In this article, we present a test environment for a word analysis system that is used for reliable and sense-conveying hyphenation of German words. A crucial task is the hyphenation of compound words, a huge set of those can readily be formed from existing words. Due to this fact, testing and checking all existing words for correct hyphenation is infeasible. Therefore we have developed special...

A crucial aspect in the design of navigational aids for the blind is the transmission of information to the user. Vibrotactile stimulation is a preferred means, as opposed to auditory stimuli that may interfere with the use of environmental auditory cues for situational awareness. Conveying directional information is of particular importance and has traditionally be achieved with several tactor...

Human Computer Interface for communication is a very powerful and most current area of research because the human world is getting more and more digitize and one wants the digital systems to behave like a human being. This requires the digital systems to imitate the human behavior accurately. Emotion is one aspect of human behavior which plays an important role in human feeling and decision mak...

We investigated whether acoustic variation of musical properties can analogically convey descriptive information about an object. Specifically, we tested whether information from the temporal structure in music interacts with perception of a visual image to form an analog perceptual representation as a natural part of music perception. In Experiment 1, listeners heard music with an accelerating...

One of the key characteristics of any summary is that it must be concise. To achieve this the content of the summary (1) must be focused on the key events, and (2) should leave out any information that she audience can infer on their own. We have recently begun a project on summarizing simple narrative stories. In our approach, we assume that the focus of the story has already been determined a...

In the field of visual art, metaphor is a way to communicate meaning to the viewer. We present a computational system for communicating visual metaphor that can identify adjectives for describing an image based on a low-level visual feature representation of the image. We show that the system can use this visual-linguistic association to render source images that convey the meaning of adjective...

When conveying information about spatial situations and goals, speakers adapt flexibly to their addressee. Our aim is to equip our dialogue system with the communicative abilities required for such a natural, adaptive dialogue. In this paper we investigate how humans react to other humans and to a dialogue system when giving route descriptions with a map. We focus on two aspects of spatial lang...

We present a system for summarizing transcripts of conversational dialogues based on lexical chaining. The experiments were carried out with twenty Switchboard dialogues (LDC, 1993). We designed and implemented four summarization methods employing lexical chains as their source representation. The summarization task is defined as extracting the most relevant utterances conveying the meaning of ...

It is generally acknowledged that a hanging cantilevered pipe conveying fluid becomes unstable by flutter-type instability at critical flow velocity; moreover, the undergoes periodic self-excited oscillations in post-flutter region. Additionally, velocity increases when magnetized exposed to an actuating parallel magnetic field. The question arises as whether field leads lessening oscillation a...

In this study, it was aimed to determine the pneumatic conveying characteristics of canola seeds (Brasicca napus Oleifera sp). The physical properties, pressure drop, air velocity, power consumption Turan variety were investigated. Three different moisture, three pipe diameters, material feed flow rates and five velocities used effects these factors on examined. carried out at positive conveyor...