Software development is a continuous decision-making process that mainly relies on the software engineer’s experience and intuition. One of essential decisions in early stages selecting best fitting programming language ecosystem based project requirements. A significant number criteria, such as developer availability consistent documentation, addition to available options market, lead challeng...

We introduce a methodology for concept learning from texts that relies upon second-order reasoning about statements expressed in a ((rst-order) terminological representation language. This metareasoning approach allows for quality-based evaluation and selection of alternative concept hypotheses. Abstract We introduce a methodology for concept learning from texts that relies upon second-order re...

Language acquisition and processing are governed by genetic constraints. A crucial unresolved question is how far these genetic constraints have co-evolved with language, perhaps resulting in a highly specialized, and species-specific language “module”; and how far language acquisition and processing redeploy pre-existing cognitive machinery. Here, we aim to understand the circumstances under w...

Language acquisition and processing are governed by genetic constraints. A crucial unresolved question is how far these genetic constraints have coevolved with language, perhaps resulting in a highly specialized and species-specific language "module," and how much language acquisition and processing redeploy preexisting cognitive machinery. In the present work, we explored the circumstances und...

We present the design, implementation and assessment of a high-quality unit-selection speech synthesis system for Bulgarian which, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the first such synthesizer for the Bulgarian language. The paper presents implementation details for each component of the system, emphasizing on language-specific aspects and arguing that corpus-based unit-selection synthes...

The ACTOR® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at Loquendo S.p.A., is here described. The system employs a unit -selection concatenative synthesis technique, relying on labeled acoustic databases providing phonetic and prosodic coverage of the intended language/domain and on an original algorithm for run-time selection of the acoustic units to be concatenated. This technique yields...