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SPEECH ELSEVIER Speech Communication 32 (2000) 301-302 www.elsevier.com/locate/specom Cumulative contents of Volume 32 Volume 32, Numbers 1-2, September 2000 Special Issue on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio Guest Editors: Steve Renals and Tony Robinson S. Renals and T. Robinson Editorial — Accessing information in spoken audio l S. Renals, D. Abberley, D. Kirby and T. Robinson Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news 5 P. Jourlin, S.E. Johnson, K. Sparck Jones and P.C. Woodland Spoken document representations for probabilistic retrieval 21 M. Federico A system for the retrieval of Italian broadcast news 37 H.-m. Wang Experiments in syllable-based retrieval of broadcast news speech in Mandarin Chinese 49 C. Ng, R. Wilkinson and J. Zobel Experiments in spoken document retrieval using phoneme n-grams 61 M.C. Benitez, A. Rubio, P. Garcia and A. de la Torre Different confidence measures for word verification in speech recognition 79 D.D. Palmer, M. Ostendorf and J.D. Burger Robust information extraction from automatically generated speech trancriptions 95 P. Delacourt and C.J. Wellekens DISTBIC: A speaker-based segmentation for audio data indexing 111 E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hakkani-Tiir and G. Tiir Prosody-based automatic segmentation of speech into sentences and topics 127 Advance table of contents 155 Volume 32, Number 3, October 2000 Papers K. Ng and V.W. Zue Subword-based approaches for spoken document retrieval 157 J.B. Maritio, A. Nogueiras, P. Pachés-Leal and A. Bonafonte The demiphone: An efficient contextual subword unit for continuous speech recognition 187 E. Ofuka, J.D. McKeown, M.G. Waterman and P.J. Roach Prosodic cues for rated politeness in Japanese speech 199 Book reviews 219 Advance table of contents 223 News 225 0167-6393/00/$ - see front matter © 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. 302 Cumulative contents of Volume 32 | Speech Communication 32 (2000) 301-302 Volume 32, Number 4, November 2000 Papers J.J. Parry, I.S. Burnett and J.F. Chicharo Language-specific phonetic structure and the quantisation of the spectral envelope of speech 229 S. Tokuma Quality perception of vowels with simulated /CVC/ formant trajectories 251 S.P. Whiteside and C. Hodgson Speech patterns of children and adults elicited via a picture-naming task: An acoustic study Acknowledgements Advance table of contents Laudatio for Best-Paper Award 1998/99 for Speech Communication A European masters in language and speech Book announcement 297 Announcement and Call for papers 298 Author index of Volume 32 299 Cumulative contents of Volume 32 301 Ici} Articles marked with this symbol include references to speech files which can be retrieved at http://www. elsevier.nl/locate/specom. Advance tables of contents can be retrieved at http: // www.elsevier.nl/locate/specom.