Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Speech Processing

   1. Exploring the Structure of Broadcast News for Topic Segmentation

      • Rui Amaral, Isabel Trancoso

      Pages 1-12

   2. Application of Slope Filtering to Robust Spectral Envelope Extraction for Speech/Speaker Recognition

      • Szymon Drgas, Adam Dabrowski

      Pages 13-23

   3. Spoken Language Interface for Mobile Devices

      • João Freitas, António Calado, Maria João Barros, Miguel Sales Dias

      Pages 24-35

   4. A Study on Bilingual Speech Recognition Involving a Minority Language

      • Míriam Luján-Mares, Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Vicente Alabau

      Pages 36-49

   5. Annotated Corpus of Polish Spoken Dialogues

      • Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Krzysztof Marasek, Małgorzata Marciniak, Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska, Ryszard Gubrynowicz

      Pages 50-62

   6. Triphone Statistics for Polish Language

      • Bartosz Ziółko, Jakub Gałka, Suresh Manandhar, Richard C. Wilson, Mariusz Ziółko

      Pages 63-73

3. Computational Morphology

   1. ROG – A Paradigmatic Morphological Generator for Romanian

      • Elena Irimia

      Pages 74-84

   2. Building a Morphosyntactic Lexicon and a Pre-syntactic Processing Chain for Polish

      • Benoît Sagot

      Pages 85-95

   3. A Relational Model of Polish Inflection in Grammatical Dictionary of Polish

      • Marcin Woliński

      Pages 96-106

4. Parsing and Generation

   1. Syntactic Spreadsheets: In Search for a Human-Readable Representation of Parse Tree Forests

      • Janusz S. Bień

      Pages 107-117

   2. A Hybrid System for Named Entity Metonymy Resolution

      • Caroline Brun, Maud Ehrmann, Guillaume Jacquet

      Pages 118-130

   3. Spejd: A Shallow Processing and Morphological Disambiguation Tool

      • Aleksander Buczyński, Adam Przepiórkowski

      Pages 131-141

   4. Flexible Natural Language Generation in Multiple Contexts

      • Caroline Cullen, Ian O’Neill, Philip Hanna

      Pages 142-153

   5. A Measure of the Number of True Analogies between Chunks in Japanese

      • Yves Lepage, Julien Migeot, Erwan Guillerm

      Pages 154-164

   6. Shallow Parsing of Transcribed Speech of Estonian and Disfluency Detection

      • Kaili Müürisep, Helen Nigol

      Pages 165-177

   7. Mining Parsing Results for Lexical Correction: Toward a Complete Correction Process of Wide-Coverage Lexicons

      • Lionel Nicolas, Benoît Sagot, Miguel A. Molinero, Jacques Farré, Éric de La Clergerie

      Pages 178-191

   8. Efficient Parsing Using Recursive Transition Networks with Output

      • Javier M. Sastre-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada

      Pages 192-204

   9. The Deep Parser for Polish

      • Nina Suszczańska, Przemysław Szmal, Krzysztof Simiński

      Pages 205-217

5. Computational Semantics

   1. Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis

      • Shlomo Argamon, Kenneth Bloom, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani

      Pages 218-231

Half a centuryago not manypeople had realizedthat a new epoch in the history of homo sapiens had just started. The term “Information Society Age” seems an appropriate name for this epoch. Communication was without a doubt a lever of the conquest of the human race over the rest of the animate world. There is little doubt that the human racebegan when our predecessorsstarted to communicate with each other using language.This highly abstractmeans of communicationwas probably one of the major factors contributing to the evolutionary success of the human race within the animal world. Physically weak and imperfect, humans started to dominate the rest of the world through the creation of communication-based societies where individuals communicated initially to satisfy immediate needs, and then to create, accumulate and process knowledge for future use. The crucial step in the history of humanity was the invention of writing. It is worth noting that writing is a human invention, not a phenomenon resulting from natural evolution. Humans invented writing as a technique for recording speech as well as for storing and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Humans continue to be born illiterate, and therefore teaching and conscious supervised learning is necessary to maintain this basic social skill.

• Design
• Word
• algorithms
• computer linguistic
• filtering
• grammar
• machine translation
• morphosemantic
• natural language
• natural language parsing
• sentiment recognition
• speaker recognition
• speech interface
• speech recognition
• unsupervised learning

• Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

  Zygmunt Vetulani

• Language Technology Lab, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany

  Hans Uszkoreit