Invited Papers -- Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future? -- Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context -- ScanSoft's Technologies -- Text -- A Positional Linguistics-Based System for Word Alignment -- Handling Multi-word Expressions Without Explicit Linguistic Rules in an MT System -- The Szeged Corpus: A POS Tagged and Syntactically Annotated Hungarian Natural Language Corpus -- Item Summarization in Personalisation of News Delivery Systems -- IR-n System, a Passage Retrieval Architecture -- Event Clustering in the News Domain -- HANDY: Sign Language Synthesis from Sublexical Elements Based on an XML Data Representation -- Using Linguistic Resources to Construct Conceptual Graph Representation of Texts -- Slovak National Corpus -- Grammatical Heads Optimized for Parsing and Their Comparison with Linguistic Intuition -- How Dominant Is the Commonest Sense of a Word? -- POS Tagging of Hungarian with Combined Statistical and Rule-Based Methods -- Grammatical Relations Identification of Korean Parsed Texts Using Support Vector Machines -- Clustering Abstracts Instead of Full Texts -- Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-of-Speech Tagger -- Automatic Language Identification Using Phoneme and Automatically Derived Unit Strings -- Slovak Text-to-Speech Synthesis in ARTIC System -- Identifying Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models -- A Lexical Grammatical Implementation of Affect -- Towards Full Lexical Recognition -- Discriminative Models of SCFG and STSG -- Coupling Grammar and Knowledge Base: Range Concatenation Grammars and Description Logics -- Balancing Manual and Automatic Indexing for Retrieval of Paper Abstracts -- Unsupervised Learning of Rules for Morphological Disambiguation -- Ambiguous Supertagging Using a Feature Structure -- A Practical Word Sense Disambiguation System with High Performance for Korean -- Morphological Tagging of Russian Texts of the XIXth Century -- Speech -- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Estonian Using Morphemes and Classes -- A New Classifier for Speaker Verification Based on the Fractional Brownian Motion Process -- A Universal Human Machine Speech Interaction Language for Robust Speech Recognition Applications -- Embedded ViaVoice -- New Speech Enhancement Approach for Formant Evolution Detection -- Measurement of Complementarity of Recognition Systems -- Text-to-Speech for Slovak Language -- Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets -- A Decoding Algorithm for Speech Input Statistical Translation -- Aggregation Operators and Hypothesis Space Reductions in Speech Recognition -- Combinations of TRAP Based Systems -- Automatic Recognition and Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech -- Using Neural Networks to Model Prosody in Czech TTS System Epos -- Auditory Scene Analysis via Application of ICA in a Time-Frequency Domain -- Using the Lemmatization Technique for Phonetic Transcription in Text-to-Speech System -- Automatic Categorization of Voicemail Transcripts Using Stochastic Language Models -- Low Latency Real-Time Vocal Tract Length Normalization -- Multimodal Phoneme Recognition of Meeting Data -- A New Multi-modal Database for Developing Speech Recognition Systems for an Assistive Technology Application -- Obtaining and Evaluating an Emotional Database for Prosody Modelling in Standard Basque -- Fully Automated Approach to Broadcast News Transcription in Czech Language -- A Computational Model of Intonation for Yorùbá Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Design and Analysis -- Dynamic Unit Selection for Very Low Bit Rate Coding at 500 bits/sec -- On the Background Model Construction for Speaker Verification Using GMM -- A Speaker Clustering Algorithm for Fast Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition -- Advanced Prosody Modelling -- Voice Stress Analysis -- Slovak Speech Database for Experiments and Application Building in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis -- Towards Lower Error Rates in Phoneme Recognition -- Examination of Pronunciation Variation from Hand-Labelled Corpora -- New Refinement Schemes for Voice Conversion -- Acoustic and Linguistic Information Based Chinese Prosodic Boundary Labelling -- F0 Prediction Model of Speech Synthesis Based on Template and Statistical Method -- An Architecture for Spoken Document Retrieval -- Evaluation of the Slovenian HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System -- Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments -- Parallel Root-Finding Method for LPC Analysis of Speech -- Automatic General Letter-to-Sound Rules Generation for German Text-to-Speech System -- Pitch Accent Prediction from ToBI Annotated Corpora Based on Bayesian Learning -- Processing of Logical Expressions for Visually Impaired Users -- Dialogue -- Durational Aspects of Turn-Taking in Spontaneous Face-to-Face and Telephone Dialogues -- A Speech Platform for a Bilingual City Information System -- Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology -- Building Voice Applications from Web Content -- Information-Providing Dialogue Management -- Realistic Face Animation for a Czech Talking Head -- Evaluation of a Web Based Information System for Blind and Visually Impaired Students: A Descriptive Study -- Multimodal Dialogue Management -- Looking at the Last Two Turns, I'd Say This Dialogue Is Doomed - Measuring Dialogue Success -- Logical Approach to Natural Language Understanding in a Spoken Dialogue System -- Building a Dependency-Based Grammar for Parsing Informal Mathematical Discourse.