TSD 2002 Detailed Program

For technical details see equipment list.

Overview
Date	Time	Action	Room
Sunday, September 8, 2002	16:00 – 22:00	Registration	Hall
Monday, September 9, 2002	8:00 – 9:00	Registration	Hall
	9:00 – 9:15	Opening Ceremony	D2
	9:15 – 9:45	Frederick Jelinek - invited speech	D2
	9:45 – 10:40	Ron Cole - invited speech
	10:40 – 11:00	Coffee Break	Hall
	11:00 – 13:00	Plenary Session (4)	D2
	13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
	14:00 – 15:00	Poster Session (7)	Hall
	15:00 – 17:00	Parallel Sessions (8)	D1,D2
	17:00 – 17:30	Coffee Break	Hall
	17:30 – 19:00	Demonstration Session
	19:00 – 23:00	Welcome Reception	Faculty Courtyard
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
	9:00 – 10:00	James Pustejovsky - invited speech	D2
	10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break	Hall
	10:30 – 12:30	Plenary Session (4)	D2
	12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
	13:30 – 14:30	Poster Session (9)	Hall
	14:30 – 16:00	Parallel Sessions (6)	D1,D2
	16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break	Hall
	16:30 – 18:00	Parallel Sessions (6)	D1,D2
	18:00 – 19:00	Program Committee Meeting	B011
	19:00 – 22:00	Guided Tour to Brno
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
	9:00 – 10:00	Misha Pavel - invited speech	D2
	10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
	10:30 – 12:30	Parallel Sessions (8)	D1,D2
	12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
	13:30 – 24:00	Trip and Conference Dinner
Thursday, September 12, 2002
	9:00 – 11:00	Parallel Sessions (8)	D1,D2
	11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
	11:30 – 13:00	Parallel Sessions (6)	D1,D2
	13:00 – 13:30	Closing Ceremony	D2
	13:30 – 15:00	Lunch Break

Monday, September 9, 2002
Time
9:15	Frederick Jelinek - Speed-up of CYK Algorithm for Lexicalized PCFGs
9:45	Ron Cole - Perceptive Animated Interfaces: The Next Generation of Interactive Learning Tools
11:00	Georg Stemmer and Stefan Steidl and Elmar Nöth and Heinrich Niemann and Anton Batliner: Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures pp. 181–188
11:30	D.W. Oard and D. Demner-Fushman and J. Hajič and B. Ramabhadran and S. Gustman and W.J. Byrne and D. Soergel and B. Dorr and P. Resnik and M. Picheny: Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project pp. 57–64
12:00	C.K. Yang and L.J.M. Rothkrantz: Knowledge Based Speech Interfacing for Handhelds pp. 405–412
12:30	Janez Žibert and France Mihelič and Nikola Pavešić: Speech Features Extraction Using Cone-Shaped Kernel Distribution pp. 245–252
	Poster session

14:00	Tomaž Rotovnik and Mirjam Sepesy Maučec and Bogomir Horvat and Zdravko Kačič: Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models pp. 329–332	Andrej Žgank and Tomaž Rotovnik and Zdravko Kačič and Bogomir Horvat: Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms pp. 333–336
	P. Matějka and P. Schwarz and M. Karafiát and J. Černocký: Some Like It Gaussian ... pp. 321–324	Zervas P. and Potamitis I. and Fakotakis N. and Kokkinakis G.: On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis pp. 261–264
	Robert Batůšek: An Analysis of Limited Domains for Speech Synthesis pp. 265–268	András Kocsor and Kornél Kovács: Kernel Springy Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to a Phonological Awareness Teaching System pp. 325–328
	Ilyas Potamitis and Nikos Fakotakis and Nikos Liolios and George Kokkinakis: Speech Enhancement Using Mixtures of Gaussians for Speech and Noise pp. 337–340
	Section Text	Section Speech

15:00	Marek Trabalka and Mária Bieliková: Using Salient Words to Perform Categorization of Web Sites pp. 65–72	Dana Nejedlová: Comparative Study on Bigram Language Models for Spoken Czech Recognition pp. 197–204
15:30	Fatiha Sadat and Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura: Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval pp. 139–146	Pascal Wiggers and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz: Integration of Speech Recognition and Automatic Lip-Reading pp. 205–212
16:00	Jan Žižka and Aleš Bourek: Filtering of Large Numbers of Unstructured Text Documents by the Developed Tool TEA pp. 99–106	Michal Prcín and Luděk Müller: Heuristic and Statistical Methods for Speech/Non-Speech Detector Design pp. 309–316
16:30	Rodolfo A. Pazos R. and Alexander Gelbukh and J. Javier González B. and Erika Alarcón R. and Alejandro Mendoza M. and A. Patricia Domínguez S.: Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System pp. 123–130	Gies Bouwman and Lou Boves: Utterance Verification Based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths pp. 213–220
	Demonstration session

17:30
	Agnieszka Mykowiecka: A Large-Scale Corpus of Polish and Tools for its Annotation	Piotr Banski: XML architecture for a modern corpus
	Pavel Rychly: Advance concordances with Bonito	Brian O'Donovan and Alexander Troussov: IBM Dictionary and Linguistic Tools system Frost
	Bronius Tamulynas: Computer-based Translation from English to Lithuanian	Beate Dorow: Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning
	Zhiping Zheng: Deploying Web-based Question Answering System to Local Archive	Michael Bodasov: Generator module for InBASE NL data base Interface system
	Elena Boian: Romanian words inflection	Demidova Valentina: Hyphenation algorithm for Romanian language words
	Styve Jaumotte: Semantic Knowledge in an Information Retrieval System
	Qian Hu: The MITRE Audio Hot Spotting Prototype - Using Multiple Speech and Natural Language Processing Technologies	Antanas Lipeika: ISOLATED WORD RECOGNITION AND VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE
	Pekar Darko: ALFANUM SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION	Petr Schwarz: Keyword spotting system
	Elena Karagjosova: GoDiS - Issue-based dialogue management in a multi-domain, multi-language dialogue system

Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Time
9:00	James Pustejovsky - When Corpus meets Theory: Creating Lexical Semantic Databases
10:30	Josef Psutka and Pavel Ircing and Josef V. Psutka and Vlasta Radová and William J. Byrne and Jan Hajič and Samuel Gustman and Bhuvana Ramabhadran: Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments pp. 253–260
11:00	Pavel Květoň and Karel Oliva: Achieving an Almost Correct PoS-Tagged Corpus pp. 19–26
11:30	Jan Nouza: Strategies for Developing a Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Czech Language pp. 189–196
12:00	Genevieve Baudoin and François Capman and Jan Černocký and Fadi El Chami and Maurice Charbit and Gérard Chollet and Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz: Advances in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Recognition and Synthesis Techniques pp. 269–276
	Poster session

13:30	Dita Bartůšková and Radek Sedláček: Tools for Semi-Automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns pp. 159–162	Robert Král: Word Sense Discrimination for Czech pp. 155–158
	Michael V. Boldasov and Elena G. Sokolova and Michael G. Malkovsky: User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module pp. 33–40	Goran Nenadić and Irena Spasić and Sophia Ananiadou: Term Clustering Using a Corpus-Based Similarity Measure pp. 151–154
	Markéta Lopatková and Veronika Řezníčková and Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Valency Lexicon for Czech: From Verbs to Nouns pp. 147–150
	Jan Nouza and Petr Kolář and Josef Chaloupka: Voice Chat with a Virtual Character: The Good Soldier Švejk Case Project pp. 445–448	I. Azzini and T. Giorgino and D. Falavigna and R. Gretter: Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain pp. 449–452
	Pavel Cenek: A Flexible Framework for Evaluation of New Algorithms for Dialogue Systems pp. 437–440	César González Ferreras and David Escudero Mancebo and Valentín Cardenoso Payo: From HTML to VoiceXML: A First Approach pp. 441–444
	Section Text	Section Speech

14:30	Andrés Montoyo and Rafael Romero and Sonia Vázquez and Carmen Calle and Susana Soler: The Role of WSD for Multilingual Natural Language Applications pp. 41–48	Tomaž Šef and Maja Škrjanc and Matjaž Gams: Automatic Lexical Stress Assignment of Unknown Words for Highly Inflected Slovenian Language pp. 165–172
15:00	Armando Suárez and Manuel Palomar: Word Sense vs. Word Domain Disambiguation: A Maximum Entropy Approach pp. 131–137	Jindřich Matoušek and Daniel Tihelka and Josef Psutka and Jana Hesová: German and Czech Speech Synthesis Using HMM-Based Speech Segment Database pp. 173–180
15:30	Imad A. Al-Sughaiyer and Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi: Rule Parser for Arabic Stemmer pp. 11–18	Milan Sečujski and Radovan Obradović and Darko Pekar and Ljubomir Jovanov and Vlado Delić: AlfaNum System for Speech Synthesis in Serbian Language pp. 237–244
	Section Text	Section Dialogue

16:30	Gábor Alberti and Helga M. Szabó: Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Hungarian Sign Language pp. 73–80	Marta Gatius and Horacio Rodríguez: Natural Language Guided Dialogues for Accessing the Web pp. 373–380
17:00	Sven Hartrumpf and Hermann Helbig: The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks pp. 89–98	Emilio Sanchis and Fernando García and Isabel Galiano and Encarna Segarra: Applying Dialogue Constraints to the Understanding Process in a Dialogue System pp. 389–395
17:30	Dominic Widdows and Scott Cederberg and Beate Dorow: Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning pp. 107–114	Victoria Arranz and Núria Castell and Montserrat Civit: Strategies to Overcome Problematic Input in a Spanish Dialogue System pp. 421–428

Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Time	Section Text	Section Speech

9:00	Misha Pavel - Fusion-Based Robust Signal Processing by Humans and Machines Using High-Dimensional Representation
10:30	Jorge Grana and Miguel A. Alonso and Manuel Vilares: A Common Solution for Tokenization and Part-of-Speech Tagging pp. 3–10	Petr Motlíček and Lukáš Burget: Efficient Noise Estimation and Its Application for Robust Speech Recognition pp. 229–236
11:00	Antoine Rozenknop: Gibbsian Context-Free Grammar for Parsing pp. 49–56	Robert Hecht and Jürgen Riedler and Gerhard Backfried: Fitting German into N-Gram Language Models pp. 341–346
11:30	Tomáš Holan: Dependency Analyser Configurable by Measures pp. 81–88	Yassine Ben Ayed and Dominique Fohr and Jean Paul Haton and Gérard Chollet: Keyword Spotting Using Support Vector Machines pp. 285–292
12:00	Aleš Horák and Vladimír Kadlec and Pavel Smrž: Enhancing Best Analysis Selection and Parser Comparison pp. 461–466	Pascal Nocera and Georges Linares and Dominique Massonié and Loíc Lefort: Phoneme Lattice Based A* Search Algorithm for Speech Recognition pp. 300–308

Thursday, September 12, 2002
Time	Section Dialogue	Section Speech

9:00	Marion Mast and Thomas Ross and Henrik Schulz and Heli Harrikari: Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems pp. 413–420	Kris Demuynck and Tom Laureys: A Comparison of Different Approaches to Automatic Speech Segmentation pp. 277–284
9:30	Simon Dobrišek and Jerneja Gros and Boštjan Vesnicer and France Mihelič and Nikola Pavešić: A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People pp. 453–459	Guido Aversano and Anna Esposito: Automatic Parameter Estimation for a Context-Independent Speech Segmentation Algorithm pp. 293–300
10:00	Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos and Francisco Casacuberta: Evaluating a Probabilistic Dialogue Model for a Railway Information Task pp. 381–388	Tomáš Bartoš and Luděk Müller: Rejection Technique Based on the Mumble Model pp. 221–228
10:30	Guy Camilleri: Dialogue Systems and Planning pp. 429–436	Marina Lublinskaya and Tatiana Sherstinova: Audio Collections of Endangered Arctic Languages in the Russian Federation pp. 347–353
	Section Text	Section Dialogue

11:30	Rei Oguro and Hiromi Sekiya and Yuhei Morooka and Kazuyuki Takagi and Kazuhiko Ozeki: Evaluation of a Japanese Sentence Compression Method Based on Phrase Significance and Inter-Phrase Dependency pp. 27–32	Manolis Maragoudakis and Aristomenis Thanopoulos and Nikos Fakotakis: Statistical Decision Making from Text and Dialogue Corpora for Effective Plan Recognition pp. 365–372
12:00	Liang Huang and Yinan Peng and Huan Wang and Zhenyu Wu: Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese pp. 115–122	Anton Batliner and Viktor Zeissler and Elmar Nöth and Heinrich Niemann: Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments pp. 357–364
12:30	Elena Karagjosova and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová: An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue pp. 317–320	Nestor Garay-Vitoria and Julio Abascal and Luis Gardeazabal: Evaluation of Prediction Methods Applied to an Inflected Language pp. 397–403