Using sentence templates and a stochastic context-free grammar a large corpus (10,000 sentences) has been created, where prosodic phrase boundaries are labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. With perception experiments on a subset of 500 utterances we verified that 92% of the automatically marked boundaries were perceived as prosodically marked. In initial automatic ...

Emergent grain boundaries at free surface control material properties such as nanomaterial strength, catalysis, and corrosion. Recently the restructuring of emergent on copper (111) surfaces was discovered experimentally atomic calculations point to its universality in fcc metal systems. Restructuring is due a preference for shift their tilt axis across (11¯0) plane towards [112] ultimately for...

This article introduces a representation of dynamic meshes, adapted to some numerical simulations that require controlling the volume objects with free boundaries, such as incompressible fluid simulation, astrophysical at cosmological scale, and shape/topology optimization. The algorithm decomposes simulated object into set convex cells called Laguerre diagram, parameterized by position N point...