Although image understanding and natural language processing constitute two major areas of AI, they have mostly been studied independentlyof each other. Only a few attempts have b...
Abstract. Decision making is an important aspect of meetings in organisational settings, and archives of meeting recordings constitute a valuable source of information about the de...
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
The generation of complex entities with advantageous behaviours beyond our manual design capability requires long-term incremental evolution with continuing emergence. In this pap...