Program of TSD 2000

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For technical details see equipment list.

Overview
Date Time Action Room
Tuesday, September 12, 2000 14:00 – 22:00 Registration Hall
20:00 – 23:00Informal Welcome DrinkHall
Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:00 –  9:00 Registration Hall
9:00 –  9:30 Opening Session D2
9:30 – 10:20 R. Stern
Language of Science and Music
10:30 – 13:00 Working Sessions D1,D2,A107
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 18:00 Working Sessions D1,D2,A107
20:00 – 23:00 Welcome Reception Faculty Courtyard
Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:30 – 10:20 S. Furui
Speech summarization – Information extraction from speech
D2
10:30 – 13:00 Working Sessions D1,D2,A107
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 18:00 Working Sessions D1,D2,A107
20:00 – 23:00 Evening Excursion to Brno City Brno
Friday, September 15, 2000 9:30 – 10:20 M.J. Tauber
Computer Support for People with Cognitive Impairments
D2
10:30 – 13:00 Working Sessions D1,D2,A107
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 23:00 Trip + Conference Dinner
Saturday, September 16, 2000 9:30 – 12:30 Working SessionsD1,D2
9:30 – 12:30 Poster Session Hall
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

Working Sessions

Wednesday, September 13, 2000
Time Section Text
(Room D1)
Section Speech
(Room D2)
Section Dialogue
(Room A107)
chair: Olivachair: Skrelin chair: Noeth
9:30 R. Stern: Language of Science and Music
10:30 Rei Oguro, Kazuhiko Ozeki, Kazuyuki Takagi , Yujie Zhang
An Efficient Algorithm for Japanese Sentence Compaction Based on Phrase Importance and Inter-Phrase Dependency
pp. 103 – 108
Sachin S. Kajarekar, Hynek Hermansky
Analysis of Information in Speech and its Application in Speech Recognition
pp. 283 – 288
Leon Johannes Mathias Rothkrantz, Ania Wojdel
A Text Based Talking Face
pp. 327 – 332
11:00 Marek Trabalka, Maria Bielikova
Realization of Syntactic Parser for Inflectional Language using XML and Regular Expressions
pp. 63 – 68
Michael G. Malkovsky, Alexey V. Subbotin
NL-Processor and Linguistic Knowledge Base in a Speech Recognition System
pp. 237 – 242
Leon Johannes Mathias Rothkrantz, Robert Jan van Vark, Alexandra Maria Martina Peters, Niels Anton Andeweg
Dialogue Control in the Alparon System
pp. 333 – 338
11:30 Break
12:00 Goran Nenadic
Local Grammars and Parsing Coordination of Nouns in Serbo-Croatian
pp. 57 – 62
Peter Jancovic, Ji Ming, Philip Hanna , Darryl Stewart, Jack Smith
Combining Multi-Band and Frequency-Filtering Techniques for Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments
pp. 265 – 270
Afzal Ballim, Jean-Cedric Chappelier, Martin Rajman, Vincenzo Pallotta
ISIS: Interaction through Speech with Information System
pp. 339 – 344
12:30 Karel Oliva, Milena Hnatkova, Vladimir Petkevic, Pavel Kveton
The Linguistic Basis of a Rule-Based Tagger of Czech
pp. 3 – 8
Petr Motlicek, Jan Cernocky
Optimal Pitch Path Tracking for More Reliable Pitch Detection
pp. 183 – 188
Costanza Navarretta
Centering-Based Anaphora Resolution in Danish Dialogues
pp. 345 – 350
chair: Petkevic chair: Pavesic chair: Slavik
15:00 David Tugwell
Towards a Dynamic Syntax for Language Modelling
pp. 33 – 38
Hisao Kuwabara, Michinori Nakamura
Acoustic and Perceptual Properties of Syllables in Continuous Speech as a Function of Speaking Rate
pp. 229 – 236
C. Barbero, D. Falavigna, R. Gretter, M. Orlandi, E. Pianta
Some Improvements on the IRST Mixed Initiative Dialogue Technology
pp. 351 – 356
15:30 Eva Zackova, Lubos Popelinsky, Miloslav Nepil
Automatic Tagging of Compound Verb Groups in Czech Corpora
pp. 115 – 120
Tomas Dubeda, Jiri Hanika
The Continuous and Discontinuous Styles in Czech TTS
pp. 195 – 200
Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Igor A. Bolshakov
Dictionary-Based Method for Coherence Maintenance in Man-Machine Dialogue with Indirect Antecedents and Ellipses
pp. 357 – 362
16:00 Break
16:30 Karel Pala
Word Senses and Semantic Representations
pp. 109 – 114
Dragos Burileanu, Lucian Pascalin, Corneliu Burileanu, Mihai Puchiu
An Adaptive and Fast Speech Detection Algorithm
pp. 177 – 182
Laurent Blin, Mike Edgington
Prosody Prediction from Tree-like Structure Similarities
pp. 369 – 374
17:00 Gregers Koch
A Rigoristic and Automated Analysis of Texts Applied to a Scientific Abstract by Mark Sergot and Others
pp. 69 – 74
Petr Horak, Betty Hesounova
Automatic Speech Segmentation with the Application of the Czech TTS System
pp. 201 – 206
Leandro Rodriguez-Linares, Antonio Cardenal Lopez, Carmen Garcia Mateo, David Perez-Pinar Lopez, Eduardo Rodriguez Banga, Xabier Fernandez Salgado
TelCorreo: A Bilingual E-mail Client over the Telephone
pp. 381 – 386
17:30 Pavel Smrz, Ales Horak
Probabilistic Head-Driven Chart Parsing of Czech Sentences
pp. 81 – 86
Eugene I. Bovbel, Dzmitry V. Tsishkou
Belarussian Speech Recognition Using Genetic Algorithm
pp. 301 – 306


Thursday, September 14, 2000
Time Section Text
(Room D1)
Section Speech
(Room D2)
Section Dialogue
(Room A107)
chair: Tugwellchair: Hermansky chair: Pavesic
9:30 S. Furui: Speech summarization – Information extraction from speech
10:30 Yvonne Canning, John Tait, Jackie Archibald , Ros Crawley
Cohesive Generation of Syntactically Simplified Newspaper Text
pp. 145 – 150
William J. Byrne, Jan Hajic, Pavel Krbec, Pavel Ircing, Josef Psutka
Morpheme Based Language Models for Speech Recognition of Czech
pp. 211 – 216
Leandro Rodriguez-Linares, Carmen Garcia-Mateo
A Speaker Authentication Module in TelCorreo
pp. 375 – 380
11:00 Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Geert-Jan Kruijff
Aggregation and Contextual Reference in Automatically Generated Instructions
pp. 87 – 92
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic
Topic-Sensitive Language Modelling
pp. 253 – 258
Enzo Mumolo
A Syntactical Model of Prosody as an Aid to Spoken Dialogue Systems in Italian Language
pp. 387 – 392
11:30 Break
12:00Fuji Ren, Jian-Yun Nie
Sensitive Words and their Application to Chinese Processing
pp. 121 – 126
Ludek Muller, Josef Psutka, Lubos Smidl
Design of Speech Recognition Engine
pp. 259 – 264
Norihiro Ogata
What Do You Mean by "What Do You Mean"?
pp. 393 – 398
12:30 Milena Slavcheva
The Challenge of Parallel Text Processing
pp. 133  138
France Mihelic, Jerneja Gros, Elmar Noth , Volker Warnke
Recognition and Labelling of Prosodic Events in Slovenian Speech
pp. 165 – 170
Vaclav Matousek
Simplified Processing of Elliptic and Anaphoric Utterances in a Train Timetable Information Retrieval Dialogue System
pp. 223 – 228
chair: Sgall chair: Psutka chair: Matousek
15:00 David Tugwell, Adam Kilgarriff
Harnessing the Lexicographer in the Quest for Accurate Word Sense Disambiguation
pp. 9 – 14
Juan Francisco Gomez-Mena, M. Cardo , Jose Luis Madrid-Cobos, C. Prades
Database Processing for Spanish Text-to-Speech Synthesis
pp. 248 – 252
James Monaghan
Pragmatic and Grammatical Aspects of The Development of Dialogue Strategies
pp. 405 – 409
15:30 Eva Hajicova, Petr Pajas
Evaluation of Tectogrammatical Annotation of PDT
pp. 75 – 80
Pavel Skrelin
Allophone- and Suballophone-Based Speech Synthesis System for Russian
pp. 271 – 276
Patricio Martinez-Barco, Manuel Palomar
An Annotation Scheme for Dialogues Applied to Anaphora Resolution Algorithms
pp. 410 – 414
16:00 Break
16:30Geert-Jan M. Kruijff
Categories, Constructions, and Dependency Relations
pp. 51 – 56
Roger Guaus i Termens, Ignasi Iriondo Sanz
Diphone-Based Unit Selection for Catalan TTS Synthesis
pp. 277 – 282
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues
Cooperative Information Retrieval Dialogues through Clustering
pp. 415 – 420
17:00Luis Alfonso Urena-Lopez , Jose Maria Gomez-Hidalgo, Manuel de Buenaga-Rodriguez
Information Retrieval by Means of Word Sense Disambiguation
pp. 93 – 98
Jindrich Matousek
Building a New Czech Text-to-Speech System Using Triphone-Based Speech Units
pp. 223 – 228
Michelina Savino, Mario Refice
Acoustic Cues for Classifying Communicative Intentions in Dialogue Systems
pp. 421 – 426
17:30 Petr Sojka
Competing Patterns for Language Engineering
pp. 157 – 162
GyHorgy Balogh, Ervin Dobler, Tamas GrHobler, Bela Smodics, Csaba Szepesvari
FlexVoice: A Parametric Approach to High-Quality Speech Synthesis
pp. 189 – 194
Ivan Kopecek
Active and Passive Strategies in Dialogue Program Generation
pp. 427 – 432


Friday, September 15, 2000
Time Section Text
(Room D1)
Section Speech
(Room D2)
Section Dialogue
(Room A107)
chair: Kucera chair: Schukat-Talamazzini chair: Kopecek
9:30 M.J. Tauber: Computer Support for People with Cognitive Impairments
10:30 Gregory Y. Martynenko, Tatiana Y. Sherstinova
Statistical Parameterisation of Text Corpora
pp. 99 – 102
France Mihelic, Jerneja Gros, Elmar Noth, Volker Warnke
Recognition and Labelling of Prosodic Events in Slovenian Speech
pp. 165 – 170
Martin Fuchs, Petr Hejda, Pavel Slavik
Architecture of Multi-Modal Dialogue System
pp. 433 – 438
11:00 Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodriguez
Extending Bidirectional Chart Parsing with an Stochastic Model
pp. 21 – 26
Vlasta Radova and Josef Psutka
Recording and Annotation of the Czech Speech Corpus
pp. 319 – 323
Georg Stemmer, Elmar Noth, Heinrich Niemann
The Utility of Semantic-Pragmatic Information and Dialogue-State for Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems
pp. 439  444
11:30 Break
12:00 Harald Berthelsen, Beata Megyesi
Ensemble of Classifiers for Noise Detection in PoS Tagged Corpora
pp. 27 – 32
Vladimir I. Kuznetsov, Tatiana Y. Sherstinova
Russian Phonetic Variability and Connected Speech Transcription
pp. 243 – 247
Yang Li, Tong Zhang, Stephen E. Levinson
Word Concept Model for Intelligent Dialogue Agents
pp. 445 – 449
12:30 Jan Zizka, Ales Bourek, Ludek Frey
TEA: A Text Analysis Tool for the Intelligent Text Document Filtering
pp. 151 – 156
Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Jennifer Spenader
What Textual Relationships Demand Phonetic Focus?
pp. 289 – 294
Eva Hajicova, Marketa Ceplova
(Surface) Deletion and (Underlying) Reconstruction Revisited


Saturday, September 16, 2000
Time Section Text
(Room D1)
Section Speech
(Room D2)
Poster Section
(Hall)
chair: Hajicova chair: Matousek Poster Session
9:30 Gabriele Kodydek
A Word Analysis System for German Hyphenation, Full Text Search, and Spell Checking, with Regard to the Latest Reform of German Orthography
pp. 39 – 44
Eugeny E. Bovbel, Igor E. Kheidorov, Michael E. Kotlyar
Speaker Identification Using Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models and Adaptive Vector Quantisation
pp. 207  210
See instructions for poster preparation
10:00 Zdenek Zabokrtsky
Automatic Functor Assignment in the Prague Dependency Treebank
pp. 45 – 50
Ozgur Devrim Orman, Levent Arslan
Comparison of Frequency Bands in Closed Set Speaker Identification Performance
pp. 314 – 318
10:30 Break
11:00 Martin Schonhacker, Gabriele Kodydek
Testing a Word Analysis System for Reliable and Sense-Conveying Hyphenation and Other Applications
pp. 127 – 132
Zdenek Svenda, Vlasta Radova
Speaker Identification Using Kalman Cepstral Coefficients
pp. 295 – 300
11:30 Marketa Stranakova
Selected Types of Pg-Ambiguity: Processing Based on Analysis by Reduction
pp. 139 – 144
Laszlo Toth, Andras Kocsor, Kornel Kovacs
A Discriminative Segmental Speech Model and its Application to Hungarian Number Recognition
pp. 307 – 313
12:00 Ferran Pla, Antonio Molina, Natividad Prieto
An Integrated Statistical Model for Tagging and Chunking Unrestricted Text
pp. 15 – 20
Jan Nouza
A Large Czech Vocabulary Recognition System for Real-Time Applications
pp. 217 – 222
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