Spoken language dialogue systems represent the peak of achievement in speech technologies in the 20 th century and appear set to form the basis for the increasingly natural interactive systems to follow in the coming decades. This chapter first presents a model of the task-oriented spoken dialogue system, its multiple aspects and some of the remaining research challenges. In the context of this...

Three different speech production paradigms assessed C. T. Kello, D. C. Plaut, and B. MacWhinney's (2000) claim that the characteristics of speech production flexibly vary between staged and cascaded modes depending on task demand. All experiments measured response latencies and durations of single words without and with a response deadline. Experiment 1 used a picture-word interference task; E...

The ABA problem is a fundamental problem that affects almost all lock-free algorithms. The atomic primitives LL/SC/VL (Load-Linked, Store-Conditional, Validate) offer a convenient way for algorithm designers to reason about lock-free algorithms, without concern for the ABA problem. However, for practical architectural reasons, no processor architecture supports the ideal semantics of LL/VL/SC. ...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...

Core vocabulary items (e.g. thing, way) are often viewed as the enemy of effective academic writing, and style guides textbooks advise against using them. However, their bad reputation seems to stem from a single-word perspective that ignores rich phraseological units such tend figure in. In this study, we focus on core lemma thing investigate extent which approach can redeem its reputation. We...

Speeded visual word naming and lexical decision performance are reported for 2428 words for young adults and healthy older adults. Hierarchical regression techniques were used to investigate the unique predictive variance of phonological features in the onsets, lexical variables (e.g., measures of consistency, frequency, familiarity, neighborhood size, and length), and semantic variables (e.g. ...