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COLING
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Pronouncing Text by Analogy
Pronunciation-by-analogy(PbA) is an emerging technique for text-phoneme conversion based on a psychological model of reading aloud. This paper explores the impact of certain basic...
Robert I. Damper, John F. G. Eastmond
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Analogical Dialogue Acts: Supporting Learning by Reading Analogies in Instructional Texts
Analogy is heavily used in instructional texts. We introduce the concept of analogical dialogue acts (ADAs), which represent the roles utterances play in instructional analogies. ...
David Michael Barbella, Kenneth D. Forbus
EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Lexical Analogies Using Dependency Relations
A lexical analogy is a pair of word-pairs that share a similar semantic relation. Lexical analogies occur frequently in text and are useful in various natural language processing ...
Andy Chiu, Pascal Poupart, Chrysanne DiMarco
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Paradigmatic Cascades: a Linguistically Sound Model of Pronunciation by Analogy
We present and experimentally evaluate a new model of pronunciation by analogy: the paradigmatic cascades model. Given a pronunciation lexicon, this algorithm first extracts the m...
François Yvon
TSD
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Expressive Gibberish Speech Synthesis for Affective Human-Computer Interaction
In this paper we present our study on expressive gibberish speech synthesis as a means for affective communication between computing devices, such as a robot or an avatar, and thei...
Selma Yilmazyildiz, Lukas Latacz, Wesley Mattheyse...