The focus on communications technology in recent years has led to the question of how to best display electronic text onto small-screened devices. Past studies have shown that the compact method of rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) is e cient but not well liked. Two experiments were conducted to explore ways of improving the preference for and feasibility of RSVP. In experiment 1, the eŒ...

This paper reports our initial experiments with automatic punctuation annotation from speech. We have focused on Czech broadcast news speech. The task can be defined as a classification of each inter-word boundary into one of target classes. We considered comma, sentence boundary and “no punctuation” as the target classes. We employed two statistical models – prosodic model and language model. ...

In this paper, we compare the performance of a state-of-the-art statistical parser (Bikel, 2004) in parsing written and spoken language and in generating subcategorization cues from written and spoken language. Although Bikel’s parser achieves a higher accuracy for parsing written language, it achieves a higher accuracy when extracting subcategorization cues from spoken language. Our experiment...

In this paper we propose an approach to predict punctuation marks for unsegmented speech transcript. The approach is purely lexical, with pre-trained Word Vectors as the only input. A training model of Deep Neural Network (DNN) or Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is applied to classify whether a punctuation mark should be inserted after the third word of a 5-words sequence and which kind of p...

In written language, punctuation is used to separate main and subordinate clause. In spoken language, ambiguities arise due to missing punctuation, but clause boundaries are often marked prosodically and can be used instead. We detect PCBs (Prosodically marked Clause Boundaries)by using prosodic features (duration, intonation, energy, and pause information) with a neural network, achieving a re...

In clinical dictation, speakers try to be as concise as possible to save time, often resulting in utterances without explicit punctuation commands. Since the end product of a dictated report, e.g. an out-patient letter, does require correct orthography, including exact punctuation, the latter need to be restored, preferably by automated means. This paper describes a method for punctuation resto...

Framed within the fields of applied linguistics and language play, writing three attainment groups 9–11-year-old children was used to investigate their use ludic (playful) punctuation in composition an imaginative narrative. The scripts were from a larger repeat-design study development that addressed range linguistic features. It became apparent contained play features, including punctuation, ...

Inserting proper punctuation marks and deleting speech disfluencies are two of the most essential tasks in spoken language processing. This challenging task has prompted extensive research using various techniques, such as conditional random fields. Neural networks, however, are relatively under-explored for this task. Combining different modeling techniques with different advantages has the po...