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TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget's Thesaurus
Roget’s Thesaurus is a lexical resource which groups terms by semantic relatedness. It is Roget’s shortcoming that the relations are ambiguous, in that it does not name them; i...
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Intonational Realization of Requests in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues
available in the Conference Program). 2007: (with E. Jarmołowicz, Z. Malisz i M. Szczyszek) Gesture, Prosody and Lexicon in ented Dialogues: Progress Report. (Poznań Linguistic M...
Maciej Karpinski
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech
Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analysis of Changes in Dialogue Rhythm Due to Dialogue Acts in Task-Oriented Dialogues
We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialo...
Noriki Fujiwara, Toshihiko Itoh, Kenji Araki
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Inter-speaker Synchronization in Audiovisual Database for Lip-Readable Speech to Animation Conversion
The present study proposes an inter-speaker audiovisual synchronization method to decrease the speaker dependency of our direct speech to animation conversion system. Our aim is to...
Gergely Feldhoffer, Balázs Oroszi, Gyö...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Identifying Expressions of Emotion in Text
Saima Aman, Stan Szpakowicz
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Constructing Empirical Models for Automatic Dialog Parameterization
Automatic classification of dialogues between clients and a service center needs a preliminary dialogue parameterization. Such a parameterization is usually faced with essential di...
Mikhail Alexandrov, Xavier Blanco, Natalia Ponomar...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Filled Pauses in Speech Synthesis: Towards Conversational Speech
Speech synthesis techniques have already reached a high level of naturalness. However, they are often evaluated on text reading tasks. New applications will request for conversatio...
Jordi Adell, Antonio Bonafonte, David Escudero Man...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The LIA Speech Recognition System: From 10xRT to 1xRT
Georges Linares, Pascal Nocera, Dominique Massoni&...