Disfluency is a characteristic feature of spontaneous human speech, commonly seen as a consequence of problems with production. However, the question remains open as to why speakers are disfluent: Is it a mechanical by-product of planning difficulty, or do speakers use disfluency in dialogue to manage listeners' expectations? To address this question, we present two experiments investigating th...

This paper presents our recent work on language identi-cation research using conversational speech (the LDC Conversational Telephone Speech Database). The base-line system used in this study was developed recently ((4, 5]). It is based on language-dependent phone recognition and phonotactic constraints. The system was trained using monologue data and obtained an error rate of around 9% on a com...

The MONOLOGUE system (Multi-Object Negotiator for On-Line Offers Guided by Utility Elicitation) for privacy negotiation is described. It integrates a number of innovative components. Negotiations are alternating offers, where each offer may have multiple attributes which can be scalar-, discreteor set-valued, and so are general enough to allow P3P statements to be negotiated. It relies on the P...

This short paper gives an introduction into electronic product catalogs and classification systems such as eCl@ss or UN/SPSC used in this domain. The role of classification systems to foster interoperability of catalog based enterprise systems is explained as well as problems that occur. Afterwards an approach is presented that aims in compensating these problems with the help of a mediating sy...

La poésie tamoule dite du Sangam, vieille de deux millénaires, est souvent qualifiée « paysage ». Elle pourrait être ainsi comparée à la chinoise shanshui, qui lui un peu postérieure (4ème siècle après J.C.). Dans quelle mesure les poètes indiens l'époque portaient-ils une réelle attention au ? Se pourrait-il que cette littérature puisse relever, selon l’expression d’Augustin Berque (2016), d’u...

Twenty ten-minute oral presentations made by Swedish students speaking English have been analyzed with respect to the standard deviation of F0 over long stretches of speech. Values have been normalized by division with the mean. Results show a strong correlation between proficiency in English and pitch variation for male speakers but not for females. The results also identify monotone and disfl...