In this paper a new approach towards the analysis of speech rhythm is presented. In the speech rhythm literature it was often discussed that rhythmic phenomena are more transparent in the metrical structure of orally produced poetry. However, up to now only a few phoneticians have worked on this special speaking style. For analyzing the rhythmic and prosodic patterns of this kind of speech, a c...

Vertebrate and most invertebrate organisms interact with their environment through processes of adaptation and learning. Such processes are generally controlled by complex networks of nerve cells, or neurons, and their interactions. Neurons are characterized by all-or-none discharges—the spikes— and the time series corresponding to the sequences of the discharges—the spike trains — carry most o...

As a prerequisite to translation of poetry, we implement the ability to produce translations with meter and rhyme for phrase-based MT, examine whether the hypothesis space of such a system is flexible enough to accomodate such constraints, and investigate the impact of such constraints on translation quality.

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Within a broader context of visual and musical symmetry patterns, we explore biblical parallelism, the poetic symmetry patterns of the Bible. We present six frequently occurring parallel forms – simple, chiastic, elliptical, sequential, unequal length, and repeated words. These six forms are broad enough to include many known examples of biblical parallelism. Our major contribution is a system ...

The Lagrangian coder control together with the parameter choice is presented that lead to the creation of the new hybrid video coder specifications TMN-10 for H.263 and TML for H.26L. An efEcient approach for the determination of the encoding parameters is developed. It is shown by means of experimental results that the Lagrange multiplier for the macroblock mode decision corre sponds to the ne...

Linguistic creativity is a marriage of form and content in which each works together to convey our meanings with concision, resonance and wit. Though form clearly influences and shapes our content, the most deft formal trickery cannot compensate for a lack of real insight. Before computers can be truly creative with language, we must first imbue them with the ability to formulate meanings that ...

Software development in parallel/distributed environment is a non-trivial task and depends greatly on the availability of appropriate support in terms of development tools and environments. Perforamnce pre-diction/evaluation tools form a critical part of any software development environment as they enable the developer to visualize the eeects of various design choices on the performance of the ...

a volume. The matter has been well selected, the diction is terse and simple, the numerous illustrations are quite as good as in any English text-book, and one cannot help thinking that this book will prove a serious rival to the much more bulky works, such as Gray, Morris, &c., and we shall indeed be surprised if a successful career does not await this book, if the second volume be as good as ...