Dynamic time warping has been shown to be an effective method of handling variations in the time scale of polysyllabic words spoken in isolation. This class of techniques has recently been applied to connected word recognition with high degrees of success. In this paper a level building technique is proposed for optimally time aligning a sequence of connected words with a sequence of isolated w...

Bilingual corpora play an important role as resources not only for machine translation research and development but also for studying tasks in comparative linguistics. Manual annotation of word alignments is of significance to provide a gold-standard for developing and evaluating machine translation models and comparative linguistics tasks. This paper presents research on building an English-Vi...

Overview Incremental processing of both syntax and semantics, both in parsing and generation, is of significant interest for modelling the human language capability, and for building systems which interact with it. Formal linguistics has made significant contributions to this; one example is the framework Dynamic Syntax, which provides an inherently word-by-word incremental grammatical framewor...

The interest and demand to foreign language learning are increased tremendously along with the globalization and freedom of movement in the world. Today, the technological developments allow the creation of supportive materials for foreign language learners. However, the language acquisition between languages with high typological differences still poses challenges for this area and the learnin...

The article investigates the linguistic and extralinguistic nature of contamination – a word-building pattern that seems to be on the rise in modern English. The relative productivity of contamination is traced down to several factors: first, the speaker’s intention to assert his individuality through punning and word-juggling; second, saving up time and physical and mental effort; third, camou...

Bilingual corpora play an important role as resources not only for machine translation research and development but also for studying tasks in comparative linguistics. Manual annotation of word alignments is of significance to provide a gold-standard for developing and evaluating machine translation models and comparative linguistics tasks. This paper presents research on building an English-Vi...

The design of speech recognition system based on acoustically-derived, segmental units can be divided in three steps: unit design, lexicon building and pronunciation modeling. We formulate an iterative unit design procedure which consistently uses a maximum likelihood (ML) objective in successive application of resegmentation and model re-estimation. The lexicon building allows multi-word entri...

Language Learning and Development Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653671 Building a Word-Form Lexicon in the Face of Variable Input: Influences of Pitch and Amplitude on Early Spoken Word Recognition Leher Singh a; Katherine S. White b; James L. Morgan b a Boston University, b Brown University,

We present a novel method for improving disambiguation accuracy by building an optimal ensemble (OE) of systems where we predict the best available system for target word using a priori case factors (e.g. amount of training per sense). We report promising results of a series of best-system prediction tests (best prediction accuracy is 0.92) and show that complex/simple systems disambiguate toug...

Children's assignment of novel words to nameless objects, over objects whose names they know (mutual exclusivity; ME) has been described as a driving force for vocabulary acquisition. Despite their ability to use ME to fast-map words (Preissler & Carey, 2005), children with autism show impaired language acquisition. We aimed to address this puzzle by building on studies showing that correct ref...