Table of Contents

Speech Analysis.- Event Detection by HMM, SVM and ANN: A Comparative Study.- Frication and Voicing Classification.- A Spoken Dialog System Speech Interface Based on a Microphone Array.- Ontologies, Semantics and Anaphora Resolution.- PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese.- Comparing Window and Syntax Based Strategies for Semantic Extraction.- The Mitkov Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Portuguese.- Semantic Similarity, Ontologies and the Portuguese Language: A Close Look at the subject.- Speech Synthesis.- Boundary Refining Aiming at Speech Synthesis Applications.- Evolutionary-Based Design of a Brazilian Portuguese Recording Script for a Concatenative Synthesis System.- DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese.- European Portuguese Articulatory Based Text-to-Speech: First Results.- Machine Learning Applied to Natural Language Processing.- Statistical Machine Translation of Broadcast News from Spanish to Portuguese.- Combining Multiple Features for Automatic Text Summarization through Machine Learning.- Some Experiments on Clustering Similar Sentences of Texts in Portuguese.- Portuguese Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning.- Learning Coreference Resolution for Portuguese Texts.- Speech Recognition and Applications.- Domain Adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament.- Automatic Classification and Transcription of Telephone Speech in Radio Broadcast Data.- A Platform of Distributed Speech Recognition for the European Portuguese Language.- Natural Language Processing Tools and Applications.- Supporting e-Learning with Language Technology for Portuguese.- ParaMT: A Paraphraser for Machine Translation.- POSTERS.- Second HAREM: New Challenges and Old Wisdom.-Floresta Sintá(c)tica: Bigger, Thicker and Easier.- The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study.- CorrefSum: Referencial Cohesion Recovery in Extractive Summaries.- Answering Portuguese Questions.- XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese.- Using Semantic Prototypes for Discourse Status Classification.- Using System Expectations to Manage User Interactions.- Adaptive Modeling and High Quality Spectral Estimation for Speech Enhancement.- On the Voiceless Aspirated Stops in Brazilian Portuguese.- Comparison of Phonetic Segmentation Tools for European Portuguese.- Spoltech and OGI-22 Baseline Systems for Speech Recognition in Brazilian Portuguese.- Development of a Speech Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database.- Dynamic Language Modeling for the European Portuguese.- An Approach to Natural Language Equation Reading in Digital Talking Books.- Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System.