Guoying Gao,1,2 Roald Hoffmann,2,* N. W. Ashcroft,3,* Hanyu Liu,1 Aitor Bergara,4,5,6 and Yanming Ma1,* 1State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA 3Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 148...

Feature selection for spontaneous speech analysis to aid in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis: A fractal dimension approach Karmele López-de-Ipiña a,∗, Jordi Solé-Casals b, Harkaitz Eguiraun c, J.B. Alonso d, C.M. Travieso d, Aitzol Ezeiza a, Nora Barroso a, Miriam Ecay-Torres e, Pablo Martinez-Lage e, Blanca Beitia f a Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of the Basque Coun...

This paper describes the implementation of the Aholab entry for the Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-in the Gap. Our approach in this work makes use of an HTS based Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesizer for Basque to generate the singing voice. The prosody related parameters provided by the TTS system for a spoken version of the score are modified to adapt them to the requirements of the music scor...

This paper describes the work carried out to select the most suitable set of Sublexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque. Even if there are several dialects in Basque, only one of them has been used to choose the preliminary set of sounds. Bearing in mind this aim, a wide experimentation has been carried out to select Context Independent Phone-Like Units. Then, in order to obta...

Information Retrieval (IR) applications require appropriate Multimodal Resources to develop all of their components. The work described in this paper is one of the main steps of a broader project that consists in developing a Multimodal Index System for Information Retrieval. The final goal of this part of the project is to create a robust Automatic Speech Recognition System for Basque that als...

M. Alcántara Ortigoza,1,2 I. Yu. Sklyadneva,3,2,4 R. Heid,2,* E. V. Chulkov,3,5,4,6 T. S. Rahman,1 K.-P. Bohnen,2 and P. M. Echenique3,5,6 1Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA 2Institut für Festkörperphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 3Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Ba...

AnHitz is a prototype of a virtual Basque-speaking 3D expert that can answer questions or perform cross-lingual searches on science and technology, and show the search results in Basque by means of machine translation. It has been named after the 3-year strategic research project on language, speech and visual technologies for Basque carried out by several organizations, and built as a demonstr...

The application of the formalism of two-level morphology to Basque and its use in the elaboration of the XUXEN spell ing checker/corrector are described. This application is intended to cover a large part of the language. Because Basque is a highly inflected language, the approach of spelling checking and correction has been conceived as a by-product of a general purpose morphological analyzer/...

This paper deals with the exploitation of dictionaries for the semi-automatic construction of lexicons and lexical knowledge bases. The final goal of our research is to enrich the Basque Lexical Database with semantic information such as senses, definitions, semantic relations, etc., extracted from a Basque monolingual dictionary. The work here presented focuses on the extraction of the semanti...

This article presents the project «Towards a Joint Construction of Future Scenarios Basque». The had two aims: to help shape new phase pro-Basque move-ment for next decades, and design interpretative framework comprehend develop revitalization process Basque. We will describe theoretical methodological basis framework, which we have named KOHiKoGa Model (acronym development linguistic community...