Annotation of digitized pages from historical document collections is very important to research on automatic extraction of text blocks, lines, and handwriting recognition. We have recently introduced a new handwritten text database, GERMANA, which is based on a Spanish manuscript from 1891. To our knowledge, GERMANA is the first publicly available database mostly written in Spanish and compara...

The main aim of this study is to describe the process of creating a speech database to be used in corpus based text-to-speech synthesis. To help achieve natural sounding speech synthesis, the database construction was aimed at rich phonetic and prosodic coverage based on variable length units (phoneme, diphone, triphone) from different phonetic and prosodic contexts. Following previous work on ...

We present an efficient algorithm for the redundancy elimination problem: Given an underspecified semantic representation (USR) of a scope ambiguity, compute an USR with fewer mutually equivalent readings. The algorithm operates on underspecified chart representations which are derived from dominance graphs; it can be applied to the USRs computed by largescale grammars. We evaluate the algorith...

Due to the increasing use of network-based systems, there is a growing interest in access to and search mechanisms for text databases in languages other than English. To adapt searching systems to those foreign languages with characteristics similar to the English language, all we need to do for the most part is to establish a general stopword list and a stemming procedure. This article present...

A new database project has been launched in Estonia last year. It aims the collection of telephone speech from a large number of speakers for speech and speaker recognition purposes. Up to 2000 speakers are expected to participate in recordings. SpeechDat databases, especially Finnish SpeechDat, have been chosen as a prototype for the Estonian database. It means that principles of corpus design...

‘Linguistic annotation’ is a term covering any transcription, translation or annotation of textual data or recorded linguistic signals. While there are several ongoing efforts to provide formats and tools for such annotations and to publish annotated linguistic databases, the lack of widely accepted standards is becoming a critical problem. Proposed standards, to the extent they exist, have foc...

This article describes the collection and analysis of a Swedish database of spontaneous and unconstrained children–machine dialogues. The Swedish NICE corpus consists of spoken dialogues between children aged 8 to 15 and embodied fairytale characters in a computer game scenario. Compared to previously collected corpora of children’s computer-directed speech, the Swedish NICE corpus contains ext...

The situation with regard to Russian language resources is fragmented and disorganized. For this reason, it is important to promote for Russian the development of its basic resources in one package that could be used for development of speech products. The paper presents a design of the Russian lexical databases, corpora and supporting tools (system for construction and support of lexical datab...

Nanomedicine is an emerging discipline aimed to applying recent developments in nanotechnology to the medical domain. In recent years, there has been an exponential growth of the number of available nanomedical resources. The latter are aimed to different tasks and include databases, nanosensors, implantable materials, etc. This leads to the necessity of creating new methods to automatically or...

Graph analytics algorithms leverage quantifiable structural properties of the data to predict interesting concepts and relationships. The same information, however, can be represented using many different structures and the structural properties observed over particular representations do not necessarily hold for alternative structures. Because these algorithms tend to be highly effective over ...