In recent years, author profiling (AP) has become a very relevant task for natural language processing (NLP). The main goal of 43 Research in Computing Science 115 (2016) pp. 43–56; rec. 2016-04-22; acc. 2016-05-15 AP is automatically determine demographic aspects from an author, for example, genre and age. In this paper we present a method for author profiling; particularly, we are interested ...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the results of a study concerning the prosodic interpretation of punctuation. The focus is placed on the two most common punctuation marks, that is to say, full stops and commas. The findings are based on a comparison between The Stranger by Albert Camus the way it is published as a book and the way it is read out by its author in two French ra...

In this paper, we discuss a combined system for punctuation generation and speech recognition. This system incorporates prosodic information with acoustic and language model information. Experiments are conducted for both the reference transcriptions and speech recogniser outputs. For the reference transcription case, prosodic information is shown to be more useful than language model informati...

The following material presents a study about recovering punctuation marks, and capitalization information from European Portuguese broadcast news speech transcriptions. Different approaches were tested for capitalization, both generative and discriminative, using: finite state transducers automatically built from language models; and maximum entropy models. Several resources were used, includi...

Abstract The writing of 38 9–10-year-old children was used to investigate their use ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition two kinds writing, imaginative narrative and persuasive description. Framed within a consideration language play general, children’s particular, investigation revealed ways which primary children, without being prompted do so, playful order achieve communicative aim...

More than developing a study on punctuation, this paper intends to explore the uses of punctuation as window syntactic awareness or metasyntactic abilities. Different theoretical models identify several degrees conscious access linguistic knowledge and types metalinguistic verbalizations. The analysis canonical deviant in adult academic writing contributes characterization different awareness, ...

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