Human spoken language production is directed towards communication delivering comprehensible information to recipients. Speech segmentation into small units efficiently enhances a sensible and interpretable discourse structure. Such processing units in real-life communication may be applied to semantic, syntactic, or prosodic structures. Previous studies have proposed various theories of speech...

Abstract Document-level relation extraction is a challenging task in information extraction, as it involves identifying semantic relations between entities that are dispersed throughout document. Existing graph-based approaches often rely on simplistic methods to construct text graphs, which do not provide enough lexical and accurately predict the entity pairs. In this paper, we introduce docum...

An attempt was made to semi-automatically obtain “lexical units” (LUs) for Japanese from the English LUs defined in the semantic frame database provided by Berkeley FrameNet (BFN) using an English-Japanese bilingual corpus. This task was a prerequisite to building a complete database of semantic frames for Japanese. In the task, a Japanese word is first translated into an English word or phrase...

In the present issue we discuss a theoretical model for processing of emotional speech during text analysis and synthesis. The model is developed for description of speech influence in affective mass media texts and also applies to several other types of emotional communication, including conflict, complaint and speech aggression. The model follows H-CogAff architecture of cognitive models and ...

A combination of statistical and rule methods has been developed for Chinese spoken language analyzing. The analyzing result is a middle semantic frame, which can be converted to different language according people’s needs. We adopt the statistical method in the stage of extracting semantic meaning and the rule method in the stage of mapping the semantic units to middle semantic frame. Experime...