Spoken language has a complex multi-dimensional compositional structure that enables the rich productivity so characteristic of this most important human biosignal. Even the utterance of a single vowel sound, such as [o] or [i], requires the talker to coordinate gestures of the lip and tongue with gestures of the respiratory-laryngeal system, to combine the timbre properties of the vowel with a...

This study draws from a large corpus of Congressional speeches from the 101st to the 110th Congress (1989–2008), to examine gender differences in language use in a setting of political debates. Female legislators’ speeches demonstrated characteristics of both a feminine language style (e.g. more use of emotion words, fewer articles) and a masculine one (e.g. more nouns and long words, fewer per...

We study in this paper the cohesion of a leader’s speeches over time. This is part of a larger project that aims at investigating the language of leaders and how their language changes over their stay in power. Here, we analyze the speeches of a leader who stayed in power for a long period of time, i.e. more than 30 years. We measure cohesion of speeches in the original language, which is...

Highlighting the recurrence of topics usage in candidates speeches is a key feature to identify the main ideas of each candidate during a political campaign. In this paper, we present a method combining standard topic modeling with signature mining for analyzing topic recurrence in speeches of Clinton and Trump during the 2016 American presidential campaign. The results show that the method ext...

This study has introduced the Art in a new vision to increase the understanding of Saudi Art at the International level. The focus was on architecture patterns (in Al_Haram Al_Madini) and literature (poems, speeches). It is achieved through introducing the Art through the eyes of symmetry as new concept embedded in the art. The aims of the study are: 1. to explore the characteristics of Saudi A...

In this paper, we propose a method for supporting knowledge creation in a community by talking with virtualized-egos. We propose two ideas for the community knowledge creation. The first idea is talking with virtualized community member called ”virtualized-ego”; a virtualized-ego is a software agent that mimics a community member. Virtualized-egos replay past speeches of community members and g...

Access to historical audio collections is typically very restricted: content is often only available on physical (analog) media and the metadata is usually limited to keywords, giving access at the level of relatively large fragments, e.g., an entire tape. Many spoken word heritage collections are now being digitized, which allows the introduction of more advanced search technology. This paper ...