Text, Speech and Dialogue

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2002, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2002. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research and development results in the field of natural language processing with emphasis on text, speech, and spoken language, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields, such as web information retrieval, the semantic Web, algorithmic learning, dialogue systems, etc.