Located in the Semna?n area (midway between Tehran and Khorasan), town of S?ahmirza?d its neighboring villages are home to speakers S?ahmirza?di, a vernacular sharply differing from other language types spoken but closely related Mazandarani across Alborz range north, along Caspian coast. This article studies S?ahmirza?di phonology, grammar, vocabulary, with look at cross-linguistic infl...

Wearable computers will strongly impact the work on a construction site in the near future. These computers are firstly small in size and secondly the persons using them should not be hampered in doing their basic work by the use of mouse, joystick or even keyboard, which are used as input facilities. Oftentimes the only way to put data in the computer under site conditions, is a speech recogni...

This paper describes the development and application of a subphonetic segment recognition system for spoken document retrieval. Following from the development of an open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval system, where the retrieval process is accomplished in the symbolic domain by measuring the distance between the parts of subphonetic segment results from pattern recognition in the acoustic...

The paper describes ongoing empirical research into a fundamental problem of linguistics, viz. the architecture of grammar, or the division of labor between lexicon and grammar. We try to find an answer to this question by investigating which part of the utterances in a recent corpus of spontaneous spoken Dutch consists of “Extended Lexical Units” (ELU’s), hypothesized to be stored in the lexic...

Since its publication in 1985, the outstanding 1,800-page Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, has been the definitive description of the grammar of English and an indispensable reference for any research in the analysis or generation of English that attempts serious coverage of the syntactic phenomena of the langu...

Phrase based language models have been recognized to have an advantage over word based language models since they allow us to capture long span ning dependencies Class based language models have been used to improve model generalization and overcome problems with data sparseness In this pa per we present a novel approach for combining the phrase acquisition with class construction process to au...

The natural language generation component of most dialogue systems is based on templates. Template-based generators are hard to maintain and reuse, and the sentences they produce lack the variability and robustness needed by conversational systems. In this paper, we propose a flexible and domainindependent natural language generator for spoken dialogue systems which combines fixed surface expre...

Design grammars enable the formal representation of a vocabulary and rules that describe how designs can be synthesized just as the grammar rules of a spoken language define how to formulate valid, i.e., grammatically correct, sentences. Design grammars have been successfully applied in numerous engineering disciplines and enable the automated synthesis of designs within a defined design langua...

Poor spoken English has been widespread among Malaysian public university students for decades. Many graduate deficient in and subsequently face an abrupt reality shared by approximately 40,000 jobless fresh graduates each year: oral proficiency employability are correlated Malaysia. The country’s private sector employers have cited poor as one of the leading reasons their rejecting applicants....

To facilitate the development of speech enabled applications and services, we have been working on an example-based semantic grammar authoring tool. Previous studies have shown that the tool has not only significantly reduced the grammar development effort but also yielded grammars of better qualities. However, the tool requires extra human involvement when ambiguities exist in the process of g...