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...
The vast amount of information freely available on the Web constitutes a unparalleled resource for the automatic knoweledge discovery and learning. In this paper we propose a study...
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
We present how to efficiently mine a set of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for unconnected, both multi- or single-rooted, and induced fragments. With a new canonical form that is ...
This paper introduces a knowledge representation formalism used for annotation of the French MEDIA dialogue corpus in terms of high level semantic structures. The semantic annotat...