11. TSD 2008: Brno, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Ales Horák, Ivan Kopecek, Karel Pala (Eds.): Text, Speech and Dialogue, 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. Proceedings. Springer 2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-87390-7
Invited Papers
Graeme Hirst: The Future of Text-Meaning in Computational Linguistics. 3-11
Jerry R. Hobbs: Deep Lexical Semantics. 13
Elizabeth Shriberg: Practical Prosody. 17
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Ben Allison: Sentiment Detection Using Lexically-Based Classifiers. 21-28
Ana-Maria Barbu: First Steps in Building a Verb Valency Lexicon for Romanian. 29-36
Verginica Barbu Mititelu: Hyponymy Patterns. 37-44
Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso: Temporal Issues and Recognition Errors on the Capitalization of Speech Transcriptions. 45-52
Richárd Farkas, Veronika Vincze, István Nagy T., Róbert Ormándi, György Szarvas, Attila Almási: Web-Based Lemmatisation of Named Entities. 53-60

Laura Hasler: Spoken Requests for Tourist Information. 77-84

Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison, Louise Guthrie: An Empirical Bayesian Method for Detecting Out of Context Words. 101-108
Václava Kettnerová, Markéta Lopatková, Klára Hrstková: Semantic Classes in Czech Valency Lexicon. 109-116
Jáchym Kolár: A Comparison of Language Models for Dialog Act Segmentation of Meeting Transcripts. 117-124
Vojtech Kovár, Ales Horák, Vladimír Kadlec: New Methods for Pruning and Ordering of Syntax Parsing Trees. 125-131
Maosong Sun, Dongliang Xu, Benjamin Ka-Yin T'sou, Huaming Lu: Disyllabic Chinese Word Extraction Based on Character Thesaurus and Semantic Constraints in Word-Formation. 141-151
Olga Mitrofanova, Olga Lashevskaya, Polina Panicheva: Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation in Contexts for Russian Nouns Denoting Physical Objects. 153-159
Adam Przepiórkowski, Michal Marcinczuk, Lukasz Degórski: Dealing with Small, Noisy and Imbalanced Data. 169-176
Wei Qiao, Maosong Sun, Wolfgang Menzel: Statistical Properties of Overlapping Ambiguities in Chinese Word Segmentation and a Strategy for Their Disambiguation. 177-186
Bálint Sass: The Verb Argument Browser. 187-192
Milena Slavcheva: Thinking in Objects. 193-200
Javier Tejada-Cárcamo, Hiram Calvo, Alexander F. Gelbukh: Improving Unsupervised WSD with a Dynamic Thesaurus. 201-210
Margus Treumuth: Normalization of Temporal Information in Estonian. 211-218
George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Michalis Vazirgiannis: Word Sense Disambiguation with Semantic Networks. 219-226
Miroslav Vacura, Vojtech Svátek, Pavel Smrz: A Pattern-Based Framework for Uncertainty Representation in Ontologies. 227-234
Jerneja Zganec-Gros, Stanislav Gruden: MSD Recombination for Statistical Machine Translation into Highly-Inflected Languages. 235-242
Qiang Zhou: A Computational Framework to Integrate Different Semantic Resources. 243-250
Speech
Tobias Bocklet, Andreas Maier, Elmar Nöth: Age Determination of Children in Preschool and Primary School Age with GMM-Based Supervectors and Support Vector Machines/Regression. 253-260
Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves: Language Acquisition: The Emergence of Words from Multimodal Input. 261-268
Rémi Bove: A Tagged Corpus-Based Study for Repeats and Self-repairs Detection in French Transcribed Speech. 269-276
Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdánský, Jan Silovský, Jan Nouza: Study on Speaker Adaptation Methods in the Broadcast News Transcription Task. 277-284
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo: Spoken Document Retrieval Based on Approximated Sequence Alignment. 285-292
Tomás Dubeda, Jan Raab: Pitch Accents, Boundary Tones and Contours: Automatic Learning of Czech Intonation. 293-301
Petr Fousek, Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain: On the Use of MLP Features for Broadcast News Transcription. 303-310
Rok Gajsek, Janez Zibert, France Mihelic: Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition in Telephone Based Dialog System Using Limited Audio Resources. 311-316
Todor Ganchev, Alexandros Lazaridis, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis: Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems. 317-324
Tino Haderlein, Elmar Nöth, Andreas Maier, Maria Schuster, Frank Rosanowski: Influence of Reading Errors on the Text-Based Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Voices. 325-332
Petr Horák: Czech Pitch Contour Modeling Using Linear Prediction. 333-339
Niksa Jakovljevic, Marko Janev, Darko Pekar, Dragisa Miskovic: Energy Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition. 341-347
Sotiris Karabetsos, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Spyros Raptis: HMM-Based Speech Synthesis for the Greek Language. 349-356
Jirí Kopecký, Ondrej Glembek, Martin Karafiát: Advances in Acoustic Modeling for the Recognition of Czech. 357-363
Anastasia Leontyeva, Ildar Kagirov: The Module of Morphological and Syntactic Analysis SMART. 373-380
Andreas Maier, Julian Exner, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Tino Haderlein, Elmar Nöth: An Extension to the Sammon Mapping for the Robust Visualization of Speaker Dependencies. 381-388
Andreas Maier, Alexander Reuß, Christian Hacker, Maria Schuster, Elmar Nöth: Analysis of Hypernasal Speech in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate. 389-396
Piotr Majewski: Syllable Based Language Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Polish. 397-401
Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Andreas Wendemuth: Accent and Channel Adaptation for Use in a Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System. 403-410
France Mihelic, Bostjan Vesnicer, Janez Zibert, Elmar Nöth: Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance. 419-426
Hiroki Mori, Tomoyuki Satake, Makoto Nakamura, Hideki Kasuya: UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation. 427-434
Petr Motlícek, Sriram Ganapathy, Hynek Hermansky, Harinath Garudadri, Marios Athineos: Perceptually Motivated Sub-band Decomposition for FDLP Audio Coding. 435-442
Serguei V. S. Pakhomov, Jayson Richardson, Matt Finholt-Daniel, Gregory Sales: Forced-Alignment and Edit-Distance Scoring for Vocabulary Tutoring Applications. 443-450
Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Petr Motlícek, Hynek Hermansky: Exploiting Contextual Information for Speech/Non-Speech Detection. 451-459
Joel Pinto, Garimella S. V. S. Sivaram, Hynek Hermansky: Reverse Correlation for Analyzing MLP Posterior Features in ASR. 469-476
Oldrich Plchot, Valiantsina Hubeika, Lukas Burget, Petr Schwarz, Pavel Matejka: Acquisition of Telephone Data from Radio Broadcasts with Applications to Language Recognition. 477-483
Martin Raab, Rainer Gruhn, Elmar Nöth: Multilingual Weighted Codebooks for Non-native Speech Recognition. 485-492
Jan Romportl: Prosodic Phrases and Semantic Accents in Speech Corpus for Czech TTS Synthesis. 493-500
Milan Rusko, Sakhia Darjaa, Marián Trnka, Viliam Zeman, Juraj Glona: Making Speech Technologies Available in (Serviko) Romani Language. 501-508
Garimella S. V. S. Sivaram, Hynek Hermansky: Emulating Temporal Receptive Fields of Higher Level Auditory Neurons for ASR. 509-516
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Petasis, Georgios Kouroupetroglou: A Framework for Language-Independent Analysis and Prosodic Feature Annotation of Text Corpora. 517-524
Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Joachim Hornegger: Quantification of Segmentation and F0 Errors and Their Effect on Emotion Recognition. 525-534
Antti Suni, Martti Vainio: Deep Syntactic Analysis and Rule Based Accentuation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis. 535-542
Marcin Szymanski, Stefan Grocholewski: Error Prediction-Based Semi-automatic Segmentation of Speech Databases. 543-550
Dialogue


Siska Fitrianie, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz: The Generation of Emotional Expressions for a Text-Based Dialogue Agent. 569-576
Derek Flood, Kevin McDaid, Fergal McCaffery, Brian Bishop: Intelligent Voice Navigation of Spreadsheets. 577-584
Alexey Karpov, Andrey Ronzhin, Anastasia Leontyeva: A Semi-automatic Wizard of Oz Technique for Let'sFly Spoken Dialogue System. 585-592
Mare Koit, Olga Gerassimenko, Riina Kasterpalu, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson: Developing a Dialogue System. 593-600
Ivan Kopecek, Radek Oslejsek: Dialogue-Based Processing of Graphics and Graphical Ontologies. 601-608
Alain Loisel, Jean-Philippe Kotowicz, Nathalie Chaignaud: An Issue-Based Approach to Information Search Modelling: Analysis of a Human Dialog Corpus. 609-616
Ramón López-Cózar, Zoraida Callejas, Martin Kroul, Jan Nouza, Jan Silovský: Two-Level Fusion to Improve Emotion Classification in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 617-624
Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Malgorzata Marciniak, Katarzyna Glowinska: Automatic Semantic Annotation of Polish Dialogue Corpus. 625-632
Stanislav Ondás, Jozef Juhar, Anton Cizmar: Evaluation of the Slovak Spoken Dialogue System Based on ITU-T. 633-640
Rodolfo A. Pazos, René Santaolaya Salgado, Juan C. Rojas P., Joaquín Pérez Ortega: Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS. 641-648
Jaromír Plhák: Dialogue Based Text Editing. 649-655



