Text, Speech and Dialogue - 8th International Conference, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 12-15, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)

TheInternationalConferenceTSD 2005, the8theventin theseriesonText, Speech, and Dialogue, which originated in 1998, presented state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in the ?eld 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 act- ities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from developing countries too. The ?nancial support of the ISCA (Inter- tional Speech Communication Association) enabled the wide attendance of researchers from all active regions of the world. Thisyear sconferencewaspartiallyorientedtowardsmulti-modalhuman-computer interaction (HCI), which can be seen as the most attractive topic of HCI at the present time. In this way, we are involved in a rich complex of communicative activity, facial expressions, hand gestures, direction of gaze, to name but the most obvious ones. The interpretationof each user utterancedependson the context, prosody, facial expressions (e. g. brows raised, brows and gaze both raised) and gestures. Hearers have to adapt to the speaker (e. g. maintainingthe theme of the conversation, smiling etc. ). Research into the interaction of these channels is however limited, often focusing on the interaction between a pair of channels. Six signi?cant scienti?c results achieved in this area in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and the Czech Republic were presented by keynote speakers in special plenary sessions. Further, appr

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3658
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	2005
Editors:	Vaclav Matousek • Pavel Mautner • Tomas Pavelka
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	460
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-28789-6
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Natural language & machine translation
LSN:	3-540-28789-2
Barcode:	9783540287896

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