Text, Speech and Dialogue [electronic resource] : 12th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009. Proceedings / edited by Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner.

Invited Talks -- Code Breaking for Automatic Speech Recognition -- The Semantics of Semantics in Language Processing -- Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems -- Semantic Information Processing for Multi-party Interaction -- Communication Disorders and Speech Technology -- Text -- A Gradual Combination of Features for Building Automatic Summarisation Systems -- Combining Text Vector Representations for Information Retrieval -- Detecting and Correcting Errors in an English Tectogrammatical Annotation -- Improving the Clustering of Blogosphere with a Self-term Enriching Technique -- Advances in Czech – Signed Speech Translation -- Improving Word Alignment Using Alignment of Deep Structures -- Trdlo, an Open Source Tool for Building Transducing Dictionary -- Improving Patient Opinion Mining through Multi-step Classification -- Update Summarization Based on Latent Semantic Analysis -- WEBSOM Method - Word Categories in Czech Written Documents -- Opinion Target Network: A Two-Layer Directed Graph for Opinion Target Extraction -- The Czech Broadcast Conversation Corpus -- Vector-Based Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation for Large Number of Contexts -- Chinese Pinyin-Text Conversion on Segmented Text -- Mining Phrases from Syntactic Analysis -- Problems with Pruning in Automatic Creation of Semantic Valence Dictionary for Polish -- Speech -- Disambiguating Tags in Blogs -- Intraclausal Coordination and Clause Detection as a Preprocessing Step to Dependency Parsing -- Transcription of Catalan Broadcast Conversation -- An Analysis of the Impact of Ambiguity on Automatic Humour Recognition -- Objective vs. Subjective Evaluation of Speakers with and without Complete Dentures -- Automatic Pitch-Synchronous Phonetic Segmentation with Context-Independent HMMs -- First Experiments on Text-to-Speech System Personification -- Parsing with Agreement -- An Adaptive BIC Approach for Robust Speaker Change Detection in Continuous Audio Streams -- Fusion of Acoustic and Prosodic Features for Speaker Clustering -- Combining Topic Information and Structure Information in a Dynamic Language Model -- Expanding Topic-Focus Articulation with Boundary and Accent Assignment Rules for Romanian Sentence -- Lexical Affinity Measure between Words -- Multimodal Labeling -- The ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication “One Speaker’s Day”: Creation Principles and Annotation -- The Structure of the ORD Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication -- Analysis and Assessment of AvID: Multi-Modal Emotional Database -- Refinement Approach for Adaptation Based on Combination of MAP and fMLLR -- Towards the Automatic Classification of Reading Disorders in Continuous Text Passages -- A Comparison of Acoustic Models Based on Neural Networks and Gaussian Mixtures -- Semantic Annotation for the LingvoSemantics Project -- Hybrid Semantic Analysis -- On a Computational Model for Language Acquisition: Modeling Cross-Speaker Generalisation -- Efficient Parsing of Romanian Language for Text-to-Speech Purposes -- Discriminative Training of Gender-Dependent Acoustic Models -- Design of the Test Stimuli for the Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions -- Towards an Intelligent User Interface: Strategies of Giving and Receiving Phone Numbers -- Error Resilient Speech Coding Using Sub-band Hilbert Envelopes -- Dialog -- Prototyping Dialogues with Midiki: An Information State Update Dialogue Manager -- Experiments with Automatic Query Formulation in the Extended Boolean Model -- Daisie: Information State Dialogues for Situated Systems -- Linguistic Models Construction and Analysis for Satisfaction Estimation -- Shallow Features for Differentiating Disease-Treatment Relations Using Supervised Learning A Pilot Study -- Extended Hidden Vector State Parser -- Semantic Annotation of City Transportation Information Dialogues Using CRF Method -- Towards Flexible Dialogue Management Using Frames.