OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of data-driven instruction (DDI) on spoken language outcomes of children with cochlear implants and hearing aids. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, matched-pairs comparison of post-treatment speech/language data of children who did and did not receive DDI. SETTING Private, spoken-language preschool for children with hearing loss. SUBJECTS Eleven matched pairs of ...

Abstract In this introductory paper to the special issue on “Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction”, we aim guide reader into current work “chunking” of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted methodological frameworks Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics – two approaches that consider interactional aspect humans talking with each other be a crucial starting point for its analysi...

A stochastically based approach for the semantic analysis component of a natural spoken language system for the ATIS task has been developed. The semantic analyzer of the spoken language system already in use at LIMSI makes use of a rule-based case grammar. In this work, the system of rules for the semantic analysis is replaced with a relatively simple, first order Hidden Markov Model. The perf...

This paper addresses the problem of language modeling for LVCSR of Cantonese spoken in daily communication. As a spoken dialect, Cantonese is not used in written documents and published materials. Thus it is difficult to collect sufficient amount of written Cantonese text data for the training of statistical language models. We propose to solve this problem by translating standard Chinese text,...

In language communication, an utterance may be segmented as a concatenation of chunks that are reasonable in syntax, meaningful in semantics, and composed of several words. Usually, the order of words within chunks is fixed, and the order of chunks within an utterance is rather flexible. The improvement of spoken language translation could benefit from using bilingual chunks. This paper present...

The prevalent state of the art in spoken language understanding by spoken dialog systems is both modular and whole-utterance. It is modular in that incoming utterances are processed by independent components that handle different aspects, such as acoustics, syntax, semantics, and intention / goal recognition. It is whole-utterance in that each component completes its work for an entire utteranc...