Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch

Foreword. by Linde van den Bosch.- Introduction.- Peter Spyns.- Part I. How it started.- 2.The STEVIN Programme: Result of Five Years Cross-Border HLT for Dutch Policy Preparation. P.Spyns and E.D'Halleweyn.- Part II. HLT Resource-project Related Papers.- 3.The JASMIN Speech Corpus: Recordings of Children, Non-Natives and Elderly People. C. Cucchiarini and H. Van Hamme.- 4.Resources Developed in the Autonomata Projects. H.van den Heuvel, J-P.Martens, G.Bloothooft, M.Schraagen, N.Konings, K.D'hanens, and Q.Yang.- 5.STEVIN can Praat. D.Weenink.- 6.SPRAAK: Speech Processing, Recognition and Automatic Annotation Kit. P.Wambacq, K.Demuynck, and D.Van Compernolle.- 7.COREA: Coreference Resolution for Extracting Answers for Dutch. I.Hendrickx, G.Bouma, W.Daelemans and V.Hoste.- 8.Automatic Tree Matching for Analysing Semantic Similarity in Comparable Text. E.Marsi and E.Krahmer.- 9.Large Scale Syntactic Annotation of Written Dutch: Lassy. G.van Noord, G.Bouma, F.van Eynde, D.de Kok, J.van der Linde, I.Schuurman, E.Tjong Kim Sang, and V.Vandeghinste.- 10.Cornetto: a Combinatorial Lexical Semantic Database for Dutch. P.Vossen, I.Maks, R.Segers, H.van der Vliet, M-F.Moens, K.Hofmann, E.Tjong Kim Sang, and M.de Rijke.- 11.Dutch Parallel Corpus: a Balanced Parallel Corpus for Dutch-English and Dutch-French. H.Paulusen, L.Macken, W.Vandeweghe, and P.Desmet.- 12.Identification and Lexical Representation of Multiword Expressions. J.Odijk.- 13.The Construction of a 500-million-word Reference Corpus of Contemporary Written Dutch. N.Oostdijk, M.Reynaert, V.Hoste, and I.Schuurman.- Part III. HLT Technology Related Papers.- 14.Lexical Modeling for Proper Name Recognition in Autonomata Too.- B.Reveil, J-P.Martens, H.van den Heuvel, G.Bloothooft, and M.Schraagen.- 15.N-Best 2008: a Benchmark Evaluation for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition in Dutch. D.A. van Leeuwen.- 16.Missing Data Solutions for Robust Speech Recognition. Y.Wang, J.F.Gemmeke, K.Demuynck, and H.Van Hamme.- 17.Parse and Corpus-based Machine Translation. V.Vandeghinste, S.Martens, G.Kotze, J.Tiedemann, J.Van den Bogaert, K.De Smet, F.Van Eynde, and G.van Noord.- Part IV.HLT Application Related Papers.- 18.Development and Integration of Speech technology into COurseware for Language Learning: the DISCO Project. H. Strik, J. van Doremalen, J. Colpaert, and C. Cucchiarini.- 19.Question Answering of Informative Web Pages: How Summarisation Technology Helps. J.De Belder, D.de Kok, G.van Noord, F.Nauze, L.van der Beek, and M-F.Moens.- 20.Generating, Refining and Using Sentiment Lexicons. M.de Rijke, V.Jijkoun, F.Laan, W.Weerkamp, P.Ackermans, and G.Geleijnse.- Part V. And now.- 21.The Dutch-Flemish HLT Agency: Managing the Lifecycle of STEVIN's Language Resources. R.van Veenendaal, L.van Eerten, C.Cucchiarini, and P.Spyns.- 22.Conclusions and Outlook to the Future. Jan Odijk.â