I. Spontaneity: definition and standard
Can there be Standards for Spontaneous Speech? Towards an Ontology for Speech Resource Exploitation
Dafydd Gibbon

II. Variation: allophones and registers
Analysis of Language Variation Using a Large-Scale Corpus of Spontaneous Speech
Kikuo Maekawa

Situational Characteristics and Register Variation: A Case Study of the Particle suo in Mandarin Chinese
丁仁 (Jen Ting)

Voice Quality Dependent Speech Recognition
Tae-Jin Yoon, Xiaodan Zhuang, Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

III. Prosody: feature and processing
Prosodic Hierarchy as an Organizing Framework for the Sources of Context in Phone-Based and Articulatory-Feature-Based Speech Recognition
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Jennifer Cole, Ken Chen, Partha Lal, Amit Juneja, Tae-Jin Yoon, Sarah Borys, Xiaodan Zhuang

Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German
Adrian Leemann, Beat Siebenhaar

Linguistic Patterns Detected Through a Prosodic Segmentation in Spontaneous Taiwan Mandarin Speech
劉怡芬 (Yi-Fen Liu)、曾淑娟 (Shu-Chuan Tseng)

IV. Disfluency: pattern and detection
Prolongation of Clause-initial Mono-word Phrases in Japanese
Yasuharu Den

Spontaneous Mandarin Speech Recognition with Disfluencies Detected by Latent Prosodic Modeling (LPM)
林哲光 (Che-Kuang Lin)、曾淑娟 (Shu-Chuan Tseng)、李琳山 (Lin-Shan Lee)

V. Spoken dialogue: communication and recognition
Prosodic Similarities of Dialog Act Boundaries Across Speaking Styles
Elizabeth Shriberg, Benoit Favre, James Fung, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Sébastien Cuendet

Exploring Silence Application and Politeness Strategies in Interpersonal Business Communication
Annie Wenhui Yang

Recognizing Local Dialogue Structures and Dialogue Acts
Kenji Takano, Akira Shimazu

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