Text, Speech and Dialogue 10th International Conference, TSD 200
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Václav Matoušek Pavel Mautner (Eds.)
Text, Speech and Dialogue 10th International Conference, TSD 2007 Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Václav Matoušek Pavel Mautner University of West Bohemia Department of Computer Science and Engineering Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic E-mail: {matousek; mautner}@kiv.zcu.cz
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933813
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.7, I.2, H.3, H.4, I.7 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-74627-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-74627-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The International Conference TSD 2007 presented state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the field of natural language processing. It declared its intent to be an interdisciplinary forum, intertwining research in speech and language processing with its applications in everyday practice. We feel that the mixture of different approaches and applications offered a great opportunity to get acquainted with the current activities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from developing countries too. The financial support of the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) enabled the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world. This year’s conference was the 10th event in the series on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, originated in 1998, and it was partially oriented towards language modeling, which was chosen as the main topic of the conference with the aim to celebrate the forthcoming 75th. birthday of the general chair of the conference Frederick Jelinek. All other invited speakers (Eva Hajiˇcov´a, Heinrich Niemann, Renato De Mori and David Nahamoo) read the lectures celebrating mainly the above mentioned jubilee of the founder of our conference. Also several appendant actions of the conference were dedicated to this c
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