Text, Speech and Dialogue: 9th International Conference, TSD 2006 Brno, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2006 Proceedings (Paperback)

Invited Papers.- Learning by Reading: An Experiment in Text Analysis.- Depth of Feelings: Alternatives for Modeling Affect in User Models.- Text.- The Lexico-Semantic Annotation of PDT: Some Results, Problems and Solutions.- Czech Verbs of Communication and the Extraction of Their Frames.- Featuring of Sex-Dependent Nouns in Databases Oriented to European Languages.- On the Behavior of SVM and Some Older Algorithms in Binary Text Classification Tasks.- A Knowledge Based Strategy for Recognising Textual Entailment.- Paragraph-Level Alignment of an English-Spanish Parallel Corpus of Fiction Texts Using Bilingual Dictionaries.- Some Methods of Describing Discontinuity in Polish and Their Cost-Effectiveness.- Exploitation of the VerbaLex Verb Valency Lexicon in the Syntactic Analysis of Czech.- Hungarian-English Machine Translation Using GenPar.- Combining Czech Dependency Parsers.- Processing Korean Numeral Classifier Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar.- Parsing Head Internal and External Relative Clause Constructions in Korean.- A Hybrid Model for Extracting Transliteration Equivalents from Parallel Corpora.- Sentence Compression Using Statistical Information About Dependency Path Length.- Transformation-Based Tectogrammatical Analysis of Czech.- The Effect of Semantic Knowledge Expansion to Textual Entailment Recognition.- Segmentation of Complex Sentences.- Enhanced Centroid-Based Classification Technique by Filtering Outliers.- Multilingual News Document Clustering: Two Algorithms Based on Cognate Named Entities.- A Study of the Influence of PoS Tagging on WSD.- Annotation of Temporal Relations Within a Discourse.- Applying RST Relations to Semantic Search.- Data-Driven Part-of-Speech Tagging of Kiswahili.- Hand-Written and Automatically Extracted Rules for Polish Tagger.- Effective Architecture of the Polish Tagger.- Synthesis of Czech Sentences from Tectogrammatical Trees.- ASeMatch: A Semantic Matching Method.- Extensive Study on Automatic Verb Sense Disambiguation in Czech.- Semantic Representation of Events: Building a Semantic Primes Component.- Cascaded Grammatical Relation-Driven Parsing Using Support Vector Machines.- Building Korean Classifier Ontology Based on Korean WordNet.- Exploiting the Translation Context for Multilingual WSD.- Post-annotation Checking of Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 Data.- Language Modelling with Dynamic Syntax.- Using Word Sequences for Text Summarization.- Exploration of Coreference Resolution: The ACE Entity Detection and Recognition Task.- Parsing with Oracle.- Speech.- Evaluating Language Models Within a Predictive Framework: An Analysis of Ranking Distributions.- Another Look at the Data Sparsity Problem.- Syllable-Based Recognition Unit to Reduce Error Rate for Korean Phones, Syllables and Characters.- Recognizing Connected Digit Strings Using Neural Networks.- Indexing and Search Methods for Spoken Documents.- Analysis of HMM Temporal Evolution for Automatic Speech Recognition and Verification.- Corpus-Based Unit Selection TTS for Hungarian.- Automated Mark Up of Affective Information in English Texts.- First Steps Towards New Czech Voice Conversion System.- Are Morphosyntactic Taggers Suitable to Improve Automatic Transcription?.- Fast Speaker Adaptation Using Multi-stream Based Eigenvoice in Noisy Environments.- Phonetic Question Generation Using Misrecognition.- Speech Driven Facial Animation Using HMMs in Basque.- Comparing B-Spline and Spline Models for F0 Modelling.- Environmental Adaptation with a Small Data Set of the Target Domain.- Current State of Czech Text-to-Speech System ARTIC.- Automatic Korean Phoneme Generation Via Input-Text Preprocessing and Disambiguation.- Robust Speech Detection Based on Phoneme Recognition Features.- Composite Decision by Bayesian Inference in Distant-Talking Speech Recognition.- Speech Coding Based on Spectral Dynamics.- Detecting Broad Phonemic Class Boundaries from Greek Speech in Noise Environments.- A System for Info