The current paper presents preliminary work towards the integration of the Fujisaki model into the VnVoice Vietnamese TTS system, based on a set of rules to control the F0 contour. A speech corpus consisting of 20 sentences was compiled. Each of the sentences can have various meanings depending on the tone associated with a monosyllabic keyword which it contains. The corpus with a total of 46 s...

This paper proposes a novel method of building polarity-tagged corpus from HTML documents. The characteristics of this method is that it is fully automatic and can be applied to arbitrary HTML documents. The idea behind our method is to utilize certain layout structures and linguistic pattern. By using them, we can automatically extract such sentences that express opinion. In our experiment, th...

background and aim: with regard to the shortage of proper materials in persian for the evaluation of speech perception in children, this study aimed to develop the persian version of the bkb sentence test, and determine its content validity in normal persian speaking children aged 6-12 years. methods: this study was an applied research. the study procedure comprised sentence construction, deter...

researchers of language teaching believe that teaching method has a lot of impact on the speed and depth of learning. the importance of this is so obvious on teaching some persian language structures which are syntactically and semantically complicated. one of these structures is conditional sentences which has been considered in this study. here we tried to teach conditional sentences via both...

This study aimed to investigate how Iranian EFL learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. This query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. For this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

We discuss a modular strategy to robust parsing that is used in an information retrieval system. A two-stage model is presented, consisting of a parser and a transformational module for reanalyzing robustly parsed sentences. Provisional results are given.