Text, Speech and Dialogue
Subtitle: 5th International Conference, TSD 2002, Brno, Czech Republic September 9-12, 2002. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Contributors: Petr Sojka (Editor); Ivan Kopecek (Editor); Karel Pala (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9783540441298
Subjects: Natural language & machine translation; Congresses; Computers; Computers - General Information; Natural language processing (C; Computer Books: General; Natural Language Processing (Computer Science); General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Natural Language Processing; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; algorithmic learning; information extraction; information retrieval; nlp; semantic web; speech perception; speech processing; speech recognition
Description: The Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD) Conference 2002, it should be noticed, is now being held for the ?fth time and we are pleased to observe that in its short history it has turned out to be an international forum successfully intertwining the basic ?elds of NLP. It is our strong hope that the conference contributes to a better understanding between researchers from the various areas and promotes more intensive mutual cooperation. So far the communication between man and computers has displayed a one-way nature, humans have to know how the - chines work and only then can they “understand” them. The opposite, however, is still quite far from being real, our understanding of how our “user-friendly” computers can understand us humans is not deep enough yet. A lot of work has to be done both in the near and distant future. Let TSD 2002 be a modest contribution to this goal. The conference also serves well in its second purpose: to facilitate researchers meeting in the NLP ?eld from Western and Eastern Europe. Moreover, many participants now come from other parts of the world, thus making TSD a real crossroadsforresearchersintheNLParea. Thisvolumecontainstheproceedings of this conference held in Brno, September 9–12, 2002. We were honored to have as keynote speakers James Pustejovsky from Brandeis University, and Ronald Cole from the University of Colorado. We would like to thank all the Program Committee members and external reviewers for their conscientious and diligent reviewing work.