Text Speech and Dialogue : 7th International Conference TSD 2004 Brno Czech Republic September 8 11 2004. Proceedings 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