Special Issue on Spoken Language Processing
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 . FOREWORD ........................................................ 607
        Kazuyo TANAKA

PAPERS
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 . Multimodal Interaction in Human Communication ................... 609
        Keiko WATANUKI, Kenji SAKAMOTO and Fumio TOGAWA

 . A Speech Dialogue System with Multimodal Interface for Telephone
   Directory Assistance ............................................ 616
        Osamu YOSHIOKA, Yasuhiro MINAMI and Kiyohiro SHIKANO

 . An Utterance Prediction Method Based on the Topic Transition Model
            ........................................................ 622
        Yoichi YAMASHITA, Takashi HIRAMATSU, Osamu KAKUSHO and Riichiro
        MIZOGUCHI

 . Cooperative Spoken Dialogue Model Using Bayesian Network and Event
   Hierarchy ....................................................... 629
        Masahiro ARAKI and Shuji DOSHITA

 . Error Analysis of Field Trial Results of a Spoken Dialogue System
   for Telecommunications Applications ............................. 636
        Shingo KUROIWA, Kazuya TAKEDA, Masaki NAITO, Naomi INOUE and
        Seiichi YAMAMOTO

 . Automatic Determination of the Number of Mixture Components for
   Continuous HMMs Based on a Uniform Variance Criterion ........... 642
        Tetsuo KOSAKA and Shigeki SAGAYAMA

 . An HMM State Duration Control Algorithm Applied to Large-Vocabulary
   Spontaneous Speech Recognition .................................. 648
        Satoshi TAKAHASHI, Yasuhiro MINAMI and Kiyohiro SHIKANO

 . Duration Modeling with Decreased Intra-Group Temporal Variation for
   HMM-Based Phoneme Recognition ................................... 654
        Nobuaki MINEMATSU and Keikichi HIROSE

 . A New HMnet Construction Algorithm Requiring No Contextual Factors
            ........................................................ 662
        Motoyuki SUZUKI, Shozo MAKINO, Akinori ITO, Hirotomo ASO and
        Hiroshi SHIMODAIRA

 . A Comparative Study of Output Probability Functions in HMMs ..... 669
        Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Li ZHAO and Hideyuki SUZUKI

 . Neural Predictive Hidden Markov Model for Speech Recognition .... 676
        Eiichi TSUBOKA and Yoshihiro TAKADA

 . Tone Recognition of Chinese Dissyllables Using Hidden Markov Models
            ........................................................ 685
        Xinhui HU and Keikichi HIROSE

 . Speech Recognition Using Function-Word N-Grams and Content-Word
   N-Grams ......................................................... 692
        Ryosuke ISOTANI, Shoichi MATSUNAGA and Shigeki SAGAYAMA

 . Relationship among Recognition Rate, Rejection Rate and False Alarm
   Rate in a Spoken Word Recognition System ........................ 698
        Atsuhiko KAI and Seiichi NAKAGAWA

 . Automatic Language Identification Using Sequential Information of
   Phonemes ........................................................ 705
        Takayuki ARAI

 . A Study on Speaker Adaptation for Mandarin Syllable Recognition with
   Minimum Error Discriminative Training ........................... 712
        Chih-Heng LIN, Chien-Hsing WU and Pao-Chung CHANG

 . Speaker-Consistent Parsing for Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech
   Recognition ..................................................... 719
        Kouichi YAMAGUCHI, Harald SINGER, Shoichi MATSUNAGA and Shigeki
        SAGAYAMA

 . A Scheme for Word Detection in Continuous Speech Using Likelihood
   Scores of Segments Modified by Their Context Within a Word ...... 725
        Sumio OHNO, Keikichi HIROSE and Hiroya FUJISAKI

 . Uniform and Non-uniform Normalization of Vocal Tracts Measured by
   MRI Across Male, Female and Child Subjects ...................... 732
        Chang-Sheng YANG and Hideki KASUYA

 . Simultaneous Estimation of Vocal Tract and Voice Source Parameters
   Based on an ARX Model ........................................... 738
        Wen DING, Hideki KASUYA and Shuichi ADACHI

 . Characteristics of Multi-Layer Perceptron Models in Enhancing
   Degraded Speech ................................................. 744
        Thanh Tung LE, John MASON and Tadashi KITAMURA

 . An Objective Measure Based on an Auditory Model for Assessing
   Low-Rate Coded Speech ........................................... 751
        Toshiro WATANABE and Shinji HAYASHI

 . 4kbps Improved Pitch Prediction CELP Speech Coding with 20msec Frame
            ........................................................ 758
        Masahiro SERIZAWA and Kazunori OZAWA

Regular Section
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PAPER
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[Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition]

 . A Structured Video Handling Technique for Multimedia Systems .... 764
        Yoshinobu TONOMURA and Akihito AKUTSU

LETTER
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[Automata, Languages and Theory of Computing]

 . A Note on One-way Auxiliary Pushdown Automata ................... 778
        Yue WANG, Jian-Liang XU, Katsushi INOUE and Akira ITO

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-D-I, J78-D-II, No.6 in Japanese)
            ........................................................ 783