Computer Speech & Language, Volume 23

Volume 23, Number 1, January 2009

Bahram Vazirnezhad, Farshad Almasganj, Seyed Mohammad Ahadi:
Hybrid statistical pronunciation models designed to be trained by a medium-size corpus. 1-24
Sébastien Demange, Christophe Cerisara, Jean Paul Haton:
Missing data mask estimation with frequency and temporal dependencies. 25-41
Sankaran Panchapagesan, Abeer Alwan:
Frequency warping for VTLN and speaker adaptation by linear transformation of standard MFCC. 42-64
Tobias Cincarek, Rainer Gruhn, Christian Hacker, Elmar Nöth, Satoshi Nakamura:
Automatic pronunciation scoring of words and sentences independent from the non-native's first language. 65-88
Sarah E. Petersen, Mari Ostendorf:
A machine learning approach to reading level assessment. 89-106
Hasan Mesut Meral, Bülent Sankur, A. Sumru Özsoy, Tunga Güngör, Emre Sevinç:
Natural language watermarking via morphosyntactic alterations. 107-125
Mohamed Abdel Fattah, Fuji Ren:
GA, MR, FFNN, PNN and GMM based models for automatic text summarization. 126-144

Jun Cai, Ghazi Bouselmi, Yves Laprie, Jean Paul Haton:
Efficient likelihood evaluation and dynamic Gaussian selection for HMM-based speech recognition. 147-164
Wei-Ho Tsai, Hsin-Min Wang:
Evolutionary minimization of the Rand index for speaker clustering. 165-175
Arindam Mandal, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke:
Improving robustness of MLLR adaptation with speaker-clustered regression class trees. 176-199
W. J. Smit, E. Barnard:
Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding. 200-219
Christophe Cerisara:
Automatic discovery of topics and acoustic morphemes from speech. 220-239
K. Sreenivasa Rao, B. Yegnanarayana:
Intonation modeling for Indian languages. 240-256

Imed Zitouni, Ruhi Sarikaya:
Arabic diacritic restoration approach based on maximum entropy models. 257-276
Sergio Rafael Coria Olguin, Luis Alberto Pineda:
An analysis of prosodic information for the recognition of dialogue acts in a multimodal corpus in Mexican Spanish. 277-310
Yilmaz Kiliçaslan, Edip Serdar Güner, Savas Yildirim:
Learning-based pronoun resolution for Turkish with a comparative evaluation. 311-331
Dan Bohus, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
The RavenClaw dialog management framework: Architecture and systems. 332-361
Marta R. Costa-Jussà, José A. R. Fonollosa:
An Ngram-based reordering model. 362-375
Yi-Hsiang Chao, Wei-Ho Tsai, Hsin-Min Wang:
Improving GMM-UBM speaker verification using discriminative feedback adaptation. 376-388
Jinyu Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero:
A unified framework of HMM adaptation with joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions. 389-405

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan:
Combining lexical, syntactic and prosodic cues for improved online dialog act tagging. 407-422
Jinsik Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee:
A data-driven grapheme-to-phoneme conversion method using dynamic contextual converting rules for Korean TTS systems. 423-434
Thomas Niesler, Febe de Wet:
The effect of code-mixing on accent identification accuracy. 435-443
Connie R. Adsett, Yannick Marchand, Vlado Keselj:
Syllabification rules versus data-driven methods in a language with low syllabic complexity: The case of Italian. 444-463
Guodong Zhou, Longhua Qian, Qiaoming Zhu:
Label propagation via bootstrapped support vectors for semantic relation extraction between named entities. 464-478
Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyungduk Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Gary Geunbae Lee:
Data-driven user simulation for automated evaluation of spoken dialog systems. 479-509
Paul R. Dixon, Tasuku Oonishi, Sadaoki Furui:
Harnessing graphics processors for the fast computation of acoustic likelihoods in speech recognition. 510-526
Michael Levit, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür, Daniel Gillick:
IXIR: A statistical information distillation system. 527-542