TSD 2014

17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8–12 2014

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Conference Program

The conference will be held in Hotel Continental, Brno (see the Conference Location page).

Overview
Date Time Action Room
Monday, September 8, 2014 15:00 - 18:00 Registration Lounge
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Lounge
9:00 - 9:20 Opening Session Hall II
9:20 - 10:20 Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan, Günter Neumann and Sebastian Pado:
Entailment Graphs for Text Analytics in the Excitement Project - invited talk Hall II
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee Break Lounge
10:45 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) Hall II, Hall III
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break Restaurant
13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session (14) Lounge
15:00 - 16:15 Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) Hall II, Hall III
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break Lounge
16:45 - 18:00 Demo Session Computer Room
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception Restaurant
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:00 - 10:00 Salim Roukos and Jerome Quin and Todd Ward:
Multi-Lingual Text Leveling - invited talk Hall II
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Lounge
10:30 - 12:10 Parallel Sessions (2 x 4) Hall II, Hall III
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch Break Restaurant
13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session (13) Lounge
15:00 - 15:50 Parallel Sessions (2 x 2) Hall II, Hall III
15:50 - 16:15 Coffee Break Lounge
16:15 - 17:05 Parallel Sessions (2 x 2) Hall II, Hall III
17:10 - 18:00 Program Committee Meeting Computer Room
18:00 - 22:00 Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:00 - 10:15 Parallel Sessions (2 x 3) Hall II, Hall III
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break Lounge
10:45 - 11:35 Parallel Sessions (2 x 2) Hall II, Hall III
11:35 - 13:00 Lunch Break Restaurant
13:00 - 24:00 Trip and Conference Dinner
Friday, September 12, 2014 9:30 - 10:30 Ralph Grishman and Yifan He:
An Information Extraction Customizer - invited talk Hall II
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Lounge
11:00 - 11:50 Parallel Sessions (2 x 2) Hall II, Hall III
11:50 - 12:00 Closing Ceremony Hall II
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break Restaurant

Monday, September 8, 2014

Time
15:00 Registration (Lounge)
18:00

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Time
8:00 Registration (Lounge)
9:00 Opening Session (Hall II)
9:20 Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan, Günter Neumann and Sebastian Pado:
Entailment Graphs for Text Analytics in the Excitement Project - invited talk (Hall II)
chair: Karel Pala
10:20 Coffee Break (Lounge)
Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Maciej Piasecki Section Speech (Hall III)
chair: Jindrich Matousek
10:45 Mohamed Morchid and Richard Dufour and Usman Niaz and Francis Bouvier and Clément de Groc and Claude de Loupy and Georges Linarès and Bernard Merialdo and Bertrand Peralta:
SuMACC Project's Corpus Markéta Jůzová and Daniel Tihelka:
Minimum Text Corpus Selection for Limited Domain Speech Synthesis
11:10 György Orosz and Kinga Mátyus:
An MLU Estimation Method for Hungarian Transcripts Tilda Neuberger and Dorottya Gyarmathy and Tekla Etelka Gráczi and Viktória Horváth and Mária Gósy and András Beke:
Development of a Large Spontaneous Speech Database of Agglutinative Hungarian Language
11:35 Vladimír Benko:
Aranea: Yet Another Family of (Comparable) Web Corpora Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Martin Grůber:
Initial Experiments on Automatic Correction of Prosodic Annotation of Large Speech Corpora
12:00 Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30 Poster Session (14) (Lounge)
chair: Ales Horak
Ivandré Paraboni and Alan K. Yamasaki and Adriano S. R. da Silva and Caio V. M. Teixeira:
Generating Underspecified Descriptions of Landmark Objects Daniel Soutner and Luděk Müller:
Continuous Distributed Representations of Words as Input of LSTM Network Language Model
Jurgita Kapočiute-Dzikiene and Andrius Utka and Ligita Šarkute:
Feature Exploration for Authorship Attribution of Lithuanian Parliamentary Speeches Rubén Izquierdo and Sonia Vázquez and Andrés Montoyo:
Semantic Classes and Relevant Domains on WSD
Yury Hetsevich and Alena Skopinava :
Processing of Quantitative Expressions with Measurement Units in the Nominative, Genitive, and Accusative Cases for Belarusian and Russian Munshi Asadullah and Damien Nouvel and Patrick Paroubek:
Using Verb-Noun Patterns to Detect Process Inputs
Tamás Grósz, István Nagy T.:
Document Classification with Deep Rectifier Neural Networks and Probabilistic Sampling David Steele and Lucia Specia:
Divergences in the Usage of Discourse Markers in English and Mandarin Chinese
Mahmoud El-Haj and Paul Rayson and David Hall:
Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Style and Consistency: Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Camus' Novel ``The Stranger'' Jiří Přibil and Anna Přibilová and Jindřich Matoušek:
GMM Classification of TTS Synthesis: Identification of Original Speaker's Voice
Lucie Skorkovská and Zbyněk Zajíc:
Score Normalization Methods Applied to Topic Identification Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave and Elkyn Alexander Belalcázar-Bolaños and Julián David Arias-Londoño and Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla and Tino Haderlein and Elmar Noeth :
Phonation and Articulation Analysis of Spanish Vowels for Automatic Detection of Parkinson's Disease
Hironori Fukushima and Kenji Araki and Yuzu Uchida :
Disambiguation of Japanese Onomatopoeias using Nouns and Verbs Ivan Kopeček, Radek Ošlejšek and Jaromír Plhák:
Ontology Based Strategies for Supporting Communication within Social Networks
Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
Section Speech (Hall II)
chair: Vlasta Radova Section Dialogue (Hall III)
chair: Zdenek Hanzlicek
15:00 Yuta Kawakami and Longbiao Wang and Atsuhiko Kai and Seiichi Nakagawa:
Speaker Identification by Combining Various Vocal Tract and Vocal Source Features Ondřej Plátek and Filip Jurčíček:
Integration of an on-line Kaldi Speech Recogniser to the Alex Dialogue Systems Framework
15:25 Pavel Campr and Marie Kunešová and Jan Vaněk and Jan Čech and Josef Psutka:
Audio-Video Speaker Diarization for Unsupervised Speaker and Face Model Creation Thiago Castro Ferreira and Ivandré Paraboni:
Referring Expression Generation: Taking Speakers' Preferences into Account
15:50 Michaela Kuchařová and Svatava Škodová and Ladislav Šeps and Marek Boháč :
Study on Phrases Used for Semi-Automatic Text-Based Speakers’ Names Extraction in the Czech Radio Broadcasts News Tino Haderlein and Catherine Middag and Andreas Maier and Jean-Pierre Martens and Michael Doellinger and Elmar Noeth:
Visualization of Intelligibility Measured by Language-Independent Features
16:15 Coffee Break (Lounge)
16:45 Demo Session (Computer Room)
chair: Pavel Rychly
Andrey Kutuzov, Maria Kunilovskaya:
Research potential and design of Russian Learner Translator Corpus Tobias Kortkamp, Martin Ring, Mathias Soeken, Rolf Drechsler:
A collaborative NLP development environment
Hlaváčová Jaroslava:
Multilingual Aspects of the Khresmoi project Ahmed Ali, Yifan Zhang, Stephan Vogel:
QCRI Advanced Transcription System (QATS)
Richard Jelínek, Jiří Mácha, Jiří Václavík:
PetaMem Scripting Environment Vit Suchomel:
Finding Terms in Corpora for Many Languages
18:00
19:00 Welcome Reception (Restaurant)
21:00

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Time
9:00 Salim Roukos and Jerome Quin and Todd Ward:
Multi-Lingual Text Leveling - invited talk (Hall II)
chair: Bernardo Magnini
10:00 Coffee Break (Lounge)
Parallel Sessions (2 x 4)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Salim Roukos Section Speech (Hall III)
chair: Tino Haderlein
10:30 Ines Boujelben and Salma Jamoussi and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou:
RelANE: Discovering Relations between Arabic Named Entities Jan Vaněk and Josef Psutka:
Anti-Models: An Alternative Way to Discriminative Training
10:55 Andoni Azpeitia and Montse Cuadros and Seán Gaines and German Rigau:
NERC-fr: Supervised Named Entity Recognition for French Svetlana Popova and Ivan Khodyrev and Irina Ponomareva and Tatiana Krivosheeva:
Automatic Speech Recognition Texts Clustering
11:20 Michal Konkol and Miloslav Konopík:
Named Entity Recognition for Highly Inflectional Languages: Effects of Various Lemmatization and Stemming Approaches Petr Mizera and Petr Pollak and Alice Kolman and Mirjam Ernestus:
Impact of Irregular Pronunciation on Phonetic Segmentation of Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Czech
11:45 Somnath Banerjee and Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay :
Bengali Named Entity Recognition using Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm Michał Lenarczyk:
Parametric Speech Coding Framework for Voice Conversion Based on Mixed Excitation Model
12:10 Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:30 Poster Session (13) (Lounge)
chair: Petr Sojka
Hai Hieu Vu and Jeanne Villaneau and Farida Said and Pierre-François Marteau:
Sentence Similarity by Combining Explicit Semantic Analysis and Overlapping N-grams Maciej Piasecki and Michał Wendelberger:
Partial Measure of Semantic Relatedness based on the Local Feature Selection
Erqiang Zhou and Xi Luo and Zhiguang Qin:
Incorporating Language Patterns and Domain Knowledge into Feature-opinion Extraction Anatoly Anisimov and Oleksandr Marchenko and Emil Nasirov and Stepan Palamarchuk:
A Method for Parallel Non-Negative Sparse Large Matrix Factorization
Somnath Banerjee and Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay :
BFQA: A Bengali Factoid Question Answering System Pascal Vaillant and Jean-Baptiste Lamy:
Using Graph Transformation Algorithms to Generate Natural Language Equivalents of Icons Expressing Medical Concepts
Raja Bensalem Bahloul and Marwa Elkarwi and Kais Haddar and Philippe Blache:
Building an Arabic Linguistic Resource from a Treebank: the Case of Property Grammar Pepi Stavropoulou and Dimitrios Tsonos and Georgios Kouroupetroglou:
Language Resources and Evaluation for the Support of the Greek Language in the MARY TtS
Nikitas N. Karanikolas and Eleni Galiotou and Angela Ralli:
Towards a Unified Exploitation of Electronic Dialectal Corpora: Problems and Perspectives Tadej Justin and France Mihelič and Simon Dobrišek:
Intelligibility Assessment of the De-Identified Speech Obtained Using Phoneme Recognition and Speech Synthesis Systems
Anna Lisa Gentile and Ziqi Zhang and Fabio Ciravegna:
Self Training Wrapper Induction with Linked Data Jan Romportl:
Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley
Vojtěch Kovář:
Partial Grammar Checking for Czech Using the SET Parser

Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Petr Sojka Section Dialogue (Hall III)
chair: Jan Vanek
15:00 Richard Elling Moe:
Clustering in a News Corpus Filip Jurčíček and Ondřej Dušek and Ondřej Plátek and Lukáš Žilka:
Alex: a Statistical Dialogue Systems Framework
15:25 Jan Rygl:
Automatic Adaptation of Author’s Stylometric Features to Document Types Adam Chýlek and Jan Švec and Luboš Šmídl :
Two-layer Semantic Entity Detection and Utterance Validation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
15:50 Coffee Break (Lounge)
Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Petr Sojka Section Dialogue (Hall III)
chair: Jan Vanek
16:15 Daniel Devatman Hromada:
Comparative Study Concerning the Role of Surface Morphological Features in the Induction of Part-of-Speech Categories Marek Boháč and Karel Blavka:
Using Suprasegmental Information in Recognized Speech Punctuation Completion
16:40 Valery Solovyev and Vladimir Ivanov :
Dictionary-Based Problem Phrase Extraction from User Reviews Filip Jurčíček and Ondřej Dušek and Ondřej Plátek:
A Factored Discriminative Spoken Language Understanding for Spoken Dialogue Systems
17:10 Program Committee Meeting (Computer Room)
18:00 Guided Tour to Brno (info at Registration)
22:00

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Time Parallel Sessions (2 x 3)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Vladimir Benko Section Speech (Hall III)
chair: France Mihelic
09:00 Daniel Devatman Hromada:
Empiric Introduction to Light Stochastic Binarization Markéta Jůzová and Daniel Tihelka:
Tuning Limited Domain Speech Synthesis Using General TTS System
09:25 Zoltán Subecz:
Detection and Classification of Events in Hungarian Natural Language Texts David Guennec and Damien Lolive:
Unit Selection Cost Function Exploration Using an A* based Text-to-Speech System
09:50 Hamidreza Chinaei and Luc Lamontagne and François Laviolette and Richard Khoury:
A Topic Model Scoring Approach for Personalized QA Systems Daniel Tihelka and Jindřich Matoušek and Zdeněk Hanzlíček:
Modelling F0 Dynamics in Unit Selection Based Speech Synthesis
10:15 Coffee Break (Lounge)
Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
Section Text (Hall II)
chair: Jaroslava Hlavacova Section Speech (Hall III)
chair: Daniel Tihelka
10:45 Róbert Sabo and Štefan Beňuš:
Detecting Commas in Slovak Legal Texts Tomáš Valenta and Luboš Šmídl and Jan Švec and Daniel Soutner:
Inter-Annotator Agreement on Spontaneous Czech Language
11:10 Zuzana Nevěřilová:
Paraphrase and Textual Entailment Generation Aitor Álvarez and Pablo Ruiz and Haritz Arzelus:
Improving a Long Audio Aligner through Phone- relatedness Matrices for English, Spanish and Basque
11:35 Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:00 Trip and Conference Dinner
24:00

Friday, September 12, 2014

Time
9:30 Ralph Grishman and Yifan He:
An Information Extraction Customizer - invited talk (Hall II)
chair: Karel Pala
10:30 Coffee Break (Lounge)
Parallel Sessions (2 x 2)
Section Speech (Hall II)
chair: Vlasta Radova Section Text (Hall III)
chair: Justyna Walkowska
11:00 Josef V. Psutka and Aleš Pražák and Josef Psutka and Vlasta Radová :
Captioning of Live TV Commentaries from the Olympic Games in Sochi: Some Interesting Insights Andrey Kutuzov and Maria Kunilovskaya :
Russian Learner Translator Corpus:
11:25 Anthony Rousseau and Gilles Boulianne and Paul Deleglise and Yannick Esteve and Vishwa Gupta and Sylvain Meignier:
LIUM and CRIM ASR System Combination for the REPERE Evaluation Campaign Karel Pala and Ondřej Svoboda:
An Experiment with Theme-Rheme Identification
11:50 Closing Ceremony (Hall II)
12:00 Lunch Break (Restaurant)
13:00

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