Compounding is a very productive process in German to form complex nouns and adjectives which represent about 7% of the words of a newspaper text. Unlike English, German compounds ...
Word segmentation is the first and obligatory task for every NLP. For inflectional languages like English, French, Dutch,.. their word boundaries are simply assumed to be whitespa...
Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
This paper reports the results of experiments in complex Arabic phonetic features identification using a rulebased system (SARPH) and modular connectionist architectures. The firs...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...