Invited Talks -- Language Modeling Experiments with Random Forests -- The Role of Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction -- Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard? -- On the Acoustic Components in Multimedia Presentations -- Fusing Data Streams in Continuous Audio-Visual Speech Recognition -- Speech Based User Interface for Users with Special Needs -- Text -- Automatic Construction of a Valency Lexicon of Czech Adjectives -- WebTranscribe - An Extensible Web-Based Speech Annotation Framework -- Learning Syntactic Patterns Using Boosting and Other Classifier Combination Schemas -- Text Classification with Tournament Methods -- New Meta-grammar Constructs in Czech Language Parser synt -- Anaphora in Czech: Large Data and Experiments with Automatic Anaphora Resolution -- Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX: Recent Experiments with Frame Disambiguation -- AARLISS - An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Long-Distance Inter Sentential Scenarios -- Detection and Correction of Malapropisms in Spanish by Means of Internet Search -- The Szeged Treebank -- Automatic Lemmatizer Construction with Focus on OOV Words Lemmatization -- Modeling Syntax of Free Word-Order Languages: Dependency Analysis by Reduction -- Morphological Meanings in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 -- Automatic Acquisition of a Slovak Lexicon from a Raw Corpus -- Equilibrium Points of Single-Layered Neural Networks with Feedback and Applications in the Analysis of Text Documents -- A Syntax and Semantics Linking Algorithm for the Chinese Language -- Fuzzy Information Retrieval Indexed by Concept Identification -- A Theme Allocation for a Sentence Based on Head Driven Patterns -- Speech -- A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Language Modeling with Multilayer Perceptrons and Unigrams -- Supervised and Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Czech -- Modelling Lexical Stress -- The Sound Database Formation for the Allophone-Based Model for English Concatenative Speech Synthesis -- Using Artificially Reverberated Training Data in Distant-Talking ASR -- French-German Bilingual Acoustic Modeling for Embedded Voice Driven Applications -- Sinusoidal Modeling Using Wavelet Packet Transform Applied to the Analysis and Synthesis of Speech Signals -- Speaker Identification Based on Subtractive Clustering Algorithm with Estimating Number of Clusters -- On Modelling Glottal Stop in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis -- Analysis of the Suitability of Common Corpora for Emotional Speech Modeling in Standard Basque -- Discrete and Fluent Voice Dictation in Czech Language -- Unit Selection for Speech Synthesis Based on Acoustic Criteria -- Generative Model for Decoding a Phoneme Recognizer Output -- Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis -- Phoneme Based Acoustics Keyword Spotting in Informal Continuous Speech -- Explicit Duration Modelling in HMM/ANN Hybrids -- Mapping the Speech Signal onto Electromagnetic Articulography Trajectories Using Support Vector Regression -- Automatic Transcription of Numerals in Inflectional Languages -- Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation -- Compact Representation of Speech Using 2-D Cepstrum - An Application to Slovak Digits Recognition -- An Alternative Way of Semantic Interpretation -- Robust Rule-Based Method for Automatic Break Assignment in Russian Texts -- of Improved UWB Speaker Verification System -- Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP -- The VoiceTRAN Speech-to-Speech Communicator -- Dialogue -- Cluster Analysis of Railway Directory Inquire Dialogs -- A Framework for Rapid Multimodal Application Design -- Language-Independent Communication Using Icons on a PDA -- Software Tutors for Dialogue Systems -- Questions in Estonian Information Dialogues: Form and Functions -- Reducing Question Answering Input Data Using Named Entity Recognition -- Annotating Structural Constraints in Discourse Corpora -- A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering -- Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification.