A multi-language, portable text-to-speech system has been developed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The system contains a formant speech synthesizer on a signal processing chip, a powerful microcomputer and a variety of text input equipment. A special attachment is a 500-symbol Bliss Board. Swedish and English Bliss-tespeech programs trans form a symbol string to the correspo...

Online reference books may be thought of as knowledge bases. We describe here how information in the text of machine-readable dictionary entries can be processed to help determine the proper attachment of prepositional phrases and relative clauses; the resolution of some cases of pronoun reference; and the interpretation of dangling modifiers. This approach also suggests the possibility of bypa...

This paper concerns one aspect of work in progress on a PhD thesis on the complementation of nouns in English (See Bowen (forthcoming)). The purpose of the thesis is to give a description of nouns and their complements which will prove of interest to linguists but will also be of interest, from a pedagogical point of view, to learners of English. Although there are extensive surveys of the noun...

Probabilistic models have been effective in resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity, but sparse data remains a significant problem. We propose a solution based on similarity-based smoothing, where the probability of new PPs is estimated with information from similar examples generated using a thesaurus. Three thesauruses are compared on this task: two existing generic thesauruses an...

3. Caution.....don’t plagiarize! 4. If a term needs to be explained....explain it! !" A thesaurus can be your best friend! 1. Look for repetition of a word or phrase within your first draft. 2. Ask yourself what other word or phrase could you use. 3. Use the thesaurus! !" KISS....Keep it short & sweet! 1. Look for ways to use the positive verses the negative. 2. Focus on the educational implica...