The perceived prominence of three parts of speech (POS), nouns, verbs and adjectives, in three utterance positions, initial, intermediate and final, were examined in a perceptual experiment to see whether previously observed reductions in prominence of intermediate items were the result of positional effects or because words in this position belonged to the same POS, namely verbs. It was found ...

Story link detection has been regarded as a core technology for other Topic Detection and Tracking tasks such as new event detection. In this paper we analyze story link detection and new event detection in a retrieval framework and examine the effect of a number of techniques, including part of speech tagging, new similarity measures, and an expanded stop list, on the performance of the two de...

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Phrase break prediction is very important for speech synthesis. Traditional methods of phrase break prediction have used linguistic resources like part-of-speech (POS) sequence information for modeling these breaks. In the context of Indian languages, we propose to look at syllable level features and explore the use of word-terminal syllables to model phrase breaks. We hypothesize that these te...

With the growing number of textual resources available, the ability to understand them becomes critical. An essential first step in understanding these sources is the ability to identify the parts-of-speech in each sentence. Arabic is a morphologically rich language, which presents a challenge for part of speech tagging. In this paper, our goal is to propose, improve, and implement a part-of-sp...