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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2004, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004.The 78 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as information retrieval, the semantic Web, algorithmic learning, classification and clustering, speaker recognition and verification, and dialogue management.
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
3206
Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Petr Sojka Karel Pala (Eds.)
Text, Speech and Dialogue 7th International Conference, TSD 2004 Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-11, 2004 Proceedings
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Preface
This volume contains the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004, under the auspices of the Masa