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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

5729

Václav Matoušek Pavel Mautner (Eds.)

Text, Speech and Dialogue 12th International Conference, TSD 2009 Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Václav Matoušek Pavel Mautner University of West Bohemia at Pilsen Department of Computer Science and Engineering E-mail:{matousek, mautner}@kiv.zcu.cz

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933673

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, J.5, H.5.2, I.2.7, I.2.6, H.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-642-04207-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-04207-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

TSD 2009 was the 12th event in the series of International Conferences on Text, Speech and Dialogue supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ˇ and Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI). This year, TSD was held in Plzeˇn (Pilsen), in the Primavera Conference Center, during September 13–17, 2009 and it was organized by the University of West Bohemia in Plzeˇn in cooperation with Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic. Like its predecessors, TSD 2009 highlighted to both the academic and scientific world the importance of text and speech processing and its most recent breakthroughs in current applications. Both experienced researchers and professionals as well as newcomers to the text and speech processing field, interested in designing or evaluating interactive software, developing new interaction technologies, or investigating overarching theories of text and speech processing found in the TSD conference a forum to communicate with people sharing similar interests. The conference is 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 current activities in all aspects of language communication a