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11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8–12 2008
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Conference Program
The conference will be held in Hotel AVANTI, Brno (see the Conference Location page).
For technical details see the equipment list.
Overview
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Date | Time | Action | Room
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Monday, September 8, 2008 | 14:00 - 19:00 | Registration | Lounge
| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration | Lounge
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Opening Session | Conference hall
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Frederick Jelinek and Carolina Parada: Toward the Ultimate ASR Language Model | Conference hall
| 9:45 - 10:45 | Jerry Hobbs - invited talk | Conference hall
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch Break | Restaurant
| 13:45 - 15:00 | Poster Session (15) | Lounge
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Demo Session | Computer room
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome Reception | Restaurant
| Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 9:00 - 10:00 | Elizabeth Shriberg - invited talk | Conference hall
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 4) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | Restaurant
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Poster Session (16) | Lounge
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| Thursday, September 11, 2008 | 09:00 - 10:30 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | Restaurant
| 13:30 - 24:00 | Trip and Conference Dinner |
| Friday, September 12, 2008 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Graeme Hirst - invited talk | Conference hall
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Lounge
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) | Conference hall, Big hall
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Closing Ceremony | Restaurant
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | Restaurant
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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8:00 | Registration (Lounge)
| 9:00 | Opening Session (Conference hall)
| 9:15 | Frederick Jelinek and Carolina Parada: Toward the Ultimate ASR Language Model (Conference hall) chair: Karel Pala
| 9:45 | Jerry Hobbs - invited talk (Conference hall) chair: Karel Pala
| 10:45 | Coffee Break (Lounge)
| | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
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| Section Text (Conference hall) chair: Jerry Hobbs | Section Speech (Big hall) chair: Frederick Jelinek
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11:15 | Milena Slavcheva: Thinking in Objects | Martin Raab, Rainer Gruhn, Elmar Noth: Multilingual Weighted Codebooks for Non-Native Speech Recognition
| 11:45 | Darja Fiser, Benoit Sagot: Combining Multiple Resources to Build Reliable Wordnets | Tino Haderlein and Elmar N�th and Andreas Maier and Maria Schuster and Frank Rosanowski: Influence of Reading Errors on the Text-Based Automatic Evaluation of Pathologic Voices
| 12:15 | Sanaz Jabbari, Ben Allison and Louise Guthrie: An Empirical Bayesian Method for Detecting Out of Context Words | Petr Cerva and Jindrich Zdansky and Jan Silovsky and Jan Nouza: Study on Speaker Adaptation Methods in the Broadcast News Transcription Task
| 12:45 | Lunch Break (Restaurant)
| 13:45 | Poster Session (15) (Lounge) chair: Ales Horak
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| Margus Treumuth: Normalization of Temporal Information in Estonian | Rok Gajsek and Janez Zibert and France Mihelic: Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition in Telephone Based Dialog System Using Limited Audio Resources
| | Jaroslava Hlavacova, Michal Hrusecky: Affisix: Tool for Prefix Recognition | Oldrich Plchot, Valiantsina Hubeika, Lukas Burget, Petr Schwarz and Pavel Matejka: Acquisition of Telephone Data from Radio Broadcasts with Applications to Language Recognition
| | Laura Hasler: Spoken Requests for Tourist Information | Jiri Kopecky, Ondrej Glembek, Martin Karafiat: Advances in Acoustic Modeling for the Recognition of Czech
| | Ana-Maria Barbu: First Steps in Building a Verb Valency Lexicon for Romanian | Tomas Dubeda and Jan Raab: Pitch Accents, Boundary Tones and Contours: Automatic Learning of Czech Intonation
| | Ben Allison: Sentiment Detection Using Lexically-Based Classifiers | Marcin Szymanski and Stefan Grocholewski: Error Prediction-Based Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Speech Databases
| | Vaclava Kettnerova, Marketa Lopatkova and Klara Hrstkova: Semantic Classes in Czech Valency Lexicon | Jan Romportl: Prosodic Phrases and Semantic Accents in Speech Corpus for Czech TTS Synthesis
| | George Tsatsaronis : Word Sense Disambiguation with Semantic Networks | Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi and Petr Motlicek and Hynek Hermansky: Exploiting Contextual Information for Speech/Non-Speech Detection
| | Javier Tejada-Carcamo, Hiram Calvo, Alexander Gelbukh: Improving Unsupervised WSD with a Dynamic Thesaurus |
| | Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
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| Section Speech (Conference hall) chair: Elmar Noeth | Section Dialogue (Big hall) chair: Jan Cernocky
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15:00 | France Mihelic and Bostjan Vesnicer and Janez Zibert and Elmar Noth: Prosodic Events Recognition in Evaluation of Speech-Synthesis System Performance | Andreas Maier and Julian Exner and Stefan Steidl and Anton Batliner and Tino Haderlein and Elmar N�th: An Extension to the Sammon Mapping for the Robust Visualization of Speaker Dependencies
| 15:30 | Petr Horak: Czech Pitch Contour Modeling Using Linear Prediction | Siska Fitrianie and Leon J.M. Rothkrantz: The Generation of Emotional Expressions for a Text-Based Dialogue Agent
| 16:00 | | Alain Loisel and Jean-Philippe Kotowicz and Nathalie Chaignaud: An Issue-Based Approach to Information Search Modelling: Analysis of a Human Dialog Corpus
| 16:30 | Coffee Break (Lounge)
| 17:00 | Demo Session (Computer room) chair: Ales Horak
| | Aleksander Buczy�ski and Adam Przepi�rkowski: ♠ Demo: An Open Source Tool for Partial Parsing and Morphosyntactic Disambiguation | J�rg Ritter, Susanne Sch�tz: Unintrusive IT for philological editing
| | Neeme Kahusk: Python Module and GUI for EuroWordNet | Cerva, Zdansky, Nouza: On-line and off-line speech recognition systems for Czech language
| 19:00 | Welcome Reception (Restaurant)
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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9:00 | Elizabeth Shriberg - invited talk (Conference hall) chair: Ivan Kopecek
| 10:00 | Coffee Break (Lounge)
| | Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
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| Section Speech (Conference hall) chair: Ludwig Hitzenberger | Section Dialogue (Big hall) chair: Ivan Kopecek
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10:30 | Todor Ganchev, Alexandros Lazaridis, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis: Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems | Stanislav Ondas and Jozef Juhar and Anton Cizmar: Evaluation of the Slovak Spoken Dialogue System Based on ITU-T
| 11:00 | Remi Bove: A Tagged Corpus-Based Study for Repeats and Self-Repairs Detection in French Transcribed Speech | Ivan Kopecek and Radek Oslejsek: Dialogue-Based Processing of Graphics and Graphical Ontologies
| 11:30 | Petr Motlicek and Sriram Ganapathy and Hynek Hermansky and Harinath Garudadri and Marios Athineos: Perceptually Motivated Sub-Band Decomposition for FDLP Audio Coding | Ram�n L�pez-C�zar, Zoraida Callejas, Martin Kroul, Jan Nouza and Jan Silovsky: Two-Level Fusion to Improve Emotion Classification in Spoken Dialogue Systems
| 12:00 | Hemant A. Patil and Robin Jain and Prakhar Jain: Identification of Speakers from Their Hum | Derek Flood and Kevin Mc Daid and Fergal Mc Caffery and Brian Bishop: Intelligent Voice Navigation of Spreadsheets
| 12:30 | Lunch Break (Restaurant)
| 13:30 | Poster Session (16) (Lounge) chair: Elizabeth Shriberg
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| Ivan Habernal and Miloslav Konopik: Active Tags for Semantic Analysis | Niksa Jakovljevic and Marko Janev and Darko Pekar and Dragisa Miskovic : Energy Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition
| | Vojtech Kovar, Ales Horak, Vladimir Kadlec: New Methods for Pruning and Ordering of Syntax Parsing Trees | Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu and Andreas Wendemuth: Accent and Channel Adaptation for Use in a Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System
| | Zornitsa Kozareva and Rumen Moraliyski and Gael Dias: Web People Search with Domain Ranking | Anastasia Leontyeva and Ildar Kagirov: The Module of Morphological and Syntactic Analysis SMART
| | Verginica Barbu Mititelu: Hyponymy Patterns | Milan Rusko, Sakhia Darjaa, Marian Trnka, Viliam Zeman, Juraj Glovna: Making Speech Technologies Available in (Serviko) Romani Language
| | Qiang Zhou: A Computational Framework to Integrate Different Semantic Resources | Tobias Bocklet, Andreas Maier, Elmar N�th: Age Determination of Children in Preschool and Primary School Age with GMM-Based Supervectors and Support Vector Machines/Regression
| | Miroslav Vacura and Vojtech Svatek and Pavel Smrz: A Pattern-Based Framework for Uncertainty Representation in Ontologies | Ladislav Kunc, Jan Kleindienst, Pavel Slavik: Talking Head as Life Blog
| | Mare Koit and Olga Gerassimenko and Riina Kasterpalu and Andriela Raabis and Krista Strandson: Developing a Dialogue System | Jaromir Plhak: Dialogue Based Text Editing
| | Rodolfo Pazos and Rene Santaolalaya S. and Juan C. Rojas P., Joaquin Perez O.: Shedding Light on a Troublesome Issue in NLIDBS | Noor Shaker, Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Oumayma Al Dakkak: SSML for Arabic Language
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| Section Text (Conference hall) chair: Louise Guthrie | Section Speech (Big hall) chair: Hynek Hermansky
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14:30 | Adam Przepiorkowski and Micha� Marcinczuk and �ukasz Degorski: Dealing with Small, Noisy and Imbalanced Data | Joel Pinto and Garimella S.V.S. Sivaram and Hynek Hermansky: Reverse Correlation for Analyzing MLP Posterior Features in ASR
| 15:00 | Sun Maosong, Xu Dongliang, Benjamin K.Y. T'sou, Lu Huaming: Disyllabic Chinese Word Extraction Based on Character Thesaurus and Semantic Constraints in Word-Formation | Louis ten Bosch and Lou Boves: Language Acquisition: the Emergence of Words from Multimodal Input
| 15:30 | Wei Qiao, Maosong Sun, Wolfgang Menzel: Statistical Properties of Overlapping Ambiguities in Chinese Word Segmentation and a Strategy for Their Disambiguation | Serguei Pakhomov and Jayson Richardson and Matt Finholt-Daniel and Gregory Sales: Forced-Alignment and Edit-Distance Scoring for Vocabulary Tutoring Applications
| 16:00 | Coffee Break (Lounge)
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| Section Text (Conference hall) chair: Jaroslava Hlavacova | Section Speech (Big hall) chair: Leon Rothkrantz
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16:30 | Fernando Batista and Nuno Mamede and Isabel Trancoso : Temporal Issues and Recognition Errors on the Capitalization of Speech Transcriptions | Antti Suni and Martti Vainio: Deep Syntactic Analysis and Rule Based Accentuation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis
| 17:00 | Olga Mitrofanova, Olga Lashevskaya, Polina Panicheva: Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation in Contexts for Russian Nouns Denoting Physical Objects | Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios Petasis and Georgios Kouroupetroglou: A Framework for Language-Independent Analysis and Prosodic Feature Annotation of Text Corpora
| 17:30 | | Sotiris Karabetsos and Pirros Tsiakoulis and Aimilios Chalamandaris and Spyros Raptis: HMM-Based Speech Synthesis for the Greek Language
| 18:15 | Program Committee Meeting (Computer room) | Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
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