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2006
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Phoneme-to-Text Transcription System with an Infinite Vocabulary
The noisy channel model approach is successfully applied to various natural language processing tasks. Currently the main research focus of this approach is adaptation methods, ho...
Shinsuke Mori, Daisuke Takuma, Gakuto Kurata
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ACL
2006
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Extracting Parallel Sub-Sentential Fragments from Non-Parallel Corpora
We present a novel method for extracting parallel sub-sentential fragments from comparable, non-parallel bilingual corpora. By analyzing potentially similar sentence pairs using a...
Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2006
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Leveraging Reusability: Cost-Effective Lexical Acquisition for Large-Scale Ontology Translation
Thesauri and ontologies provide important value in facilitating access to digital archives by representing underlying principles of organization. Translation of such resources int...
G. Craig Murray, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin, Jan...
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2006
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Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality
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...
Crystal Nakatsu, Michael White
ACL
2006
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Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...
Lalita Narupiyakul