This paper describes an experimental dialog system designed to retrieve information and generate summaries of internet news reports related to user queries in Swedish and English. The extraction component is based on parsing and on matching the parsing output against stereotypic event templates. Bilingual text generation is accomplished by filling the templates after which grammar components ge...

The goal of this article is to address introductory issues concerning the origin, function, and relevance Masoretic accentuation. First, it describes recent scholarly attitude towards Then clarifies some terminology involved shows in which texts accents were used addition Hebrew Bible. Finally, offers a discussion original purpose function

A comparison of identified sympathetic neurons in the isolated intact superior cervical ganglion revealed that secretomotor, pilomotor, and vasoconstrictor cells differ in their action potential mechanisms and in their postsynaptic alpha(2)-adrenergic responses to 10 microM norepinephrine (NE). In normal saline, the half-width of the spike afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in secretomotor neurons (1...

The present ERP study investigated the on-line interaction of prosody and information structure in Dutch. More specifically, we looked into how pitch accents, which are either congruous or incongruous with respect to the discourse context, are processed. Our results show that listeners process prosodic information immediately and check it for congruity within the discourse. Inappropriate prosod...

One of the major findings of the recent linguistic research on Japanese is that the syllable plays a pivotal role in a variety of phonological and morphological phenomena in the mora-based prosodic system of this language. This paper attempts to reinforce this argument by proposing a significant generalization of Japanese accentuation in terms of ‘syllable weight’, an idea that each syllable ha...

Within the Basque-speaking territory, pitch-accent phenomena are found in two areas: Northern Bizkaia and Western Navarre. These two systems differ from each other in important respects. Whereas Northern Bizkaian has a system of the Tokyo Japanese type, the Western Navarrese pitch-accent contrast is reminiscent of those of languages like Swedish. The two systems are separated by a large area wi...

The aim of this paper is to present a suitable framework for the description of intonational variation within Swedish. The speech data base used mainly consists of natural spontaneous speech collected from a large number of varieties of Swedish within the project SweDia 2000. The intonational typology discussed takes into account both potentially cross-linguistic and more language and dialect s...

More and more e orts have been recently made to apply speech technologies to language learning[1]{ [4]. The authors have been especially focusing on Japanese manners of generating English word stress. This is because accentuation habits inevitable to Japanese learners can be easily found in their stress generation. In our previous studies, a stressed syllable detector and an accentuation habit ...

This study presents a comparison of French lexical fundamental frequency (f0) profiles for different speaking styles using phonemic, syllabic and lexical transcriptions as well as partof-speech annotations. Three speaking styles (broadcast news, broadcast conferences and conversations) with over 20 hours of speech were used. Syllabic word length and POS were considered as influential factors. R...