A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
A principal problem in speech recognition is distinguishing between words and phrases that sound similar but have different meanings. Speech recognition programs produce a list of...
Henry Lieberman, Alexander Faaborg, Waseem Daher, ...
This paper describes an approach to the treatment of nominal compounds in a machine translation project employing a modern unification-based system. General problems connected wit...
Pierrette Bouillon, Katharina Boesefeldt, Graham R...
The ability to determine what day-to-day activity (such as cooking pasta, taking a pill, or watching a video) a person is performing is of interest in many application domains. A ...
Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fish...
The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumergenerated product reviews have become a valuable source of inf...
Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeir...