Text, Speech, and Dialogue : 5th International Conference, TSD 2002, Brno, Czech Republic, September 9-12, 2002: Proceedings Book

	A Common Solution for Tokenization and Part-of-Speech Tagging	3
	Rule Parser for Arabic Stemmer	11
	Achieving an Almost Correct PoS-Tagged Corpus	19
	Evaluation of a Japanese Sentence Compression Method Based on Phrase Significance and Inter-Phrase Dependency	27
	User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module	33
	The Role of WSD for Multilingual Natural Language Applications	41
	Gibbsian Context-Free Grammar for Parsing	49
	Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project
	Using Salient Words to Perform Categorization of Web Sites	65
	Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Hungarian Sign Language	73
	Dependency Analyser Configurable by Measures	81
	The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks	89
	Filtering of Large Numbers of Unstructured Text Documents by the Developed Tool TEA	99
	Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning	107
	Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese	115
	Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System	123
	Word Sense vs. Word Domain Disambiguation: A Maximum Entropy Approach	131
	Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval	139
	Valency Lexicon for Czech: From Verbs to Nouns	147
	Term Clustering Using a Corpus-Based Similarity Measure	151
	Word Sense Discrimination for Czech	155
	Tools for Semi-automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns	159
	Automatic Lexical Stress Assignment of Unknown Words for Highly Inflected Slovenian Language	165
	German and Czech Speech Synthesis Using HMM-Based Speech Segment Database	173
	Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures	181
	Strategies for Developing a Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Czech Language	189
	Comparative Study on Bigram Language Models for Spoken Czech Recognition	197
	Integration of Speech Recognition and Automatic Lip-Reading	205
	Utterance Verification Based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths	213
	Rejection Technique Based on the Mumble Model	221
	Efficient Noise Estimation and Its Application for Robust Speech Recognition	229
	AlfaNum System for Speech Synthesis in Serbian Language	237
	Speech Features Extraction Using Cone-Shaped Kernel Distribution	245
	Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments	253
	On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis	261
	An Analysis of Limited Domains for Speech Synthesis	265
	Advances in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Recognition and Synthesis Techniques	269
	A Comparison of Different Approaches to Automatic Speech Segmentation	277
	Keyword Spotting Using Support Vector Machines	285
	Automatic Parameter Estimation for a Context- Independent Speech Segmentation Algorithm	293
	Phoneme Lattice Based A[superscript *] Search Algorithm for Speech Recognition	301
	Heuristic and Statistical Methods for Speech/Non-speech Detector Design	309
	An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue	317
	Some Like It Gaussian	321
	Kernel Springy Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to a Phonological Awareness Teaching System	325
	Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models	329
	Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms	333
	Speech Enhancement Using Mixtures of Gaussians for Speech and Noise	337
	Fitting German into N-Gram Language Models	341
	Audio Collections of Endangered Arctic Languages in the Russian Federation	347
	Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments	357
	Statistical Decision Making from Text and Dialogue Corpora for Effective Plan Recognition	365
	Natural Language Guided Dialogues for Accessing the Web	373
	Evaluating a Probabilistic Dialogue Model for a Railway Information Task	381
	Applying Dialogue Constraints to the Understanding Process in a Dialogue System	389
	Evaluation of Prediction Methods Applied to an Inflected Language	397
	Knowledge Based Speech Interfacing for Handhelds	405
	Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems	413
	Strategies to Overcome Problematic Input in a Spanish Dialogue System	421
	Dialogue Systems and Planning	429
	A Flexible Framework for Evaluation of New Algorithms for Dialogue Systems	437
	From HTML to VoiceXML: A First Approach	441
	Voice Chat with a Virtual Character: The Good Soldier Svejk Case Project	445
	Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain	449
	A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People	453
	Enhancing Best Analysis Selection and Parser Comparison	461
	Author Index	467
	Subject Index	471