We present a speech synthesizer to seamlessly concatenate recorded and synthetic phrases to produce natural sounding and highly expressive speech. Not only the acoustic units, but also the F0 contours are seamlessly concatenated together from recorded and synthetic phrases. When mixed with recorded phrases, the F0 contours of synthetic phrases are generated adaptively relative to the actual sur...

We present a speech synthesizer to seamlessly concatenate recorded and synthetic phrases to produce natural sounding and highly expressive speech. Not only the acoustic units, but also the F0 contours are seamlessly concatenated together from recorded and synthetic phrases. When mixed with recorded phrases, the F0 contours of synthetic phrases are generated adaptively relative to the actual sur...

In this paper we will describe a process for mining syntactical verbal subcategorization, i.e. the information about the kind of phrases or clauses a verb goes with. We will use a large text corpus having almost 10,000,000 tagged words as our resource material. Loglinear modeling is used to analyze and automatically identify the subcategorization dependencies. An unsupervised clustering algorit...

This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation of BCCWJ-EyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrases tend to have shorter reading tim...

In this paper, we present a two-stage approach to generating descriptive phrases from the output of a statistical topic model, such as LDA [4]. First, we propose a Bayesian method for selecting statistically significant phrases from a corpus of documents, using inferred parameter values from LDA. Second, the selected phrases are combined with the topic assignments to make a list of candidate ph...

one of most frequently stated phrases of sahifat al-sajjadiyya is related to repentance and asking for god’s pardon for the sins that are not only incompatible with the infallibility of imam al-sajjad (a.s.) but are inconsistent with ordinary human beings as well. this article intends to bring up and study some of the solutions for the above-mentioned enigma. on this basis, in explanation of th...

In this paper, we explore sentiment composition in phrases that have at least one positive and at least one negative word—phrases like happy accident and best winter break. We compiled a dataset of such opposing polarity phrases and manually annotated them with real-valued scores of sentiment association. Using this dataset, we analyze the linguistic patterns present in opposing polarity phrase...

We present an empirical investigation of various ways to automatically identify phrases in a tagged corpus that are useful for dialogue act tagging. We found that a new method (which measures a phrase’s deviation from an optimally-predictive phrase), enhanced with a lexical filtering mechanism, produces significantly better cues than manually-selected cue phrases, the exhaustive set of phrases ...

In this paper, we propose a recursive graph based scheme for semantic annotation of Chinese phrases. Compared with others, this scheme can fully differentiate those Chinese phrases that comprise the same content words but hold different meanings due to their different word order or some involved function words, and capture the hierarchical conceptual structure of Chinese phrases, which underlie...

without any doubt, balance is considered as one of the most significant criticism issues which evaluates similarities among different texts so that it can find to a better understanding and consequently the problems can be solved. thus, it stands in a top position in literary criticism. regarding this significance, this study is dedicated to study balance between al-buhturi and al-sharif al-mor...