This article analyzes legal language through the rhetorical, argumentative and narrative structures employed by non-represented litigants, whose linguistic interaction with the court is not mediated by professional counsel. It identifies two distinct concerns that lay litigants express when approaching justice: rhetorical effectiveness in terms of persuading the court of their case; and authent...

Although modern audio score following systems work very well with low polyphony performances, they are still too imprecise with highly polyphonic instruments such as the piano, or the guitar. On the other hand, these instruments can easily output Midi information which shows that our work on robust Midi score following is still needed. We propose an adaptation to Midi input of our HMM-based sto...

Voice of Sisyphus is a multimedia installation consisting of a projection of a black and white image sonified and spatialized through a 4 channel audio system. The audio-visual composition unfolds as several regions within the image are filtered, subdivided, and repositioned over time. Unlike the spectrograph approach used by most graphical synthesis programs, our synthesis technique is derived...

In this paper a mixed-paradigm piano model is presented. The major development is the ability of modeling longitudinal string vibrations. Longitudinal string motion is the reason for the metallic sound of low piano notes, therefore its modeling greatly improves the perceptual quality of synthesized piano sound. In this novel approach the transversal displacement of the string is computed by a f...