Chinese Spoken Language Processing : 5th International Symposium, ISCSLP 2006, Singapore, December 13-16, 2006, Proceedings

Plenary.- Interactive Computer Aids for Acquiring Proficiency in Mandarin.- The Affective and Pragmatic Coding of Prosody.- Challenges in Machine Translation.- Automatic Indexing and Retrieval of Large Broadcast News Video Collections – The TRECVID Experience.- Tutorial.- An HMM-Based Approach to Flexible Speech Synthesis.- Text Information Extraction and Retrieval.- Topics in Speech Science.- Mechanisms of Question Intonation in Mandarin.- Comparison of Perceived Prosodic Boundaries and Global Characteristics of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours in Mandarin Speech.- Linguistic Markings of Units in Spontaneous Mandarin.- Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Focal Accents of Disyllabic Words in Standard Chinese.- Focus, Lexical Stress and Boundary Tone: Interaction of Three Prosodic Features.- Speech Analysis.- A Robust Voice Activity Detection Based on Noise Eigenspace Projection.- Pitch Mean Based Frequency Warping.- A Study of Knowledge-Based Features for Obstruent Detection and Classification in Continuous Mandarin Speech.- Speaker-and-Environment Change Detection in Broadcast News Using Maximum Divergence Common Component GMM.- UBM Based Speaker Segmentation and Clustering for 2-Speaker Detection.- Design of Cubic Spline Wavelet for Open Set Speaker Classification in Marathi.- Speech Synthesis and Generation.- Rhythmic Organization of Mandarin Utterances — A Two-Stage Process.- Prosodic Boundary Prediction Based on Maximum Entropy Model with Error-Driven Modification.- Prosodic Words Prediction from Lexicon Words with CRF and TBL Joint Method.- Prosodic Word Prediction Using a Maximum Entropy Approach.- Predicting Prosody from Text.- Nonlinear Emotional Prosody Generation and Annotation.- A Unified Framework for Text Analysis in Chinese TTS.- Speech Synthesis Based on a Physiological Articulatory Model.- An HMM-Based Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech System.- HMM-Based Emotional Speech Synthesis Using Average Emotion Model.- A Hakka Text-To-Speech System.- Speech Enhancement.- Adaptive Null-Forming Algorithm with Auditory Sub-bands.- Multi-channel Noise Reduction in Noisy Environments.- Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition.- Minimum Phone Error (MPE) Model and Feature Training on Mandarin Broadcast News Task.- State-Dependent Phoneme-Based Model Merging for Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition.- Non-uniform Kernel Allocation Based Parsimonious HMM.- Consistent Modeling of the Static and Time-Derivative Cepstrums for Speech Recognition Using HSPTM.- Robust Speech Recognition.- Vector Autoregressive Model for Missing Feature Reconstruction.- Auditory Contrast Spectrum for Robust Speech Recognition.- Signal Trajectory Based Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition.- An HMM Compensation Approach Using Unscented Transformation for Noisy Speech Recognition.- Noisy Speech Recognition Performance of Discriminative HMMs.- Distributed Speech Recognition of Mandarin Digits String.- Speech Adaptation/Normalization.- Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using Reference Speaker Weighting.- Automatic Construction of Regression Class Tree for MLLR Via Model-Based Hierarchical Clustering.- General Topics in Speech Recognition.- A Minimum Boundary Error Framework for Automatic Phonetic Segmentation.- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.- Advances in Mandarin Broadcast Speech Transcription at IBM Under the DARPA GALE Program.- Improved Large Vocabulary Continuous Chinese Speech Recognition by Character-Based Consensus Networks.- All-Path Decoding Algorithm for Segmental Based Speech Recognition.- Improved Mandarin Speech Recognition by Lattice Rescoring with Enhanced Tone Models.- On Using Entropy Information to Improve Posterior Probability-Based Confidence Measures.- Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: The FLaVoR Approach.- Multilingual Recognition and Identification.- Language Identification by Using Syllable-Based Duration Classification on Code-Switching Speech.- Speaker Recognition and Characterization.- CCC Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2006: Overview, Methods, Data, Results and Perspective.- The IIR Submission to CSLP 2006 Speaker Recognition Evaluation.- A Novel Alternative Hypothesis Characterization Using Kernel Classifiers for LLR-Based Speaker Verification.- Speaker Verification Using Complementary Information from Vocal Source and Vocal Tract.- ISCSLP SR Evaluation, UVA–CS_es System Description. A System Based on ANNs.- Evaluation of EMD-Based Speaker Recognition Using ISCSLP2006 Chinese Speaker Recognition Evaluation Corpus.- Integrating Complementary Features with a Confidence Measure for Speaker Identification.- Discriminative Transformation for Sufficient Adaptation in Text-Independent Speaker Verification.- Fusion of Acoustic and Tokenization Features for Speaker Recognition.- Spoken Language Understanding.- Contextual Maximum Entropy Model for Edit Disfluency Detection of Spontaneous Speech.- Human Language Acquisition, Development and Learning.- Automatic Detection of Tone Mispronunciation in Mandarin.- Towards Automatic Tone Correction in Non-native Mandarin.- Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems.- A Corpus-Based Approach for Cooperative Response Generation in a Dialog System.- A Cantonese Speech-Driven Talking Face Using Translingual Audio-to-Visual Conversion.- The Implementation of Service Enabling with Spoken Language of a Multi-modal System Ozone.- Spoken Correction for Chinese Text Entry.- Speech Data Mining and Document Retrieval.- Extractive Chinese Spoken Document Summarization Using Probabilistic Ranking Models.- Meeting Segmentation Using Two-Layer Cascaded Subband Filters.- A Multi-layered Summarization System for Multi-media Archives by Understanding and Structuring of Chinese Spoken Documents.- Initial Experiments on Automatic Story Segmentation in Chinese Spoken Documents Using Lexical Cohesion of Extracted Named Entities.- Machine Translation of Speech.- Some Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation.- Automatic Spoken Language Translation Template Acquisition Based on Boosting Structure Extraction and Alignment.- Spoken Language Resources and Annotation.- HKUST/MTS: A Very Large Scale Mandarin Telephone Speech Corpus.- The Paradigm for Creating Multi-lingual Text-To-Speech Voice Databases.- Multilingual Speech Corpora for TTS System Development.- Construct Trilingual Parallel Corpus on Demand.- The Contribution of Lexical Resources to Natural Language Processing of CJK Languages.- Multilingual Spoken Language Corpus Development for Communication Research.- Development of Multi-lingual Spoken Corpora of Indian Languages.