I Iberian SLTech
Selected Posters

 

Systems & Applications


 

A task-independent stochastic dialog manager for the EDECAN project

Francisco Torres Goterris

Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

 

Terminology extraction from English-Portuguese and English-Galician parallel corpora based on probabilistic translation dictionaries and bilingual syntactic patterns

Alberto Simões

Department of Computer Science, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Xavier Gómez Guinovart

Department of Translation and Linguistics, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

 

A Hierarchical Architecture for Audio Segmentation in a Broadcast News Task

Mateu Aguilo, Taras Butko, Andrey Temko, & Climent Nadeu

 Department of Signal Theory and Communications, TALP Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Browsing Multilingual Making-Ofs

Carlos Teixeira

LASIGE, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Ana Respício

OR Center, DI, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Catarina Ribeiro

LASIGE, University of Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

Resources & Tools


 

A Catalan Broadcast Conversational Speech Database

Henrik Schulz & José A. R. Fonollosa

Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain

 

An XML Resource Definition for Spoken Document Retrieval

Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Germán Bordel, Arantza Casillas, Mikel Penagarikano & Amparo Varona

 Grupo de Trabajo en Tecnologías Software (GTTS), Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

 

CORPOR System: Corpora of the Portuguese Language as spoken in São Paulo

Zilda Zapparoli

Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil

 

Machine Translation of the Penn Treebank to Spanish

Martha Alicia Rocha

Departamento de Sistemas y Computación, Instituto Tecnológico de León, México

Joan Andreu Sánchez

Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

 

Adapting the Unisyn Lexicon to Portuguese: Preliminary issues in the development of LUPo

Simone Ashby, José Pedro Ferreira & Sílvia Barbosa

Instituto da Linguística Teórica e Computacional (ILTEC), Portugal

 

Speech Recognition


 

A Baseline System for the Transcription of Catalan Broadcast Conversation

Henrik Schulz & José A. R. Fonollosa

Department of Signal Theory and Communications,  Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain

David Rybach

Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition,  RWTH Aachen University, Germany

 

A Fast Discriminative Training Algorithm for Minimum Classification Error

B. Silva, H. Mendes, C. Lopes, A. Veiga & F. Perdigão

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FCTUC, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Polo II,  University of Coimbra, Portugal

 

Global Discriminative Training of a Hybrid Speech Recognizer

Carla Lopes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FCTUC,  Instituto de Telecomunicações, Polo II,  University of Coimbra, Portugal

& Instituto Politécnico de Leiria-ESTG, Portugal

Fernando Perdigão

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FCTUC,  Instituto de Telecomunicações, Polo II,  University of Coimbra, Portugal

 

Towards Microphone Selection Based on Room Impulse Response Energy-Related Measures

Martin Wolf  & Climent Nadeu

 TALP Research Center, Department of Signal Theory and Communications,  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Speech Synthesis


 

Towards an Objective Voice Preference Definition for the Portuguese Language

Luis Coelho

ESEIG, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Horst-Udo Hain & Oliver Jokisch

Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, TU Dresden, Germany

Daniela Braga

Microsoft Language Development Center, Microsoft, Portugal

 

A Detailed Analysis and Comparison of Speech Synthesis Paradigms

Luis Coelho

ESEIG, Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Daniela Braga

Microsoft Language Development Center, Microsoft, Portugal

Carmen Garcia-Mateo

Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, University of Vigo, Spain

 

 

Gender, Speaker & Language Recognition


 

Detection of Children's Voices

Rui Martins & Isabel Trancoso

IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory - INESC ID Lisboa, Portugal

Alberto Abad & Hugo Meinedo

L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory - INESC ID Lisboa, Portugal

 

Unsupervised SVM based 2-Speaker Clustering

Binda Celestino, Hugo Cordeiro & Carlos Meneses Ribeiro

Multimedia and Machine Learning Group, Department of Electronic Telecommunication and Computer Engineering,  Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal

 

Speaker Verification with Shifted Delta Cepstral Features: Its Pseudo-Prosodic Behavior

Dayana Ribas González & José R. Calvo de Lara

Advanced Technologies Application Center, CENATAV, Cuba

 

Multilevel and channel-compensated language recognition: ATVS-UAM systems at NIST LRE 2009

Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, Javier Franco-Pedroso, Daniel Ramos, Doroteo T. Toledano & Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

 ATVS Biometric Recognition Group, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

 

 Language Processing


 

Bilingual Example Segmentation based on Markers Hypothesis

Alberto Simões & José João Almeida

Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

 

Automatic Recovery of Punctuation Marks and Capitalization Information for Iberian Languages 

Fernando Batista

DCTI, Institute of Science, Technology and Management, Portugal

L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory - INESC ID Lisboa, Portugal

Isabel Trancoso & Nuno Mamede

IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory - INESC ID Lisboa, Portugal