Pronunciation-by-analogy (PbA) is an emerging technique for text-phoneme conversion based on a psychological model of reading aloud. This paper explores the impact of certain basic implementational choices on the performance of various PbA models. These have been tested on their ability to pronounce sets of short pseudowords previously used in similar studies, as well as lexical words temporari...

Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems require access to collocational information to help determine lexical choices constrained both by syntactic and semantic concerns. Constructing linguistic resources to support these decisions can be time-consuming whereas, if the information is extracted automatically, data sparsity limits the variety of the output. This paper reports on a method for ex...

In this paper, we show how a constraint-based approach influences the modelling of preposition lexicalization in natural language generation. We concentrate on the linguistic description, which is the most challenging. The CSP procedures themselves are then rather straightforward. Preposition choice depends on the verb and its requirements, on the one hand, and the characteristics of the NP the...

This paper reports on an investigation of lexical selfrepair in Dutch spontaneous dialogue. Lexical selfrepairs, in which one word is rejected for another, can be produced with or without notable ̳prosodic marking‘ of the second word. It remains unclear what motivates speakers‘ choices, but previous research has shown that the semantic distance between the two words is relevant. This study asse...

The term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. Estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. It should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

This paper describes a treebanking project for Hindi/Urdu. We are annotating dependency syntax, lexical predicate-argument structure, and phrase structure syntax in a coordinated and partly automated manner. The paper focuses on choices in syntactic representation, and the stages we think are most appropriate for annotating differnt types of information.

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

People learn language from their social environment. As individuals differ in their social networks, they might be exposed to input with different lexical distributions, and these might influence their linguistic representations and lexical choices. In this article we test the relation between linguistic performance and 3 social network properties that should influence input variability, namely...