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	Zbyněk Zajíc and Lukáš Machlica and Luděk Müller: Robust Statistic Estimates for Adaptation in the Task of Speech Recognition
11:45	Miguel Ballesteros and Jesús Herrera and Virginia Francisco and Pablo Gervás: Towards an N-version Dependency Parser	Simon Dobrišek and Janez Žibert and France Mihelič: 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 Lukáš Burget and František 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 Lukáš Burget and Hynek Heřmanský: Recovery of Rare Words in Lecture Speech
	Jan Žižka and František Dařena: Automatic Sentiment Analysis Using the Textual Pattern Content Similarity in Natural Language	Jan Trmal and Aleš Pražák and Zdeněk Loose and Josef Psutka : Online TV Captioning of Czech Parliamentary Sessions
	Vít Baisa: Towards Disambiguation of Word Sketches	Jan Zelinka and Luboš Šmídl and Jan Trmal and Luděk Müller: Posterior Estimates and Transforms for Speech Recognition
	Sven Hartrumpf and Tim vor der Brück and Christian Eichhorn: Semantic Duplicate Identification with Parsing and Machine Learning	Jan Švec and Luboš Šmídl: 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 Miloš Železný: 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 Dobrišek	Section Dialogue (Hall III) chair: Jan Cernocky
15:00	Miloš Cerňak: 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	Ramón López-Cózar and Zoraida Callejas and Nieves Ábalos and Gonzalo Espejo and David Griol: Using Knowledge about Misunderstandings to Increase the Robustness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
16:00	Martin Karafiát and Igor Szoeke and Jan Černocký: 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, Michał Marcinzuk, Adam Musiał, Radosław 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 Gajšek and Vitomir Štruc and France Mihelič: Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on the Decoupling of Emotion and Speaker Information	Miloslav Konopík and Ondřej Rohlík: 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 Bejček and Václava Kettnerová and Markéta Lopatková: 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 Šindlerová: 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 Nevěřilová: 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 María Inés Torres: Dialogue System Based on EDECÁN Architecture
	Michał Marcinczuk and Maciej Piasecki: Study on Named Entity Recognition for Polish Based on Hidden Markov Models	Nieves Ábalos and Gonzalo Espejo and Ramón López-Cózar and Zoraida Callejas and David Griol : A Multimodal Dialogue System for an Ambient Intelligent Application in Home Environments
	Jan Zelinka and Jan Romportl and Luděk Müller: A Priori and A Posteriori Machine Learning and Nonlinear Artificial Neural Networks	Josef Psutka and Jan Švec and Josef V. Psutka and Jan Vaněk and Aleš Pražák and Luboš Šmídl: 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 Vaněk 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 Mareček: 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 Konopík
09:00	Daniel Zeman: Using TectoMT as a Preprocessing Tool for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation	Jan Trmal and Jan Zelinka and Luděk Müller: 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 Hönig and Tino Haderlein and Florian Stelzle and Christian Knipfer and Elmar Nöth: 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	Bálint Tóth and Tibor Fegyó and Géza Németh: 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 Legát and Jindřich Matoušek: 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	Jindřich Matoušek: 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 Ptáček and Pavel Ircing and Miroslav Spousta and Jan Romportl and Zdeněk Loose and Silvie Cinková and José Relaño Gil and Raúl Santos: Integration of Speech and Text Processing Modules into a Real-Time Dialogue System	Zdeněk Hanzlíček: 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 Zainkó and Tamás Gábor Csapó and Géza Németh: Special Speech Synthesis for Social Network Websites
12:00	Pablo Gervás and Gabriel Amores and Raquel Hervás and Guillermo Pérez and Susana Bautista and Virginia Francisco and Pilar Manchón: Integrating Aggregation Strategies in an In-Home Domain Dialogue System	Martin Grůber and Jindřich Matoušek : Listening-Test-Based Annotation of Communicative Functions for Expressive Speech Synthesis
12:30	Closing Ceremony (Hall II)
12:45	Lunch Break (Restaurant)