Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

1. Front Matter

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2. Speech Processing

   1. Data-Driven Approaches to Objective Evaluation of Phoneme Alignment Systems

      • Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Greg Kochanski, John Coleman

      Pages 1-11

   2. Phonetically Transcribed Speech Corpus Designed for Context Based European Portuguese TTS

      • Maria Barros, Bernd Möbius

      Pages 12-23

   3. Robust Speech Recognition in the Car Environment

      • Agnieszka Betkowska Cavalcante, Koichi Shinoda, Sadaoki Furui

      Pages 24-34

   4. Corpus Design for a Unit Selection TtS System with Application to Bulgarian

      • Aimilios Chalamandaris, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Spyros Raptis, Sotiris Karabetsos

      Pages 35-46

   5. Automatic Identification of Phonetic Similarity Based on Underspecification

      • Mark Kane, Julie Mauclair, Julie Carson-Berndsen

      Pages 47-58

   6. Error Detection in Broadcast News ASR Using Markov Chains

      • Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso

      Pages 59-69

   7. Pronunciation and Writing Variants in an Under-Resourced Language: The Case of Luxembourgish Mobile N-Deletion

      • Natalie D. Snoeren, Martine Adda-Decker, Gilles Adda

      Pages 70-81

   8. Morpheme-Based and Factored Language Modeling for Amharic Speech Recognition

      • Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate, Wolfgang Menzel

      Pages 82-93

   9. The Corpus Analysis Toolkit - Analysing Multilevel Annotations

      • Stephen Wilson, Julie Carson-Berndsen

      Pages 94-104

3. Computational Morphology/Lexicography

   1. Time Durations of Phonemes in Polish Language for Speech and Speaker Recognition

      • Bartosz Ziółko, Mariusz Ziółko

      Pages 105-114

   2. Polysemous Verb Classification Using Subcategorization Acquisition and Graph-Based Clustering

      • Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamashita

      Pages 115-126

   3. Estimating the Proximity between Languages by Their Commonality in Vocabulary Structures

      • Yves Lepage, Julien Gosme, Adrien Lardilleux

      Pages 127-138

   4. Toposław – A Lexicographic Framework for Multi-word Units

      • Małgorzata Marciniak, Agata Savary, Piotr Sikora, Marcin Woliński

      Pages 139-150

4. Parsing

   1. Parsing CFGs and PCFGs with a Chomsky-Schützenberger Representation

      • Mans Hulden

      Pages 151-160

   2. Syntactic Analysis Using Finite Patterns: A New Parsing System for Czech

      • Vojtěch Kovář, Aleš Horák, Miloš Jakubíček

      Pages 161-171

   3. Using SRX Standard for Sentence Segmentation

      • Marcin Miłkowski, Jarosław Lipski

      Pages 172-182

   4. Using Lexicon-Grammar Tables for French Verbs in a Large-Coverage Parser

      • Elsa Tolone, Benoît Sagot

      Pages 183-191

5. Computational Semantics

   1. Effect of Overt Pronoun Resolution in Topic Tracking

      • Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki

      Pages 192-202

   2. Sentiment Intensity: Is It a Good Summary Indicator?

      • Mijail Kabadjov, Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini

      Pages 203-212

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2009, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2009. The 52 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on speech processing, computational morphology/lexicography, parsing, computational semantics, dialogue modeling and processing, digital language resources, WordNet, document processing, information processing, and machine translation.

• electronic dictionaries
• human-computer interaction
• knowledge management
• morphology
• syntactic analysis

• Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

  Zygmunt Vetulani

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