Sojka P., Horák A., Kopeček I., Pala K. (eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue

Springer, 2012. — 704 p.15th International Conference, TSD 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2012 Proceedings.The annual Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference (TSD), which originated in 1998, is in the middle of its second decade. So far more than 1,000 authors from 45 countries have contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognized platform for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the field of natural language processing. It has become an interdisciplinary forum, interweaving the themes of speech technology and language processing. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. Indeed, one of its goals has always been to bring together NLP researchers with different interests from different parts of the world and to promote their mutual cooperation. One of the ambitions of the conference is, as its title says, not only to deal with dialogue systems as such, but also to contribute to improving dialogue between researchers in the two areas of NLP, i.e., between text and speech people. In our view, the TSD Conference was successful in this respect in 2012 again.Invited Papers
Getting to Know Your Corpus
Coreference Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP Applications?
Text
Semantic Similarity Functions in Word Sense Disambiguation
Opinion Mining on a German Corpus of a Media Response Analysis
The Soundex Phonetic Algorithm Revisited for SMS Text Representation
Sentence Modality Assignment in the Prague Dependency Treebank
Literacy Demands and Information to Cancer Patients
Expanding Opinion Attribute Lexicons
Taggers Gonna Tag: An Argument against Evaluating Disambiguation Capacities of Morphosyntactic Taggers
An Ambiguity Aware Treebank Search Tool
A New Annotation Tool for Aligned Bilingual Corpora
Optimizing Sentence Boundary Detection for Croatian
Mining the Web for Idiomatic Expressions Using Metalinguistic Markers
Using Tree Transducers for Detecting Errors in a Treebank of Polish
Combining Manual and Automatic Annotation of a Learner Corpus
A Manually Annotated Corpus of Pharmaceutical Patents
Large-Scale Experiments with NP Chunking of Polish
Mapping a Lexical Semantic Resource to a Common Framework of Computational Lexicons
The Rule-Based Approach to Czech Grammaticalized Alternations
Semi-supervised Acquisition of Croatian Sentiment Lexicon
Towards a Constraint Grammar Based Morphological Tagger for Croatian
A Type-Theoretical Wide-Coverage Computational Grammar for Swedish
Application of Lemmatization and Summarization Methods in Topic Identification Module for Large Scale Language Modeling Data Filtering
Experiments and Results with Diacritics Restoration in Romanian
Supervised Distributional Semantic Relatedness
PSI-Toolkit: How to Turn a Linguist into a Computational Linguist
Heterogeneous Named Entity Similarity Function
Joint Part-of-Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition Using Factor Graphs
Assigning Deep Lexical Types
SBFC: An Efficient Feature Frequency-Based Approach to Tackle Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation
Dependency Relations Labeller for Czech
Preliminary Study on Automatic Induction of Rules for Recognition of Semantic Relations between Proper Names in Polish Texts
Actionable Clause Detection from Non-imperative Sentences in Howto Instructions: A Step for Actionable Information Extraction
Authorship Attribution: Comparison of Single-Layer and Double-Layer Machine Learning
Key Phrase Extraction of Lightly Filtered Broadcast News
Using a Double Clustering Approach to Build Extractive Multi-document Summaries
A Comparative Study of the Impact of Statistical and Semantic Features in the Framework of Extractive Text Summarization
Using Dependency-Based Annotations for Authorship Identification
A Space-Efficient Phrase Table Implementation Using Minimal Perfect Hash Functions
Common Sense Inference Using Verb Valency Frames
A Genetic Programming Experiment in Natural Language Grammar Engineering
User Modeling for Language Learning in Facebook
Detection of Semantic Compositionality Using Semantic Spaces
User Adaptation in a Hybrid MT System: Feeding User Corrections into Synchronous Grammars and System Dictionaries
Using Cognates to Improve Lexical Alignment Systems
Disambiguating Word Translations with Target Language Models
English-Vietnamese Machine Translation of Proper Names: Error Analysis and Some Proposed Solutions
Improved Phrase Translation Modeling Using MAP Adaptation
Speech
A Romanian Language Corpus for a Commercial Text-To-Speech Application
Making Community and ASR Join Forces in Web Environment
Unsupervised Synchronization of Hidden Subtitles with Audio Track Using Keyword Spotting Algorithm
Did You Say What I Think You Said? Towards a Language-Based Measurement of a Speech Recognizer’s Confidence
Dealing with Numbers in Grapheme-Based Speech Recognition
Discretion of Speech Units for the Text Post-processing Phase of Automatic Transcription (in the Czech Language)
On the Impact of Annotation Errors on Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis
Analysis of the Influence of Speech Corpora in the PLDA Verification in the Task of Speaker Recognition
Adaptive Language Modeling with a Set of Domain Dependent Models
Robust Adaptation Techniques Dealing with Small Amount of Data
Language Modeling of Nonverbal Vocalizations in Spontaneous Speech
Acoustic Segmentation Using Group Delay Functions and Its Relevance to Spoken Keyword Spotting
An In-Car Speech Recognition System for Disabled Drivers
Captioning of Live TV Programs through Speech Recognition and Re-speaking
Investigation on Most Frequent Errors in Large-Scale Speech Recognition Applications
Neural Network Language Model with Cache
TENOR: A Lexical Normalisation Tool for Spanish Web 2.0 Texts
A Bilingual HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for Closely Related Languages
The Role of Nasal Contexts on Quality of Vowel Concatenations
Analysis and Assessment of State Relevance in HMM-Based Feature Extraction Method
On the Impact of Non-speech Sounds on Speaker Recognition
Automatic Rating of Hoarseness by Text-Based Cepstral and Prosodic Evaluation
Improving the Classification of Healthy and Pathological Continuous Speech
Dialogue
Using Foot-Syllable Grammars to Customize Speech Recognizers for Dialogue Systems
Coupled Pragmatic and Semantic Automata in Spoken Dialogue Management
Exploration of Metaphor and Affect Sensing Using Semantic Interpretation in an Intelligent Agent
Sentence Classification with Grammatical Errors and Those Out of Scope of Grammar Assumption for Dialogue-Based CALL Systems
Spoken Dialogue System Design in 3 Weeks
Integrating Dialogue Systems with Images
Natural Language Understanding: From Laboratory Predictions to Real Interactions
Unsupervised Clustering of Prosodic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech
Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain: Comparison of Unit Selection and HMM-Based Approaches
Aggression Detection in Speech Using Sensor and Semantic Information
Question Classification with Active Learning
2B$ – Testing Past Algorithms in Nowadays Web
Morphological Resources for Precise Information Retrieval