We assess the use of hedge phrases in “affective” NLG texts. A simple experiment suggests non-native speakers prefer texts that contain hedge phrases, but native speakers prefer texts that do not contain hedge phrases.

A common view of finiteness, particularly prevalent in the transformational grammar traditions, associates it with the marking of tense/aspect/mood and subject agreement on verbs. However, since nominal predicates as well as verbal predicates may be temporally located (e.g. ex-soldier, former friend, future President), there is no reason in principle why nominal predicates might not bear TAM ma...

Linguists draw a distinction between two types of interrogatives: discourse linked (d-linked) phrases such as which man, which implies the existence of a set of contextually determined entities (men) from which the speaker is asking for a choice, and non-d-linked interrogatives such as who, which carry no such implication. Two questionnaires and an on-line reading study showed that readers pref...

In this paper, we describe the architecture of a sub-sentential alignment system that links linguistically motivated phrases in parallel texts. We conceive our sub-sentential aligner as a cascade model consisting of two phases. In the first phase, anchor chunks are linked on the basis of lexical correspondences and syntactic similarity. In the second phase, we will focus on the more complex tra...

This paper introduces new definitions of Chinese base phrases and presents a hybrid model to combine Memory-Based Learning method and disambiguation proposal based on lexical information and grammar rules populated from a large corpus for 9 types of Chinese base phrases chunking. Our experiment achieves an accuracy (F-measure) of 93.4%. The significance of the research lies in the fact that it ...

In this paper we will discuss the Auto-extraction of paraphrases of letter-word phrases in live Chinese texts. The paper discusses the modes of conventional dictionaries firstly, and then gives the principles of paraphrase of letter-word phrases; with an analysis of the examples of letter-word phrases paraphrases secondly, and then gives their formalized denotations and presents an auto-recogni...

We present a speech synthesizer to seamlessly concatenate recorded and synthetic phrases to produce natural sounding and highly expressive speech. Not only the acoustic units, but also the F0 contours are seamlessly concatenated together from recorded and synthetic phrases. When mixed with recorded phrases, the F0 contours of synthetic phrases are generated adaptively relative to the actual sur...

In this article, I provide a typology of transition words/phrases. This typology comprises 12 dimensions of link words/phrases that capture 277 link words/phrases. Using QDA Miner, WordStat, and SPSS—a computer-assisted mixed methods data analysis software, content analysis software, and statistical software, respectively—I analyzed 74 manuscripts that were submitted to the journal Research in ...

We present a speech synthesizer to seamlessly concatenate recorded and synthetic phrases to produce natural sounding and highly expressive speech. Not only the acoustic units, but also the F0 contours are seamlessly concatenated together from recorded and synthetic phrases. When mixed with recorded phrases, the F0 contours of synthetic phrases are generated adaptively relative to the actual sur...