The list of accepted papers with abstracts is available here.

The conference will be held in Hotel Continental, Brno (see the Conference Location page). For technical details see the equipment list.

Overview
Date	Time	Action	Room
Monday, September 6, 2010	15:00 - 17:00	Registration	Lounge
Tuesday, September 7, 2010	8:00 - 9:00	Registration	Lounge
	9:00 - 9:20	Opening Session	Hall II
	9:20 - 9:45	Anoop Deoras and Frederick Jelinek: Iterative Decoding for Speech Recognition	Hall II
	9:45 - 10:45	John Carroll: Parsing and Real-World Applications - invited talk	Hall II
	10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break	Lounge
	11:15 - 12:45	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	12:45 - 13:45	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:45 - 15:00	Poster Session (14)	Lounge
	15:00 - 16:30	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break	Lounge
	17:00 - 18:00	Demo Session	Computer Room
	19:00 - 21:00	Welcome Reception	Restaurant
Wednesday, September 8, 2010	9:00 - 10:00	Christiane Fellbaum: Knowledge for Everyman - invited talk	Hall II
	10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break	Lounge
	10:30 - 12:30	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)	Hall II, Hall III
	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:30 - 14:30	Poster Session (13)	Lounge
	14:30 - 16:00	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break	Lounge
	16:30 - 18:00	Program Committee Meeting	Computer Room
	18:00 - 22:00	Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
Thursday, September 9, 2010	09:00 - 10:30	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break	Lounge
	11:00 - 12:30	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall II, Hall III
	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break	Restaurant
	13:30 - 24:00	Trip and Conference Dinner
Friday, September 10, 2010	9:30 - 10:30	Miroslav Novak: Evolution of the ASR Decoder Design - invited talk	Hall II
	10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break	Lounge
	11:00 - 12:30	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)	Hall III, Hall II
	12:30 - 12:45	Closing Ceremony	Hall II
	12:45 - 14:00	Lunch Break	Restaurant

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Time
8:00	Registration (Lounge)
9:00	Opening Session (Hall II)
9:20	Anoop Deoras and Frederick Jelinek: Iterative Decoding for Speech Recognition (Hall II) chair: Karel Pala
9:45	John Carroll: Parsing and Real-World Applications - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Karel Pala
10:45	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: John Carroll	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Frederick Jelinek
11:15	Marek Swidzinski and Marcin Wolinski: Towards a Bank of Constituent Parse Trees for Polish	Zbyn�k Zaj�c and Luk� Machlica and Lud�k M�ller: Robust Statistic Estimates for Adaptation in the Task of Speech Recognition
11:45	Miguel Ballesteros and Jes�s Herrera and Virginia Francisco and Pablo Gerv�s: Towards an N-version Dependency Parser	Simon Dobri�ek and Janez �ibert and France Miheli�: Towards the Optimal Minimization of a Pronunciation Dictionary Model
12:15	Laura Plaza and Elena Lloret and Ahmet Aker: Improving Automatic Image Captioning Using Text Summarization Techniques	Karel Veselý and Luká� Burget and Franti�ek Grézl: Parallel Training of Neural Networks for Speech Recognition
12:45	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:45	Poster Session (14) (Lounge) chair: Ales Horak
	Raquel Amaro and Sara Mendes and Palmira Marrafa: Lexical-Conceptual Relations as Qualia Role Encoders	Alin Gavril Chitu and Karin Driel and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz: Automatic Lip Reading in the Dutch Language Using Active Appearance Models on High Speed Recordings
	Amaria Adila Bouabdallah and Tassadit Amghar and Bernard Levrat: These Nouns that Hide Events: an Initial Detection	Stefan Kombrink and Mirko Hannemann and Luk� Burget and Hynek He�mansk�: Recovery of Rare Words in Lecture Speech
	Jan �i�ka and Franti�ek Da�ena: Automatic Sentiment Analysis Using the Textual Pattern Content Similarity in Natural Language	Jan Trmal and Ale� Pra��k and Zden�k Loose and Josef Psutka : Online TV Captioning of Czech Parliamentary Sessions
	V�t Baisa: Towards Disambiguation of Word Sketches	Jan Zelinka and Lubo� �m�dl and Jan Trmal and Lud�k M�ller: Posterior Estimates and Transforms for Speech Recognition
	Sven Hartrumpf and Tim vor der Br�ck and Christian Eichhorn: Semantic Duplicate Identification with Parsing and Machine Learning	Jan �vec and Lubo� �m�dl: Prototype of Czech Spoken Dialog System with Mixed Initiative for Railway Information Service
	Vladimir Robles and Antonio Molina and Paolo Rosso: Borda-Based Voting Schemes for Semantic Role Labeling	Andrey Ronzhin and Alexey Karpov and Irina Kipyatkova and Milo� �elezný: Client and Speech Detection System for Intelligent Infokiosk
	Alistair Kennedy and Stan Szpakowicz: Evaluation of a Sentence Ranker for Text Summarization Based on Roget's Thesaurus	Justyna Walkowska: An NLP-Oriented Analysis of the Instant Messaging Discourse
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Speech (Hall II) chair: Simon Dobri�ek	Section Dialogue (Hall III) chair: Jan Cernocky
15:00	Milo� Cer�ak: Diagnostics for Debugging Speech Recognition Systems	Masafumi Nishida and Yasuo Horiuchi and Shingo Kuroiwa and Akira Ichikawa: Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Multiple Level Units in Spoken Dialogue System for In-Vehicle Appliances
15:30	Jozef Ivanecký and Radek Hampl: Embedded Speech Recognition in UPnP (DLNA) Environment	Ram�n L�pez-C�zar and Zoraida Callejas and Nieves �balos and Gonzalo Espejo and David Griol: Using Knowledge about Misunderstandings to Increase the Robustness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
16:00	Martin Karafi�t and Igor Szoeke and Jan �ernock�: Using Gradient Descent Optimization for Acoustics Training from Heterogeneous Data	Marie Nilsenová and Palesa Nolting: Linguistic Adaptation in Semi-natural Dialogues: Age Comparison
16:30	Coffee Break (Lounge)
17:00	Demo Session (Computer Room) chair: Ales Horak
	Polina Ilugdina, Eugene Pakhomov: ABBYY Lingvo Pro - a global network for building collaborative multilingual tools and resources	Barbora Hladka, Jiri Mirovsky, Pavel Schlesinger: An On-Line Game Instead of the Annotation Editor
	Zuzana Neverilova: Visualization of VerbaLex Semantic Role Patterns	Ales Horak, Adam Rambousek: DEB System - Platform for Storage of Digital Knowledge
	Vojtech Kovar: Advanced Features of the Sketch Engine Corpus System	Patrick Hanks: Corpus Pattern Analysis: new light on words and meanings
	Karel Pala, Pavel Smerk: Internet Language Service	Maciej Piasecki, Micha� Marcinzuk, Adam Musia�, Rados�aw Ramocki, Marek Maziarz: WordnetLoom: a Graph-based Visual Wordnet Development Framework
	Milos Jakubicek, Ales Horak: Synt - a robust web-enabled parser for Czech	Josef Zizka: Web-Based Lecture Browser
19:00	Welcome Reception (Restaurant)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Time
9:00	Christiane Fellbaum: Knowledge for Everyman - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Maciej Piasecki
10:00	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
	Section Speech (Hall II) chair: Jindrich Matousek	Section Text (Hall III) chair: Christiane Fellbaum
10:30	Marc Le Tallec and Jeanne Villaneau and Jean-Yves Antoine and Agata Savary and Arielle Syssau: Emologus-A Compositional Model of Emotion Detection Based on the Propositional Content of Spoken Utterances	Róbert Ormándi and István Hegedüs and Richárd Farkas: Opinion Mining by Transformation-Based Domain Adaptation
11:00	Rok Gaj�ek and Vitomir �truc and France Miheli�: Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on the Decoupling of Emotion and Speaker Information	Miloslav Konop�k and Ond�ej Rohl�k: Question Answering for Not Yet Semantic Web
11:30	Theodoros Kostoulas and Todor Ganchev and Alexandros Lazaridis and Nikos Fakotakis: Enhancing Emotion Recognition from Speech through Feature Selection	Eduard Bej�ek and V�clava Kettnerov� and Mark�ta Lopatkov�: Advanced Searching in the Valency Lexicons Using PML-TQ Search Engine
12:00	Iulia Lefter and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz and Pascal Wiggers and David. A. van Leeuwen: Emotion Recognition from Speech by Combining Databases and Fusion of Classifiers	Silvie Cinková and Martin Holub and Pavel Rychlý and Lenka Smejkalová and Jana �indlerová: Can Corpus Pattern Analysis Be Used in NLP?
12:30	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30	Poster Session (13) (Lounge) chair: Ivan Kopecek
	Raquel Amaro and Sara Mendes and Palmira Marrafa: Encoding Event and Argument Structures in Wordnets	Selma Yilmazyildiz and Lukas Latacz and Wesley Mattheyses and Werner Verhelst: Expressive Gibberish Speech Synthesis for Affective Human-Computer Interaction
	Zuzana Nev��ilov�: Semantic Role Patterns and Verb Classes in Verb Valency Lexicon	Tiit Hennoste and Olga Gerassimenko and Riina Kasterpalu and Mare Koit and Kirsi Laanesoo and Anni Oja and Andriela Rääbis and Krista Strandson: The Structure of a Discontinuous Dialogue Formed by Internet Comments
	Sofia N. Galicia-Haro and Alexander F. Gelbukh: Extracting Human Spanish Nouns	Javier Mikel Olaso and Mar�a Inés Torres: Dialogue System Based on EDECÁN Architecture
	Micha� Marcinczuk and Maciej Piasecki: Study on Named Entity Recognition for Polish Based on Hidden Markov Models	Nieves �balos and Gonzalo Espejo and Ram�n L�pez-C�zar and Zoraida Callejas and David Griol : A Multimodal Dialogue System for an Ambient Intelligent Application in Home Environments
	Jan Zelinka and Jan Romportl and Lud�k M�ller: A Priori and A Posteriori Machine Learning and Nonlinear Artificial Neural Networks	Josef Psutka and Jan �vec and Josef V. Psutka and Jan Van�k and Ale� Pra��k and Lubo� �m�dl: Fast Phonetic/Lexical Searching in the Archives of the Czech Holocaust Testimonies: Advancing Towards the MALACH Project Visions
	Pavel Skrelin and Nina Volskaya and Daniil Kocharov and Karina Evgrafova and Olga Glotova and Vera Evdokimova: CORPRES	Mari-Liis Kalvik and Meelis Mihkla and Indrek Kiissel and Indrek Hein: Estonian: Some Findings for Modelling Speech Rhythmicity and Perception of Speech Rate
	Jan Hejtmánek : Using Syllables as Acoustic Units for Spontaneous Speech Recognition
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Marketa Lopatkova	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Tino Haderlein
14:30	Manfred Klenner and Angela Fahrni and Rico Sennrich: Real Anaphora Resolution is Hard	Jan Van�k and Josef V. Psutka: Gender-Dependent Acoustic Models Fusion Developed for Automatic Subtitling of Parliament Meetings Broadcasted by the Czech TV
15:00	Martin Popel and David Mare�ek: Perplexity of n-gram and Dependency Language Models	Andreas Beschorner and Dietrich Klakow: Correlation Features and a Linear Transform Specific Reproducing Kernel
15:30	Jan Nouza and Jan Silovský: Adapting Lexical and Language Models for Transcription of Highly Spontaneous Spoken Czech	Yang Sun and Louis ten Bosch and Lou Boves: Hybrid HMM/BLSTM-RNN for Robust Speech Recognition
16:00	Coffee Break (Lounge)
16:30	Program Committee Meeting (Computer Room)
18:00	Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)

Thursday, September 9, 2010
Time	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Text (Hall II) chair: Petr Sojka	Section Speech (Hall III) chair: Miloslav Konop�k
09:00	Daniel Zeman: Using TectoMT as a Preprocessing Tool for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation	Jan Trmal and Jan Zelinka and Lud�k M�ller: Adaptation of a Feedforward Artificial Neural Network Using a Linear Transform
09:30	Václav Procházka and Petr Pollák: Analysis of Czech Web 1T 5-gram Corpus and its Comparison with Czech National Corpus Data	Pascal Wiggers and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz and Rob van de Lisdonk: Design and Implementation of a Bayesian Network Speech Recognizer
10:00	Roman Kurc and Maciej Piasecki and Stan Szpakowicz: Automatic Acquisition of Wordnet Relations by Distributionally Supported Morphological Patterns Extracted from Polish Corpora	Tobias Bocklet and Florian H�nig and Tino Haderlein and Florian Stelzle and Christian Knipfer and Elmar N�th: Automatic Detection and Evaluation of Edentulous Speakers with Insufficient Dentures
10:30	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Speech (Hall II) chair: Ivan Kopecek	Section Text (Hall III) chair: Louise Guthrie
11:00	B�lint T�th and Tibor Fegy� and G�za N�meth: Some Aspects of ASR Transcription Based Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation for HMM Speech Synthesis	Anup Kumar Kolya and Asif Ekbal and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay: Event-Time Relation Identification Using Machine Learning and Rules
11:30	Milan Leg�t and Jind�ich Matou�ek: Collection and Analysis of Data for Evaluation of Concatenation Cost Functions	Joe Vasak and Fei Song: Coverage-Based Methods for Distributional Stopword Selection in Text Segmentation
12:00	Jind�ich Matou�ek: Automatic Segmentation of Parasitic Sounds in Speech Corpora for TTS Synthesis	Jakub Kanis and Lucie Skorkovská: Comparison of Different Lemmatization Approaches through the Means of Information Retrieval Performance
12:30	Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30	Trip and Conference Dinner

Friday, September 10, 2010
Time
9:30	Miroslav Novak: Evolution of the ASR Decoder Design - invited talk (Hall II) chair: Ivan Kopecek
10:30	Coffee Break (Lounge)
	Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
	Section Dialogue (Hall III) chair: Miroslav Novak	Section Speech (Hall II) chair: Leon Rothkrantz
11:00	Jan Pt��ek and Pavel Ircing and Miroslav Spousta and Jan Romportl and Zden�k Loose and Silvie Cinkov� and José Relaño Gil and Raúl Santos: Integration of Speech and Text Processing Modules into a Real-Time Dialogue System	Zden�k Hanzl��ek: Czech HMM-Based Speech Synthesis
11:30	David Griol and Michael F. McTear and Zoraida Callejas and Ramón López-Cózar and Nieves Ábalos and Gonzalo Espejo: A Methodology for Learning Optimal Dialog Strategies	Csaba Zaink� and Tam�s G�bor Csap� and G�za N�meth: Special Speech Synthesis for Social Network Websites
12:00	Pablo Gerv�s and Gabriel Amores and Raquel Herv�s and Guillermo P�rez and Susana Bautista and Virginia Francisco and Pilar Manch�n: Integrating Aggregation Strategies in an In-Home Domain Dialogue System	Martin Gr�ber and Jind�ich Matou�ek : Listening-Test-Based Annotation of Communicative Functions for Expressive Speech Synthesis
12:30	Closing Ceremony (Hall II)
12:45	Lunch Break (Restaurant)