HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES — THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVE
Riga, Latvia, October 7–8, 2010
ACCEPTED PAPERS
Overview
Developing the Human Language Technology Infrastructure in Lithuania Rūta Marcinkevičienė and Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė
National Programme for Estonian Language Technology: a Pre-final Summary Einar Meister, Jaak Vilo and Neeme Kahusk
Language Resources and Technology for the Humanities in Latvia (2004–2010) Inguna Skadiņa, Ilze Auziņa, Normunds Grūzītis, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Gunta Nešpore, Raivis Skadiņš, Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Speech Technologies and Spoken Corpus
Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus: Culture and Age in Selecting Corpus Testers Rene Altrov and Hille Pajupuu
Estonian Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System for Radiology Tanel Alumäe and Einar Meister
Towards Spoken Latvian Corpus: Current Situation, Methodology and Development Ilze Auziņa
Remarks on the Duration of Lithuanian Consonants in a Continuous Speech Sigita Dereškevičiūtė and Asta Kazlauskienė
Modelling the Temporal Structure of Estonian Speech Mari-Liis Kalvik and Meelis Mihkla
An Audio System of Electronic Texts for the Visually Impaired People and Perception of Different Speech Rates by the the Blind and the Sighted Meelis Mihkla, Indrek Hein, Indrek Kiissel, Margit Orusaar and Artur Räpp
Latvian Text-to-Speech Synthesizer Mārcis Pinnis and Ilze Auzina
Using Dependency Grammar Features in Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Models for Speech Recognition Teemu Ruokolainen, Tanel Alumäe and Marcus Dobrinkat
Spoken and Written Dialog
Internet Commentators as Dialogue Participants: Coherence Achieved through Membership Categorization Tiit Hennoste, Olga Gerassimenko, Riina Kasterpalu, Kirsi Laanesoo, Anni Oja, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson and Mare Koit
Uncertainty in Spoken Dialogue Management Kristiina Jokinen
Human-Computer Interaction in Estonian: Collection and Analysis of Simulated Dialogues Siiri Pärkson
A Framework for Asynchronous Dialogue Systems Margus Treumuth
Machine Translation
SMT of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian Languages: a Comparative Study Maxim Khalilov, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Natalja Kuvaldina and Veronika Pereseina
Improving SMT for Baltic Languages with Factored Models Raivis Skadiņš, Kārlis Goba and Valters Šics
LetsMT! Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tatiana Gornostay and Raivis Skadiņš
Language Resources
The Estonian Reference Corpus: Its Composition and Morphology-aware User Interface Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek, Kristel Uiboaed and Kaarel Veskis
Adaptive Automatic Mark-up Tool for Legacy Dictionaries Lauma Pretkalniņa and Ilze Millere
Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language - the Standardised Way Erika Rimkutė, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Vida Melninkaitė, Andrius Utka and Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė
A Collection of Comparable Corpora for Under-resourced Languages Inguna Skadiņa, Ahmet Aker, Voula Giouli, Dan Tufis, Robert Gaizauskas, Madara Mieriņa and Nikos Mastropavlos
The Database of Estonian Word Families: a Language Technology Resource Ülle Viks, Silvi Vare and Heete Sahkai
Digitization of Historical Texts at the National Library of Latvia Arturs Zogla and Jurgis Skilters
Semantics
Verbalizing Ontologies in Controlled Baltic Languages Normunds Grūzītis, Gunta Nešpore and Baiba Saulīte
Enriching Estonian WordNet with Derivations and Semantic Relations Neeme Kahusk, Kadri Kerner and Kadri Vider
Main Trends in Semantic-Research of Estonian Language Technology Haldur Õim, Heili Orav, Kadri Kerner and Neeme Kahusk
Semantic Analysis of Sentences: The Estonian Experience Haldur Õim, Heili Orav, Neeme Kahusk and Piia Taremaa
Methods and Tools for Language Processing
An Ensemble of Classifiers Methodology for Stemming in Inflectional Languages: Using the Example of Latvian Steffen Eger and Ineta Sējāne
Using Syllables As Indexing Terms in Full-Text Information Retrieval Kimmo Kettunen, Paul McNamee and Feza Baskaya
Cloud Computing for the Humanities: Two Approaches for Language Technology Graham Wilcock
Comparison of the SemTi-Kamols and Tesniere's Dependency Grammars Gunta Nešpore, Baiba Saulīte, Guntis Bārzdiņš and Normunds Grūzītis