... representations for spontaneous speech inunrestricted domains, without the neces- sity of extensive knowledge engineering. Initial experiments demonstrate that this ap- proach is feasible in principle. ... and Puming Zhan. 1996. JANUS-II - advances inspeech recog- nition. In Proceedings of the ICASSP-96. Wayne Ward. 1991. Understanding spontaneous speech: The PHOENIX system. In Proceedings ... versational speechinunrestricted domains. We argue that such shallow semantic representations can indeed be generated with a minimum amount of linguistic knowledge engineering and without having...
... Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous SpeechinUnrestrictedDomains for Reducing Word Error Rate inSpeech Recognition Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel Language Technologies Institute ... 1996). Since we cannot build on semantic knowledge for constructing parsers in the way it is done for lim- ited domains when attempting to parse spontaneous speech in unrestricted domains, we ... Understanding spontaneous speech: The PHOENIX system. In Proceedings of ICASSP-91, pages 365-367. Klaus Zechner. 1997. Building chunk level rep- resentations for spontaneous speechin unre-...
... pronoun in the objective case shouldn’t be used in subject position. For example, it is very informal to say “Him singing in the shower is an interesting hobby”. c. Bare- infinitive nominal clause ... When the to of the infinitive is omitted, it is called bare- infinitive. The bare- infinitive nominal clause is used when the infinitive clause supplies a predication corresponding to an use of ... any early repayment charges.finite cl (that- cl)nonfinite cl (to infinitive )finite cl (that- cl)finite cl (yes-no interrogative cl) nonfinite cl (to infinitive73.4. Appositive (major...
... affect learning. This time I looked into my training in educational technology for help. I started experimenting by putting material of the course on line using Web Course Tools (WebCT). One ... each other. In fact the amount of language production in the chat was bigger than in class. Since I was aiming at speech production and not written production I had to be online and in the classroom, ... students were not trying to tailor a good sounding argument just for the sake of speaking English. They were interested in the topic. This was very important to me since I was using communicative...
... previously seen in the training corpus,and therefore their overall coverage is not 100%.Starting with an annotated corpus consisting of allannotated files in SemCor, a separate training data setis ... Min-imally supervised word sense disambiguation for allwords in open text. In Proceedings of ACL/SIGLEXSenseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, July.R. Mihalcea and D. Moldovan. 2002. Pattern learningand ... disambiguation algorithm, in that it usesa relatively small data set for training purposes, andgeneralizes the concepts learned from the training datato disambiguate the words in the test data set....
... somewhat inconclu-sive: In both it-filter settings, they cause an in- crease in F-measure for ALL. In the first setting, thisincrease is accompanied by an increase in F-measurefor VP, while in the ... features both during training and testing.We first ran a simple baseline system which re-solved pronouns to their most recent compatible an-tecedent, applying the same settings and constraints9http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/10The ... annotated markables in four di-alogs from the core data set, while testing was per-formed on the automatically detected chunks in theremaining fifth dialog. For training and testing, theperson,...
... principles of reasoning with uncertainty: e.g. Connoly (1994) and Mitkov (1997). Our system can be included into the first approach. In these integrated approaches the semantic and domain ... which includes all the coordinated noun phrases (in this case John and Bill). We will detect the coordination of noun phrases from the SS returned by the SUG fact coordinated. In one- 4 In ... partial parsing and we deal with other kinds of anaphors. As a future aim we will include semantic information in our algorithm in order to check the improvement that we get with it. This information...
... and detail the problems in apply-ing existing approaches to reference generation toopen domainsin §2. We then present our approach in §3, contrasting it with existing approaches. Weextend ... be taken into account when gen-erating a referring expression. If we were gener-ating instructions for using a machine, we mightwant to include both attributes and relations; so toinstruct ... extracted predicates in themanner that existing approaches require (cf., §2). In this paper, we present an algorithm for generat-ing referring expressions in open domains. We dis-cuss the...
... IR. In par- ticular, we explored an extension of the ~phrase- based indexing in the CLARIT TM system ° using a hybrid approach to the extraction of meaning- ful (continuous or discontinuous) ... Generator / Meaningful Subcompounds Figure 1: General Processing for Phrase Generation After preprocessing, the system works in two stages parsing and generation. In the parsing stage, each ... indexing. 2 Phrase-Based Indexing The selection of appropriate indexing terms is criti- cal to the improvement of both precision and recall in an IR task. The ideal indexing terms would di- rectly...
... submissions to the inquiry into “A Certain Maritime Incident” (CMI), which investigated events behind a 2001 incident. An Indonesian vessel was intercepted by the Australian navy in Australian waters; ... effect. In particular: • access to government information, including freedom of information and associated laws; • access to information about proceedings in the courts, including suppression ... related inquiry into accountability arrangements for ministerial staff (the “MoPS inquiry”), the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet insisted on a whole-of-government submission, again limiting...
... speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts. The proportion of individual types in the play is outlined in the following ... direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, direct speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech ... interesting from the point of view of indirectness. The play contains four types of exchanges: direct speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech...
... quality of speech engines. Finally, we demonstrate a human-computer interaction software in T-Engine embedded system.I. INTRODUCTION In this paper, we are concerned with the combination of speech ... layout III. PROPOSED METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION IN T-ENGINEFig.2. Speech recognition in T-EngineThe UDA1342 audio codec in T-Engine provides a minimal sampling frequency (SF) of 44100Hz. ... as follows. In Section 2, a short introduction of T-Engine is given, while a method proposed for speech recognition in T-Engine is provided in Section 3, following is Vietnamese speech synthesis...