This paper presents an architecture for the generation of spoken monologues with contextually appropriate intonation. A twotiered information structure representation is used in t...
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...
This paper presents an approach to spoken Chinese language paraphrasing based on feature extraction and techniques of language generation. In this approach, an input utterance is ...
Abstract. One important component of interactive systems is the generation component. While template-based generation is appropriate in many cases (for example, task oriented spoke...
We focus in this paper on the named entity recognition task in spoken data. The proposed approach investigates the use of various contexts of the words to improve recognition. Exp...