Text -- A Common Solution for Tokenization and Part-of-Speech Tagging -- Rule Parser for Arabic Stemmer -- Achieving an Almost Correct PoS-Tagged Corpus -- Evaluation of a Japanese Sentence Compression Method Based on Phrase Significance and Inter-Phrase Dependency -- User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module -- The Role of WSD for Multilingual Natural Language Applications -- Gibbsian Context-Free Grammar for Parsing -- Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project -- Using Salient Words to Perform Categorization of Web Sites -- Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Hungarian Sign Language -- Dependency Analyser Configurable by Measures -- The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks -- Filtering of Large Numbers of Unstructured Text Documents by the Developed Tool TEA -- Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning -- Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese -- Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System -- Word Sense vs. Word Domain Disambiguation: A Maximum Entropy Approach -- Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval -- Valency Lexicon for Czech: From Verbs to Nouns -- Term Clustering Using a Corpus-Based Similarity Measure -- Word Sense Discrimination for Czech -- Tools for Semi-automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns -- Speech -- Automatic Lexical Stress Assignment of Unknown Words for Highly Inflected Slovenian Language -- German and Czech Speech Synthesis Using HMM-Based Speech Segment Database -- Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures -- Strategies for Developing a Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Czech Language -- Comparative Study on Bigram Language Models for Spoken Czech Recognition -- Integration of Speech Recognition and Automatic Lip-Reading -- Utterance Verification Based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths -- Rejection Technique Based on the Mumble Model -- Efficient Noise Estimation and Its Application for Robust Speech Recognition -- AlfaNum System for Speech Synthesis in Serbian Language -- Speech Features Extraction Using Cone-Shaped Kernel Distribution -- Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments -- On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis -- An Analysis of Limited Domains for Speech Synthesis -- Advances in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Recognition and Synthesis Techniques -- A Comparison of Different Approaches to Automatic Speech Segmentation -- Keyword Spotting Using Support Vector Machines -- Automatic Parameter Estimation for a Context-Independent Speech Segmentation Algorithm -- Phoneme Lattice Based A* Search Algorithm for Speech Recognition -- Heuristic and Statistical Methods for Speech/Non-speech Detector Design -- An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue -- Some Like It Gaussian. . . -- Kernel Springy Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to a Phonological Awareness Teaching System -- Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models -- Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms -- Speech Enhancement Using Mixtures of Gaussians for Speech and Noise -- Fitting German into N-Gram Language Models -- Audio Collections of Endangered Arctic Languages in the Russian Federation -- Dialogue -- Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments -- Statistical Decision Making from Text and Dialogue Corpora for Effective Plan Recognition -- Natural Language Guided Dialogues for Accessing theWeb -- Evaluating a Probabilistic Dialogue Model for a Railway Information Task -- Applying Dialogue Constraints to the Understanding Process in a Dialogue System -- Evaluation of Prediction Methods Applied to an Inflected Language -- Knowledge Based Speech Interfacing for Handhelds -- Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems -- Strategies to Overcome Problematic Input in a Spanish Dialogue System -- Dialogue Systems and Planning -- A Flexible Framework for Evaluation of New Algorithms for Dialogue Systems -- From HTML to VoiceXML: A First Approach -- Voice Chat with a Virtual Character: The Good Soldier Švejk Case Project -- Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain -- A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People -- Enhancing Best Analysis Selection and Parser Comparison.