Text, Speech and Dialogue

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Information Extraction Customizer

      • Ralph Grishman, Yifan He

      Pages 3-10

   3. Entailment Graphs for Text Analytics in the Excitement Project

      • Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan, Günter Neumann, Sebastian Pado

      Pages 11-18

   4. Multi-lingual Text Leveling

      • Salim Roukos, Jerome Quin, Todd Ward

      Pages 19-26

3. Text

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. SuMACC Project’s Corpus

      • Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Usman Niaz, Francis Bouvier, Clément de Groc, Claude de Loupy et al.

      Pages 29-36

   3. Empiric Introduction to Light Stochastic Binarization

      • Daniel Devatman Hromada

      Pages 37-45

   4. Comparative Study Concerning the Role of Surface Morphological Features in the Induction of Part-of-Speech Categories

      • Daniel Devatman Hromada

      Pages 46-52

   5. Automatic Adaptation of Author’s Stylometric Features to Document Types

      • Jan Rygl

      Pages 53-61

   6. Detecting Commas in Slovak Legal Texts

      • Róbert Sabo, Štefan Beňuš

      Pages 62-67

   7. Detection and Classification of Events in Hungarian Natural Language Texts

      • Zoltán Subecz

      Pages 68-75

   8. Generating Underspecified Descriptions of Landmark Objects

      • Ivandré Paraboni, Alan K. Yamasaki, Adriano S. R. da Silva, Caio V. M. Teixeira

      Pages 76-83

   9. A Topic Model Scoring Approach for Personalized QA Systems

      • Hamidreza Chinaei, Luc Lamontagne, François Laviolette, Richard Khoury

      Pages 84-92

   10. Feature Exploration for Authorship Attribution of Lithuanian Parliamentary Speeches

       • Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Andrius Utka, Ligita Šarkutė

       Pages 93-100

   11. Processing of Quantitative Expressions with Measurement Units in the Nominative, Genitive, and Accusative Cases for Belarusian and Russian

       • Yury Hetsevich, Alena Skopinava

       Pages 101-107

   12. Document Classification with Deep Rectifier Neural Networks and Probabilistic Sampling

       • Tamás Grósz, István Nagy T.

       Pages 108-115

   13. Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Style and Consistency: Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Camus’ Novel “The Stranger”

       • Mahmoud El-Haj, Paul Rayson, David Hall

       Pages 116-124

   14. Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm

       • Somnath Banerjee, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

       Pages 125-132

   15. Score Normalization Methods Applied to Topic Identification

       • Lucie Skorkovská, Zbyněk Zajíc

       Pages 133-140

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2014. The 70 papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.

• classification
• clustering
• computational linguistics
• computational linguistics
• dialogue systems
• document classification
• document segmentation
• electronic corpora
• face recognition
• feature selection
• finite state machines
• grammar checking
• language identification
• language modeling
• language modling
• natural language processing
• quality of synthetic speech
• speech synthesis
• text analytics

• Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Petr Sojka

• Faculty of Informatics, Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Aleš Horák, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala

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