Because Japanese corpora have been developed recently, it has become possible to perform stochastic morphological analysis for Japanese(Nagata, 1994; Takeuchi and Matsumoto, 1995; Mori and Nagao, 1996; Yamamoto et al., 1997). Although the same Hidden Markov Model-based approach as English can be fundamentally applicable with word/part-of-speech n-gram data, some problems peculiar to Japanese ma...

Semantics is a part of linguistic by which it can be analyzed the meaning of the words and sentences of a text and identified the part of speech with regard to semantics. This is a descriptive-analytic research and it deals with studying the meaning of ‘promise’ in the Holy Quran based on principles of semantics with a collocation approach by library methodology. Also, by virtue of ...

Spontaneous speech includes many sentences that fall outside the task domain. Furthermore, the boundary between sentences is often unclear in spontaneous speech because of the likes of corrections, stammering or overlap with the next utterance. We previously developed a sentence spotting system that uses Vector ContinuousDynamic Programming (VCDP). This system works well for sentence spotting i...

Corpus based studies of spontaneous speech showed that filled pauses tended to precede relatively long and complex constituents. We examined whether listeners made use of such a tendency in speech processing. We tested the hypothesis that when listeners heard filled pauses they tended to expect a relatively long and complex phrase to follow. In the experiment participants listened to sentences ...