Out of dissatisfaction with currently available software, we built a music management program for large digital music libraries. We propose a system that solves some of the difficulties of organizing these libraries. The system introduces a new visual interaction style with the user’s music collection. A physics system coupled to album’s genre information allows the user to spatially order his ...

The goal of this work is to design a machine translation system for a low-resource family of dialects, collectively known as Swiss German. We list the parallel resources that we collected, and present three strategies for normalizing Swiss German input in order to address the regional and spelling diversity. We show that character-based neural MT is the best solution for text normalization and ...

We present a domain-independent topic segmentation algorithm for multi-party speech. Our feature-based algorithm combines knowledge about content using a text-based algorithm as a feature and about form using linguistic and acoustic cues about topic shifts extracted from speech. This segmentation algorithm uses automatically induced decision rules to combine the different features. The embedded...

Short answer questions for reading comprehension are a common task in foreign language learning. Automatic short answer scoring is the task of automatically assessing the semantic content of a student’s answer, marking it e.g. as correct or incorrect. While previous approaches mainly focused on comparing a learner answer to some reference answer provided by the teacher, we explore the use of th...

This paper presents ZOMBILINGO, a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) that allows for the dependency syntax annotation of French corpora. The created resource is freely available on the game Web site. Mots-clés : jeux ayant un but, complexité, annotation, syntaxe en dépendances.

The sixteen essays assembled by Landow and Delany in this volume cover a broad array of topics connected by a concern with "text-based computing" that have applications to the "humanities." The unifying theme in the collection is, to a certain extent, an attempt to assess the impact that the rapid proliferation of networked text corpora and digital communications is having (or might have) in te...

ion Machine / Erotic – The Voyeur of Light (1994) was a temporary site specific installation in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia. A text was generated by randomly drawing from a pre-authored database of textual fragments. The security eyepiece was inverted to let people view into the room from the hallway. Expecting to be a voyeur, the participant unpredictably saw a text presented via compute...

This article presents the results we obtained on a complex annotation task (that of dependency syntax) using a specifically designed Game with a Purpose, ZombiLingo.1 We show that with suitable mechanisms (decomposition of the task, training of the players and regular control of the annotation quality during the game), it is possible to obtain annotations whose quality is significantly higher t...

A boundary-annotated and part-of-speech tagged corpus is a prerequisite for developing phrase break classifiers. Boundary annotations in English speech corpora are descriptive, delimiting intonation units perceived by the listener. We take a novel approach to phrase break prediction for Arabic, deriving our prosodic annotation scheme from Tajwīd (recitation) mark-up in the Qur‟an which we then ...