AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF PHONOLOGICALLY COMPACT PHRASES

Automatic Generation of Ballet Phrases

As cyber-physical systems advance, specifications for these systems must be formulated in more nuanced manners. This paper presents a particular instantiation of such specification by proposing a framework that endows robotic behavior with a sense of aesthetic style. Drawing inspiration from classical ballet, poses are cast as discrete states and movements as the transitions between these state...

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

Using F0 within a phonologically motivated method of unit selection

The current generation of concatenative speech synthesis systems rely on the selection of appropriate pre-recorded speech units from a repository of sounds. This process, commonly referred to as unit selection, is a critical step in the production of natural sounding speech. However the process of unit selection is only as good as the labelling strategy used and the quality and style of the rec...

Automatic Identification of Non-compositional Phrases

Non-compositional expressions present a special challenge to NLP applications. We present a method for automatic identification of non-compositional expressions using their statistical properties in a text corpus. Our method is based on the hypothesis that when a phrase is non-composition, its mutual information differs significantly from the mutual informations of phrases obtained by substitut...