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Overview of this volume 　
　　Shu-Chuan Tseng
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 　
　　Jen Ting
Voice Quality Dependent Speech Recognition 　
　　Tae-Jin Yoon, Xiaodan Zhuang, Jennifer Cole and 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 and Xiaodan Zhuang
Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German 　
　　Adrian Leemann and Beat Siebenhaar
Linguistic Patterns Detected Through a Prosodic Segmentation in Spontaneous Taiwan Mandarin Speech 　
　　Yi-Fen Liu and 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) 　
　　Che-Kuang Lin, Shu-Chuan Tseng and 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, and Sébastien Cuendet
Exploring Silence Application and Politeness Strategies in Interpersonal Business Communication 　
　　Annie Wenhui Yang
Recognizing Local Dialogue Structures and Dialogue Acts 　
　　Kenji Takano and Akira Shimazu