Text, Speech and Dialogue

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Dealing with Unexpected Words in Automatic Recognition of Speech

      • Hynek Hermansky

      Pages 1-15

   2. A Cloud on the Horizon

      • Mark Epstein

      Pages 16-16

3. Conference Papers

   1. A Novel Lecture Browsing System Using Ranked Key Phrases and StreamGraphs

      • Martin Gropp, Elmar Nöth, Korbinian Riedhammer

      Pages 17-24

   2. Addressing Multimodality in Overt Aggression Detection

      • Iulia Lefter, Leon J. M. Rothkrantz, Gertjan Burghouts, Zhenke Yang, Pascal Wiggers

      Pages 25-32

   3. Analysis of Data Collected in Listening Tests for the Purpose of Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions

      • Milan Legát, Jindřich Matoušek

      Pages 33-40

   4. Analysis of Inconsistencies in Cross-Lingual Automatic ToBI Tonal Accent Labeling

      • David Escudero-Mancebo, Carlos Vivaracho Pascual, César González Ferreras, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo, Lourdes Aguilar

      Pages 41-48

   5. Automatic Semantic Labeling of Medical Texts with Feature Structures

      • Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Małgorzata Marciniak

      Pages 49-56

   6. Automatic Switchboard Operator

      • Tomáš Valenta, Luboš Šmídl

      Pages 57-63

   7. Automatic Topic Identification for Large Scale Language Modeling Data Filtering

      • Lucie Skorkovská, Pavel Ircing, Aleš Pražák, Jan Lehečka

      Pages 64-71

   8. Automatic Translation Error Analysis

      • Mark Fishel, Ondřej Bojar, Daniel Zeman, Jan Berka

      Pages 72-79

   9. Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation and Construction Identification Based on Corpus Multilevel Annotation

      • Olga Lyashevskaya, Olga Mitrofanova, Maria Grachkova, Sergey Romanov, Anastasia Shimorina, Alexandra Shurygina

      Pages 80-90

   10. Bootstrapping Bilingual Lexicons from Comparable Corpora for Closely Related Languages

       • Nikola Ljubešić, Darja Fišer

       Pages 91-98

   11. Combining Topic Specific Language Models

       • Yangyang Shi, Pascal Wiggers, Catholijn M. Jonker

       Pages 99-106

   12. Czech HMM-Based Speech Synthesis: Experiments with Model Adaptation

       • Zdeněk Hanzlíček

       Pages 107-114

   13. Effective Parsing Using Competing CFG Rules

       • Miloš Jakubíček

       Pages 115-122

   14. Efficiency of Speech Alignment for Semi-automated Subtitling in Dutch

       • Patrick Wambacq, Kris Demuynck

       Pages 123-130

   15. Evaluation of Hands-Free Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition by Blind Dereverberation Based on Spectral Subtraction by Multi-channel LMS Algorithm

       • Longbiao Wang, Kyohei Odani, Atsuhiko Kai

       Pages 131-138

   16. Fusion of Discriminative and Generative Scoring Criteria in GMM-Based Speaker Verification

       • Boštjan Vesnicer, Jerneja Žganec Gros, France Mihelič

       Pages 139-146

   17. Generalized Non-uniform Time Scaling Distribution Method for Natural-Sounding Speech Rate Change

       • Daniel Tihelka, Martin Méner

       Pages 147-154

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2011, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2011. The 53 papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The main topic of this year's conference was "integrating modern Web with speech and language technologies". This year the Third International Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language was affiliated to TSD. The present book contains 8 contributions from this workshop.

• Web-based systems
• forensic linguistics
• speech analysis
• text mining
• unsupervised learning

• Department of Computer Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

  Ivan Habernal

• Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

  Václav Matoušek

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