako Toyama, Keiichi Oda, Masayuki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Gondo: Brain regions responsible for word retrieval, speech production and deficient word fluency in elderly people: a PET activation study. 5-10
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  Paavo Alku, Hannu Tiitinen, Kalle J. Palomäki, Päivi Sivonen: MEG-measurements of brain activity reveal the link between human speech production and perception. 11-14
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  Karalyn Patterson, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Helen Bird, John R. Hodges, James L. McClelland: Normal and impaired processing in quasi-regular domains of language: the case of English past-tense verbs. 15-19
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  Nadine Martin, Eleanor M. Saffran, Gary S. Dell, Myrna F. Schwartz, Prahlad Gupta: Neuropsychological and computational evidence for a model of lexical processing, verbal short-term memory and learning. 20-25
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  Takao Fushimi, Mutsuo Ijuin, Naoko Sakuma, Masayuki Tanaka, Tadahisa Kondo, Shigeaki Amano, Karalyn Patterson, Itaru F. Tatsumi: Normal and impaired reading of Japanese kanji and kana. 26-31
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  Mutsuo Ijuin, Takao Fushimi, Karalyn Patterson, Naoko Sakuma, Masayuki Tanaka, Itaru F. Tatsumi, Tadahisa Kondo, Shigeaki Amano: A connectionist approach to naming disorders of Japanese in dyslexic patients. 32-37
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  Taeko Nakayama Wydell, Takako Shinkai: Impaired pronunciations of kanji words by Japanese CVA patients. 38-41
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  Akira Uno, M. Kaneko, N. Haruhara, M. Kaga: Disability of phonological versus visual information processes in Japanese dyslexic children. 42-44
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  Xiaolin Zhou, Yanxuan Qu: Lexical tone in the spoken word recognition of Chinese. 45-50

Prosody 1, 2

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  Xiaolin Zhou, Jie Zhuang: Lexical tone in the speech production of Chinese words. 51-54
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  Yu Hu, Qingfeng Liu, Ren-Hua Wang: Prosody generation in Chinese synthesis using the template of quantified prosodic unit and base intonation contour. 55-58
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  Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Tingshao Zhu, Jiyong Ma: Multi-strategy data mining on Mandarin prosodic patterns. 59-62
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  Werner Verhelst, Dirk Van Compernolle, Patrick Wambacq: A unified view on synchronized overlap-add methods for prosodic modifications of speech. 63-66
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  Chilin Shih, Greg Kochanski: Chinese tone modeling with stem-ML. 67-70
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  Colin W. Wightman, Ann K. Syrdal, Georg Stemmer, Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel: Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. 71-74
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  Achim F. Müller, Jianhua Tao, Rüdiger Hoffmann: Data-driven importance analysis of linguistic and phonetic information. 75-78
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  Zhiqiang Li, Degif Petros Banksira: Tonal structure of yes-no question intonation in chaha. 79-82
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  Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff: Improved tone recognition by normalizing for coarticulation and intonation effects. 83-86
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  Jin-Song Zhang, Satoshi Nakamura, Keikichi Hirose: Discriminating Chinese lexical tones by anchoring F0 features. 87-90
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  Carlos Gussenhoven, Aoju Chen: Universal and language-specific effects in the perception of question intonation. 91-94
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  Chiu-yu Tseng, Da-De Chen: The interplay and interaction between prosody and syntax: evidence from Mandarin Chinese. 95-97
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  Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hiroya Fujisaki: A quantitative description of German prosody offering symbolic labels as a by-product. 98-101

Speech Interface and Dialogue Systems

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  Roni Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Arthur R. Toth, Stefanie Shriver, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black: Towards a universal speech interface. 102-105
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  Dale Russell: A domain model centered approach to spoken language dialog systems. 106-109
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  Georges Fafiotte, Jianshe Zhai: From multilingual multimodal spoken language acquisition towards on-line assistance to intermittent human interpreting: SIM*, a versatile environment for SLP. 110-113
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  Matthias Denecke: Informational characterization of dialogue states. 114-117
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  Kenji Abe, Kazushige Kurokawa, Kazunari Taketa, Sumio Ohno, Hiroya Fujisaki: A new method for dialogue management in an intelligent system for information retrieval. 118-121
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  Esther Levin, Shrikanth Narayanan, Roberto Pieraccini, Konstantin Biatov, Enrico Bocchieri, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Wieland Eckert, Sungbok Lee, A. Pokrovsky, Mazin G. Rahim, P. Ruscitti, Marilyn A. Walker: The AT&t-DARPA communicator mixed-initiative spoken dialog system. 122-125

Multimodal, Translingual, and Dialogue Systems

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  Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Johnston: Integrating multimodal language processing with speech recognition. 126-129
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  Alexander I. Rudnicky, Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alice Oh, Rita Singh: Task and domain specific modelling in the Carnegie Mellon communicator system. 130-134
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  Joakim Gustafson, Linda Bell, Jonas Beskow, Johan Boye, Rolf Carlson, Jens Edlund, Björn Granström, David House, Mats Wirén: Adapt - a multimodal conversational dialogue system in an apartment domain. 134-137
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  Kuansan Wang: Implementation of a multimodal dialog system using extended markup languages. 138-141
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  Stephanie Seneff, Chian Chuu, D. Scott Cyphers: ORION: from on-line interaction to off-line delegation. 142-145
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  Lei Duan, Alexander Franz, Keiko Horiguchi: Practical spoken language translation using compiled feature structure grammars. 146-149
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  Helen M. Meng, Shuk Fong Chan, Yee Fong Wong, Tien Ying Fung, Wai Ching Tsui, Tin Hang Lo, Cheong Chat Chan, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Ting-Yao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, Wing Nin Choi, Yiu Wing Wong, P. C. Ching, Huisheng Chi: ISIS: A multilingual spoken dialog system developed with CORBA and KQML agents. 150-153
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  Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa: New feature parameters for detecting misunderstandings in a spoken dialogue system. 154-157

Production of Spoken Language (Poster)

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  Parham Mokhtari, Frantz Clermont, Kazuyo Tanaka: Toward an acoustic-articulatory model of inter-speaker variability. 158-161
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  Pascal Perrier, Joseph S. Perkell, Yohan Payan, Majid Zandipour, Frank Guenther, Ali Khalighi: Degrees of freedom of tongue movements in speech may be constrained by biomechanics. 162-165
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  Béatrice Vaxelaire, Rudolph Sock, Pascal Perrier: Gestural overlap, place of articulation and speech rate - an x-ray investigation. 166-169
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  Masaaki Honda, Akinori Fujino: Articulatory compensation and adaptation for unexpected palate shape perturbation. 170-173
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  Takuya Niikawa, Masafumi Matsumura, Takashi Tachimura, Takeshi Wada: Modeling of a speech production system based on MRI measurement of three-dimensional vocal tract shapes during fricative consonant phonation. 174-177
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  Slim Ouni, Yves Laprie: Improving acoustic-to-articulatory inversion by using hypercube codebooks. 178-181
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  Wael Hamza, Mohsen Rashwan: Concatenative arabic speech synthesis using large speech database. 182-185
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  Dong Chen, Jingming Kuang, Yan Zhang: A new speech classifier based on Yinyang compensatory soft computing theory. 186-189
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  Sebastian Möller, Ute Jekosch, Alexander Raake: New models predicting conversational effects of telephone transmission on speech communication quality. 190-193
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  Jinyu Li, Xin Luo, Ren-Hua Wang: A novel search algorithm for LSF VQ. 194-197
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  Stéphane H. Maes, Dan Chazan, Gilad Cohen, Ron Hoory: Conversational networking: conversational protocols for transport, coding, and control. 198-201
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  Hiroshi Ohmura, Akira Sasou, Kazuyo Tanaka: A low bit rate speech coding method using a formant-articulatory parameter nomogram. 202-205
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  Ning Li, Derek J. Molyneux, Meau Shin Ho, Barry M. G. Cheetham: Variable bit-rate sinusoidal transform coding using variable order spectral estimation. 206-209
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  Yong-Soo Choi, Sueng-Kyun Ryu, Young-Cheol Park, Dae Hee Youn: Efficient harmonic-CELP based hybrid coding of speech at low bit rates. 210-213
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  Jesper Jensen, John H. L. Hansen: Speech enhancement based on a constrained sinusoidal model. 214-217
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  Sang-Wook Park, Seung-Kyun Ryu, Young-Cheol Park, Dae Hee Youn: A bark coherence function for perceived speech quality estimation. 218-221
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  Jinyu Kiang, Kun Deng, Ronghuai Huang: A high-efficiency scheme for secure speech transmission using spatiotemporal chaos synchronization. 222-225

Speaker, Dialect, and Language Recognition (Poster)

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  Leandro Rodríguez Liñares, Carmen García-Mateo: Application of speaker authentication technology to a telephone dialogue system. 226-229
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  Michel Dutat, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau, Frédéric Bimbot: Language recognition using time-frequency principal component analysis and acoustic modeling. 230-233
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  Chularat Tanprasert, Varin Achariyakulporn: Comparative study of GMM, DTW, and ANN on Thai speaker identification system. 234-237
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  Ludwig Schwardt, Johan A. du Preez: Efficient mixed-order hidden Markov model inference. 238-241
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  Olivier Thyes, Roland Kuhn, Patrick Nguyen, Jean-Claude Junqua: Speaker identification and verification using eigenvoices. 242-245
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  Arun C. Surendran, Chin-Hui Lee: A priori threshold selection for fixed vocabulary speaker verification systems. 246-249
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  Qin Jin, Alex Waibel: Application of LDA to speaker recognition. 250-253
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  Ludwig Schwardt, Johan A. du Preez: Automatic language identification using mixed-order HMMs and untranscribed corpora. 254-257
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  Johan Lindberg, Mats Blomberg: On the potential threat of using large speech corpora for impostor selection in speaker verification. 258-261
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  Javier Ortega-Garcia, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Daniel Tapias Merino: Phonetic consistency in Spanish for pin-based speaker verification system. 262-265
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  Zhimin Liu, Xihong Wu, Bin Zhen, Huisheng Chi: An auditory feature extraction method based on forward-masking and its application in robust speaker identification and speech recognition. 266-269
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  S. Douglas Peters, Matthieu Hébert, Daniel Boies: Transition-oriented hidden Markov models for speaker verification. 270-273
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  Pang Kuen Tsoi, Pascale Fung: An LLR-based technique for frame selection for GMM-based text-independent speaker identification. 274-277
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  Jiyong Ma, Wen Gao: Robust speaker recognition based on high order cumulant. 278-281
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  Luo Si, Qixiu Hu: Two-stage speaker identification system based on VQ and NBDGMM. 282-285
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  Johnny Mariéthoz, Johan Lindberg, Frédéric Bimbot: A MAP approach, with synchronous decoding and unit-based normalization for text-dependent speaker verification. 286-289
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  Zhibin Pan, Koji Kotani, Tadahiro Ohmi: A fast search method of speaker identification for large population using pre-selection and hierarchical matching. 290-293
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  Lan Wang, Ke Chen, Huisheng Chi: Optimal fusion of diverse feature sets for speaker identification: an alternative method. 294-297
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  Upendra V. Chaudhari, Jiri Navratil, Stéphane H. Maes, Ramesh A. Gopinath: Transformation enhanced multi-grained modeling for text-independent speaker recognition. 298-301
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  Takashi Masuko, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi: Imposture using synthetic speech against speaker verification based on spectrum and pitch. 302-305
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  Shahla Parveen, Abdul Qadeer, Phil Green: Speaker recognition with recurrent neural networks. 306-309
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  Yoshiroh Itoh, Jun Toyama, Masaru Shimbo: Speaker feature extraction from pitch information based on spectral subtraction for speaker identification. 310-313
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  Wei-Ho Tsai, Chiwei Che, Wen-Whei Chang: Text-independent speaker identification using Gaussian mixture bigram models. 314-317
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  Hassan Ezzaidi, Jean Rouat: Comparison of MFCC and pitch synchronous AM, FM parameters for speaker identification. 318-321
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  Marcos Fandez-Zanu, Adam Slupinski: Speaker verification in mismatch training and testing conditions. 322-325
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  Toshiaki Uchibe, Shingo Kuroiwa, Norio Higuchi: Determination of threshold for speaker verification using speaker adaptation gain in likelihood during training. 326-329
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  Mingkuan Liu, Bo Xu: Accent-specific Mandarin adaptation based on pronunciation modeling technology. 330-333

Prosody and Paralinguistics (Special Session)

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  Hyun-Bok Lee: In search of paralinguistic features. 334-340
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  Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg: A prominence based model of Swedish intonation. 341-344
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  Hideki Kasuya, Masanori Yoshizawa, Kikuo Maekawa: Roles of voice source dynamics as a conveyer of paralinguistic features. 345-348
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  Kikuo Maekawa, Takayuki Kagomiya: Influence of paralinguistic information on segmental articulation. 349-352
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  Sumio Ohno, Yoshimitsu Sugiyama, Hiroya Fujisaki: Analysis and modeling of the effect of paralinguistic information upon the local speech rate. 353-356
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  Jianfen Cao: Rhythm of spoken Chinese - linguistic and paralinguistic evidences -. 357-360
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  Sanae Eda: Identification and discrimination of syntactically and pragmatically contrasting intonation patterns by native and non-native speakers of standard Japanese. 361-364
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  Donna Erickson, Arthur Abramson, Kikuo Maekawa, Tokihiko Kaburagi: Articulatory characteristics of emotional utterances in spoken English. 365-368
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  Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiromichi Kawanami: Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech. 369-372
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  Sylvie J. L. Mozziconacci, Dik J. Hermes: Expression of emotion and attitude through temporal speech variations. 373-378
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  Klaus R. Scherer: A cross-cultural investigation of emotion inferences from voice and speech: implications for speech technology. 379-382
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  Bong-Seok Kang, Chul-Hee Han, Sang-Tae Lee, Dae Hee Youn, Chungyong Lee: Speaker dependent emotion recognition using speech signals. 383-386

Generation and Synthesis of Spoken Language 1, 2

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  Edmilson Morais, Paul Taylor, Fábio Violaro: Concatenative text-to-speech synthesis based on prototype waveform interpolation (a time frequency approach). 387-390
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  Ren-Hua Wang, Zhongke Ma, Wei Li, Donglai Zhu: A corpus-based Chinese speech synthesis with contextual dependent unit selection. 391-394
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  Geert Coorman, Justin Fackrell, Peter Rutten, Bert Van Coile: Segment selection in the L&h Realspeak laboratory TTS system. 395-398
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  Ren-Yuan Lyu, Zhen-hong Fu, Yuang-Chin Chiang, Hui-mei Liu: A Taiwanese (min-nan) text-to-speech (TTS) system based on automatically generated synthetic units. 399-402
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  Masayuki Yamada, Yasuo Okutani, Toshiaki Fukada, Takashi Aso, Yasuhiro Komori: Puretalk: a high quality Japanese text-to-speech system. 403-406
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  Ka Man Law, Tan Lee: Using cross-syllable units for Cantonese speech synthesis. 407-410
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  Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo: Limited domain synthesis. 411-414
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  Christine H. Nakatani, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Coupling dialogue and prosody computation in spoken dialogue generation. 415-418
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  Tomio Takara, Kazuto Izumi, Keiichi Funaki: A study on the pitch pattern of a singing voice synthesis system based on the cepstral method. 419-422
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  Steve Pearson, Roland Kuhn, Steven Fincke, Nick Kibre: Automatic methods for lexical stress assignment and syllabification. 423-426
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  Olga Goubanova, Paul Taylor: Using bayesian belief networks for model duration in text-to-speech systems. 427-430
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  Diane Hirschfeld: Comparing static and dynamic features for segmental cost function calculation in concatenative speech synthesis. 435-438
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  Pratibha Jain, Hynek Hermansky: Temporal patterns of critical-band spectrum for text-to-speech. 439-441

Speaker, Dialect, and Language Recognition 1, 2

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  Eric H. C. Choi, Jianming Song: Successive cohort selection (SCS) for text-independent speaker verification. 442-445
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  Dat Tran, Michael Wagner: Fuzzy normalisation methods for speaker verification. 446-449
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  Yong Gu, Hans Jongebloed, Dorota J. Iskra, Els den Os, Lou Boves: Speaker verification in operational environments - monitoring for improved service operation. 450-453
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  Larry P. Heck, Nikki Mirghafori: On-line unsupervised adaptation in speaker verification. 454-457
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  P. Sivakumaran, Aladdin M. Ariyaeeinia, Jill A. Hewitt: Multiple sub-band systems for speaker verification. 458-461
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  Xiaoxing Liu, Baosheng Yuan, Yonghong Yan: An orthogonal GMM based speaker verification system. 462-465
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  Qin Jin, Alex Waibel: A na ve de-lambing method for speaker identification. 466-469
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  Douglas A. Reynolds, Robert B. Dunn, Jack McLaughlin: The lincoln speaker recognition system: NIST eval2000. 470-473
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  Aaron E. Rosenberg, S. Parthasarathy, Julia Hirschberg, Stephen Whittaker: Foldering voicemail messages by caller using text independent speaker recognition. 474-478
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  Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty: Structural framework for combining speaker recognition methods. 479-482
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  Walter D. Andrews, Joseph P. Campbell, Douglas A. Reynolds: Bootstrapping for speaker recognition. 483-486
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  Bin Zhen, Xihong Wu, Zhimin Liu, Huisheng Chi: On the importance of components of the MFCC in speech and speaker recognition. 487-490
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  Thomas F. Quatieri, Robert B. Dunn, Douglas A. Reynolds: On the influence of rate, pitch, and spectrum on automatic speaker recognition performance. 491-494
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  Remco Teunen, Ben Shahshahani, Larry P. Heck: A model-based transformational approach to robust speaker recognition. 495-498

Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, and Psycholinguistics (Poster)

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  Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen, Bonny E. Sands: Contrastive lateral clicks and variation in click types. 499-502
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  Tomoko Matsui, Masaki Naito, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Kozo Okuda, Satoshi Nakamura: Analysis of acoustic models trained on a large-scale Japanese speech database. 503-506
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  Mahmood Bijankhan: Farsi vowel compensatory lengthening: an experimental approach. 507-510
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  Yue Wang, Joan A. Sereno, Allard Jongman, Joy Hirsch: Cortical reorganization associated with the acquisition of Mandarin tones by american learners: an FMRI study. 511-514
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  Sandra P. Whiteside, Rosemary A. Varley, T. Phillips, H. Garety: The production of real and non-words in adult stutterers and non-stutterers: an acoustic study. 515-518
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  Masaaki Shimizu, Masatake Dantsuji: A new proposal of laryngeal features for the tonal system of Vietnamese. 519-522
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  Hong Zhang, Bo Xu, Taiyi Huang: How to choose training set for language modeling. 523-526
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  Piero Cosi, John-Paul Hosom: High performance "general purpose" phonetic recognition for Italian. 527-530
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  Miren Karmele López de Ipiña, Inés Torres, Lourdes Oñederra, Amparo Varona, Nerea Ezeiza, Mikel Peñagarikano, M. Hernández, Luis Javier Rodríguez: First approach to the selection of lexical units for continuous speech recognition of Basque. 531-534
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  David W. Gow Jr.: Assimilation, ambiguity, and the feature parsing problem. 535-538
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  Sachin S. Kajarekar, Hynek Hermansky: Optimization of units for continuous-digit recognition task. 539-542
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  Ioana Vasilescu, François Pellegrino, Jean-Marie Hombert: Perceptual features for the identification of Romance languages. 543-546
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  Dawn M. Behne, Peter E. Czigler, Kirk P. H. Sullivan: Perception of Swedish vowel quantity: tracing late stages of development. 547-550
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  Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alan W. Black: Statistically trained orthographic to sound models for Thai. 551-554
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  Janice Fon, Keith Johnson: Speech timing patterning as an indicator of discourse and syntactic boundaries. 555-558
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  Amalia Arvaniti, Georgios Tserdanelis: On the phonetics of geminates: evidence from Cypriot Greek. 559-562
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  Hanny den Ouden, Carel van Wijk, Marc Swerts: A simple procedure to clarify the relation between text and prosody. 563-566
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  Kimiko Tsukada: Effects of consonantal voicing on English diphthongs: a comparison of L1 and L2 production. 567-570
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  Nigel Ward: The challenge of non-lexical speech sounds. 571-574
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  Yousif A. El-Imam: A method to synthesize Arabic from short phonetic. 575-578
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  Mauricio C. Schramm, Luis Felipe R. Freitas, Adriano Zanuz, Dante Barone: A brazilian portuguese language corpus development. 579-582
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  C. Colin, Monique Radeau, Didier Demolin, Alain Soquet: Visual lipreading of voicing for French stop consonants. 583-586
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  Yang Chen, Michael Robb: Acoustic features of vowel production in Mandarin speakers of English. 587-590
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  Robert Belvin, Ron Burns, Cheryl Hein: Spoken language navigation systems for drivers. 591-594
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  Fang Chen, Baozong Yuan: An approach to intelligent Chinese dialogue system. 595-598
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  Huei-Ming Wang, Yi-Chung Lin: Goal-oriented table-driven design for dialogue manager. 599-602
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  Alexandros Potamianos, Egbert Ammicht, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo: Dialogue management in the Bell Labs communicator system. 603-606
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  Jiang Han, Yong Wang: Dialogue management based on a hierarchical task structure. 607-610
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  Johanneke Caspers: Melodic characteristics of backchannels in Dutch map task dialogues. 611-614
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  Marc Swerts, Diane J. Litman, Julia Hirschberg: Corrections in spoken dialogue systems. 615-618
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  John Fry: F₀ correlates of topic and subject in spontaneous Japanese speech. 619-622
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  Mutsuko Tomokiyo, Solange Hollard: Specification of communicative acts of utterances based on dialogue corpus analysis. 623-627
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  Hiroaki Noguchi, Yasuhiro Katagiri, Yasuharu Den: An experimental verification of the prosodic/lexical effects on the occurrence of backchannels. 628-631
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  Tsutomu Sato, John A. Maidment: The acoustic characteristics of Japanese identical vowel sequences in connected speech. 632-635

Spoken and Multi-Modal Dialogue Systems

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  Shrikanth Narayanan, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Candace A. Kamm, James Hubbell, Bruce Buntschuh, P. Ruscitti, Jerry H. Wright: Effects of dialog initiative and multi-modal presentation strategies on large directory information access. 636-639
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  William Thompson, Harry Bliss: A declarative framework for building compositional dialog modules. 640-643
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  Kuansan Wang: A plan-based dialog system with probabilistic inferences. 644-647
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  Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara: Generating effective confirmation and guidance using two-level confidence measures for dialogue systems. 648
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