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. Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future?

      • Kenneth Church

      Pages 3-13

   3. Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context

      • Patrick Hanks, James Pustejovsky

      Pages 15-17

   4. ScanSoft’s Technologies

      • Jan Odijk

      Pages 19-19

3. Text

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Positional Linguistics-Based System for Word Alignment

      • Ana-Maria Barbu

      Pages 23-30

   3. Handling Multi-word Expressions Without Explicit Linguistic Rules in an MT System

      • Akshar Bharati, Rajeev Sangal, Dipti Mishra, Sriram Venkatapathy, T. Papi Reddy

      Pages 31-40

   4. The Szeged Corpus: A POS Tagged and Syntactically Annotated Hungarian Natural Language Corpus

      • Dóra Csendes, János Csirik, Tibor Gyimóthy

      Pages 41-47

   5. Item Summarization in Personalisation of News Delivery Systems

      • Alberto Díaz, Pablo Gervás

      Pages 49-56

   6. IR-n System, a Passage Retrieval Architecture

      • Héctor García-Puigcerver, Fernando Llopis, Mariano Cano, Antonio Toral, Héctor Espí

      Pages 57-64

   7. Event Clustering in the News Domain

      • Cormac Flynn, John Dunnion

      Pages 65-72

   8. HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation

      • László Havasi, Helga M. Szabó

      Pages 73-80

   9. Using Linguistic Resources to Construct Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts

      • Svetlana Hensman, John Dunnion

      Pages 81-88

   10. Slovak National Corpus

       • Alexander Horák, Lucia Gianitsová, Mária Šimková, Martin Šmotlák, Radovan Garabík

       Pages 89-93

   11. Grammatical Heads Optimized for Parsing and Their Comparison with Linguistic Intuition

       • Vladimír Kadlec, Pavel Smrž

       Pages 95-101

   12. How Dominant Is the Commonest Sense of a Word?

       • Adam Kilgarriff

       Pages 103-111

   13. POS Tagging of Hungarian with Combined Statistical and Rule-Based Methods

       • András Kuba, András Hócza, János Csirik

       Pages 113-120

   14. Grammatical Relations Identification of Korean Parsed Texts Using Support Vector Machines

       • Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo

       Pages 121-128

   15. Clustering Abstracts Instead of Full Texts

       • Pavel Makagonov, Mikhail Alexandrov, Alexander Gelbukh

       Pages 129-135

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004, under the auspices of the Masaryk University. This series of international conferences on text, speech and dialogue has come to c- stitute a major forum for presentation and discussion, not only of the latest developments in academic research in these ?elds, but also of practical and industrial applications. Uniquely, these conferences bring together researchers from a very wide area, both intellectually and geographically, including scientists working in speech technology, dialogue systems, text processing, lexicography, and other related ?elds. In recent years the conference has dev- oped into aprimary meetingplacefor speech and languagetechnologistsfrom manydifferent parts of the world and in particular it has enabled important and fruitful exchanges of ideas between Western and Eastern Europe. TSD 2004 offered a rich program of invited talks, tutorials, technical papers and poster sessions, aswellasworkshops andsystemdemonstrations. Atotalof78paperswereaccepted out of 127 submitted, contributed altogether by 190 authors from 26 countries. Our thanks as usual go to the Program Committee members and to the external reviewers for their conscientious and diligent assessment of submissions, and to the authors themselves for their high-quality contributions. We would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the members of the Organizing Committee for their tireless efforts in organizing the conference and ensuring its smooth running.

• Alignment
• NLP
• algorithmic learning
• computational linguistics
• description logics
• information system
• knowledge base
• learning
• linguistics
• natural language processing
• semantic web
• speech processing
• spoken dialogue
• text processing
• verification

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

  Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopeček

• Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Karel Pala

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