The tragic events of September 11th have caused drastic effects on many aspects of society. Academics in the fields of computational and information science have been called upon ...
Abstract From lyrics-display on electronic music players and Karaoke videos to surtitles for live Chinese opera performance, one feature is common to all these everyday functionali...
Abstract—Putative brain processes responsible for understanding language are based on spreading activation in semantic networks, providing enhanced representations that involve c...
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
RAVE (Real-time Answer Validation Engine) is a logic-based answer validator/selector designed for real-time question answering. Instead of proving a hypothesis for each answer, RAV...