Speechreading sentences II: Application of a sequence comparator to data on CID sentences

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Effects of two repair strategies on speechreading of words and sentences.

The effectiveness of two repair strategies, repetition and paraphrasing, in enhancing speechreading performance was evaluated on 20 young adults with normal hearing using both word and sentence test stimuli. Both strategy types produced significant improvement, and the repeat strategy yielded the greatest gains overall. Paraphrasing resulted in the most enhancement for words, while repetition w...

"Linguistic" sentences and "real" sentences

This p~$r Id~ntift~ iwe klr¢ds of sentences: "llngulsUc" sentences ~ J "r~al" a~-ntence~. "l't~,~ former is a kind of sentel~'~,e~ that ar~ often discussed in (cemputatkmal) Ungulstlc literatures, sucll as the:re In i:lgure 1. The latter, on the other hand, is a kind of senteace=~ that appear in practical applications, such as those In Flgu='e 2. Where~ts both are grammatical English sentences,...

Clustering Sentences - Making Sense of Synonymous Sentences

Learning to Complete Sentences

We consider the problem of predicting how a user will continue a given initial text fragment. Intuitively, our goal is to develop a “tab-complete” function for natural language, based on a model that is learned from text data. We consider two learning mechanisms that generate predictive models from collections of application-specific document collections: we develop an N-gram based completion m...