This paper presents a demonstration of a stochastic prosody tool for enrichment of synthesized speech using SSML prosody tags applied over hierarchical thematicity spans in the context of a CTS application. The motivation for using hierarchical thematicity is exemplified, together with the capabilities of the module to generate a variety of SSML prosody tags within a controlled range of values ...

The surface form of sentences in Lushootseed is governed primarily by considerations of Communicative Structure, in particular Thematicity. This paper will argue that Thematicity, rather than part of speech, governs the selection of the syntactic predicate in Lushootseed, and will offer some preliminary formal treatments of the phenomenon in terms of ranked constraints governing the transition ...

English sentences such as I consider John smart have long presented analytic ambiguity between a “small clause” analysis and a “predication” analysis, and the apparently equivalent sentence-type in Greek, e.g. presents similar problems. Here it is argued that additional evidence from each language, involving constructions that are sensitive to the thematicity of an object NP, shows that these s...

Information Structure (IS) determines the “communicative” segmentation of the meaning of an utterance, which makes it central to the semantics–syntax– intonation interface and therefore also to NLP. Despite this relevance, IS has not received much attention in the context of the majority of the reference treebanks for data-driven NLP that already contain a semantic and syntactic layers of annot...

This paper reports on the use of corpora for the construction of a computational grammar of Spanish, contrastive with English, in the application context of Multilingual Natural Language Generation (MLG). The theoretical framework for this work is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and the computational context provided by KPML (Komet Penman Multilingual), an extensive grammar development en...

Abstract The correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms Information Structure and way this reflects aspects by means prosody have been fruitful field study Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack variability richness found human speech how humans display their communication skills. Some attempts were made past to model one aspect Structure, nam...

The present study aimed to find out thematic organization and progression in the argumentative writing of Iranian learners of English, representing two levels of language proficiency, and the introduction section of published Research articles (RAs) of Applied Linguistics. For this aim, 60 articles were downloaded from three journals and also 92 MA and BA students majoring in English Language T...

Several studies have employed the theme-rheme construct to examine the generic profile of research articles (RAs). However, they have mostly focused on the subject matter and nature of disciplines, and other disciplinary characteristics as contextual factors which can impact the genre realization have not been considered in the discourse analysis research. This work, therefore, inve...