Table of Contents

• Speech Technology Opportunities and ChallengesDavid Nahamoo. 1 [doi]
• No More Strings, pleaseKevin Knight. 2 [doi]
• Information Extraction from speechJohn Makhoul. 3 [doi]
• Graph-Based Methods for Language Processing and Information RetrievalDragomir R. Radev. 4 [doi]
• Voice-activated Question AnsweringDan I. Moldovan. 5 [doi]
• Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Dialog SystemsMichael F. McTear. 6 [doi]
• Applications of spoken Language Technology and SystemsMike Phillips. 7 [doi]
• Using POMDPs for Dialog ManagementSteve Young. 8-13 [doi]
• Understanding and Modeling Communication ScenesHervé Bourlard. 14 [doi]
• Widening the NLP Pipeline for spoken Language ProcessingSrinivas Bangalore. 15 [doi]
• Recent Advances in Automatic speech SummarizationSadaoki Furui. 16-21 [doi]
• A Novel DTW-Based Distance Measure for speaker SegmentationAlex Park, James R. Glass. 22-25 [doi]
• Improved Summarization of Chinese spoken Documents by Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) with Further Analysis and Integrated ScoringSheng-yi Kong, Lin-Shan Lee. 26-29 [doi]
• Domain-Independent Topic Segmentation Using a String Kernel on Recognized Sub-Word SequencesKen Sadohara, Shi-wook Lee, Hiroaki Kojima. 30-33 [doi]
• Summarization of spoken Lectures Based on Linguistic Surface and prosodic InformationShingo Togashi, Masaru Yamaguchi, Seiichi Nakagawa. 34-37 [doi]
• Simulation Analysis for Interactive Retrieval of spoken Documents with Key Terms Ranked by Reinforcement LearningYi-Cheng Pan, Lin-Shan Lee. 38-41 [doi]
• Discriminatively Trained spoken Document Similarity Models and their Application to Probabilistic Latent Semantic AnalysisKishan Thambiratnam, Frank Seide, Peng Yu. 42-45 [doi]
• Integration of Metadata in spoken Document Search Using Position Specific Posterior laticesJorge Silva, Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero. 46-49 [doi]
• Just-in-Time Latent Semantic Adaptation on Language Model for Chinese speech Recognition Using Web DataQin Gao, Xiaojun Lin, Xihong Wu. 50-53 [doi]
• The (Non)Utility of Linguistic Features for Predicting prominence in spontaneous speechJason M. Brenier, Ani Nenkova, Anubha Kothari, Laura Whitton, David Beaver, Dan Jurafsky. 54-57 [doi]
• Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of speechDustin Hillard, Zhongqiang Huang, Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary P. Harper, Mari Ostendorf, Wen Wang. 58-61 [doi]
• Spoken QA Based on a Passage Retrieval EngineEmilio Sanchis, Davide Buscaldi, Sergio Grau, Lluís F. Hurtado, David Griol. 62-65 [doi]
• Jointly Predicting Dialog Act and Named Entity for spoken Language UnderstandingMinwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee. 66-69 [doi]
• Dialogue-Act Tagging Using Smart Feature Selection; Results on Multiple CorporaDaan Verbree, Rutger Rienks, Dirk Heylen. 70-73 [doi]
• Acoustic-Syntactic Maximum Entropy Model for Automatic prosody LabelingVivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Shrikanth Narayanan, Srinivas Bangalore. 74-77 [doi]
• A DBN-Based Multi-Level Stochastic spoken Language Understanding SystemFabrice Lefevre. 78-81 [doi]
• Spoken Opinion Extraction for Detecting Variations in User SatisfactionFrédéric Béchet, Géraldine Damnati, Nathalie Camelin, Renato de Mori. 82-85 [doi]
• Unsupervised Combination of Metrics for Semantic Class InductionElias Iosif, Athanasios Tegos, Apostolos Pangos, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Alexandros Potamianos. 86-89 [doi]
• Parse Structure and Segmentation for Improving speech RecognitionWilliam P. McNeill, Jeremy G. Kahn, Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf. 90-93 [doi]
• Model Adaptation for Dialog Act TaggingGökhan Tür, Ümit Güz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür. 94-97 [doi]
• Automatic Topic Segmentation and Labeling in Multiparty DialoguePei-yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore. 98-101 [doi]
• Model Adaptation for Sentence Segmentation from speechSébastien Cuendet, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür. 102-105 [doi]
• On the Effect Ofword Error Rate on Automated Quality MonitoringGeorge Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Geoffrey Zweig. 106-109 [doi]
• Exploiting Word-level Features for Emotion PredictionGreg Nicholas, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman. 110-113 [doi]
• Missing data ASR with fusion of features and combination of recognizersNeil Joshi, Ling Guan. 114-117 [doi]
• Communication with Robots: Evidence from a Web-Based Experiment on Human-Computer InteractionPetra Gieselmann, Prisca Stenneken. 118-121 [doi]
• Unified Training of Wfsa through a Generic InterfaceMikel Peñagarikano, Germán Bordel, Luis Javier Rodríguez. 122-125 [doi]
• Structural Representation of the pronunciation and its Use for CallNobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Keikichi Hirose. 126-129 [doi]
• Context-Sensitive Language Modeling for Large Sets of Proper Nouns in Multimodal Dialogue SystemsAlexander Gruenstein, Stephanie Seneff. 130-133 [doi]
• A Multimodal Architecture for Home Control by Disabled UsersGuillermo Pérez, J. Gabriel Amores, Pilar Manchón Portillo. 134-137 [doi]
• Modelling the Global acoustic Correlates of Expressivity for Chinese Text-to-speech SynthesisHongwu Yang, Helen M. Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Lianhong Cai. 138-141 [doi]
• Blending speech and Visual Input in Multimodal Dialogue SystemsManolis Perakakis, Michail Toutoudakis, Alexandros Potamianos. 142-145 [doi]
• Dynamic Vocabulary Adaptation for a daily and real-time Broadcast News Transcription SystemCiro Martins, António Texeira, João Paulo Neto. 146-149 [doi]
• Shaping to convergence: Experiments with speech GraffitiStefanie Tomko, Roni Rosenfeld. 150-153 [doi]
• An Asynchronous DBN for Audio-Visual speech RecognitionKate Saenko, Karen Livescu. 154-157 [doi]
• An acoustic Doppler-Based Front End for Hands Free spoken User InterfacesKaustubh Kalgaonkar, Bhiksha Raj. 158-161 [doi]
• Graphical Model Representations of Word LatticesGang Ji, Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff, Chris Manning. 162-165 [doi]
• Audio-Visual Biometric Recognition by Vector QuantizationAmitava Das, Prasanta Ghosh. 166-169 [doi]
• Online Supervised Learning of Non-Understanding Recovery PoliciesDan Bohus, Brian Langner, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 170-173 [doi]
• Dialogue Context-Based Re-Ranking of ASR HypothesesRebecca Jonson. 174-177 [doi]
• Evaluating Effectiveness and Portability of Reinforcement Learned Dialogue Strategies with Real Users: the Talk Towninfo EvaluationOliver Lemon, Kallirroi Georgila, James Henderson. 178-181 [doi]
• Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Strategies with Hierarchical Abstract MachinesHeriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira. 182-185 [doi]
• An Analysis of Automatic Content Selection Algorithms for spoken Dialogue System SummariesJoseph Polifroni, Marilyn A. Walker. 186-189 [doi]
• Using logistic Regression to Initialise Reinforcement-Learning-Based Dialogue SystemsVerena Rieser, Oliver Lemon. 190-193 [doi]
• Chat and Goal-Oriented Dialog Together: a Unified Example-Based Architecture for Multi-Domain Dialog ManagementCheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung, Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee. 194-197 [doi]
• Value-Based Optimal Decision for Dialog SystemsEsther Levin, Roberto Pieraccini. 198-201 [doi]
• A spoken Dialog System with Automatic Recovery Mechanism from misrecognitionNorihide Kitaoka, Hirotoshi Yano, Seiichi Nakagawa. 202-205 [doi]
• Interaction in Task-Oriented Human-Human Dialogue: the Effects of Different turn-Taking PoliciesRaquel Fernández, Tatjana Lucht, Kepa Joseba Rodríguez, David Schlangen. 206-209 [doi]
• Dialog Systems for Surveys: the Rate-a-Course SystemAmanda Stent, Svetlana Stenchikova, Matthew Marge. 210-213 [doi]
• Planning and Logic Programming for Dialog ManagementPaul Fodor, Juan M. Huerta. 214-217 [doi]
• Let's Discoh: Collecting an Annotated Open Corpuswith Dialogue Acts and Reward signals for Natural Language HelpdesksGiovanni Andreani, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Mazin Gilbert, Daniel Gillick, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Oliver Lemon. 218-221 [doi]
• Towards speech Translation of Non Written LanguagesLaurent Besacier, Bowen Zhou, Yuqing Gao. 222-225 [doi]
• Folsom: a Fast and Memory-Efficient Phrase-Based Approach to Statistical Machine TranslationBowen Zhou, Stanley F. Chen, Yuqing Gao. 226-229 [doi]
• Automatic Learning of Chinese English Semantic Structure MappingPascale Fung, Zhaojun Wu, Yongsheng Yang, Dekai Wu. 230-233 [doi]
• Inversion transduction Grammar Coverage of Arabic-English Word Alignment for Tree-Structured Statistical Machine TranslationDekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Yihai Shen. 234-237 [doi]
• Syntactic Phrase-Based Statistical Machine TranslationHany Hassan, Mary Hearne, Andy Way, Khalil Sima'an. 238-241 [doi]
• Reordering Experiments for n-Gram-Based SMTJosep Maria Crego, José B. Mariño. 242-245 [doi]
• Machine Translation System Development Based on Human LikenessPatrik Lambert, Jesús Giménez, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Enrique Amigó, Rafael E. Banchs, Lluís Màrquez, José A. Rodriguez-Fonollosa. 246-249 [doi]
• Experimental Facility for Measuring the Impact of Environmental noise and speaker Variation on speech-to-speech Translation DevicesDouglas A. Jones, Arvind Jairam, Wade Shen, Paul D. Gatewood, John D. Tardelli, Michael Emonts. 250-253 [doi]
• Design and Evaluation of the 2006 BBN English/Iraqi Two-Way speech Translation SystemDavid Stallard, Fred Choi, Kriste Krstovski, Prem Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Shirin Saleem, Raid Suleiman. 254-257 [doi]
• Integrating Text and phonetic Information for Robust Statistical speech TranslationLiang Gu, Yonggang Deng, Wei Zhang, Yuqing Gao. 258-261 [doi]