We described Dublin City University (DCU)’s participation in the Search sub-task of the Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2014. Exploratory experiments were carried out to investigate the utility of prosodic prominence features in the task of retrieving relevant video segments from a collection of BBC videos. Normalised acoustic correlates of loudness, pitch, and duration were incorpora...

Trans-disubstituted beta-lactams show increasing utility and prominence in numerous pharmaceutical applications, making their asymmetric synthesis an attractive goal for chemists. We introduce an anionic, nucleophilic catalyst system that provides an efficient, diastereoselective route to trans-disubstituted beta-lactams, a complement to our previously described catalytic methodology for genera...

This paper compares prominence that listeners perceive with actual articulatory prominence. We calculated phrasal boundaries from articulatory patterns using an algorithm of the C/D model, and compared those calculated boundaries with perceived boundaries. The jaw displacements, measures of prominence, were measured using EMA; articulatory boundaries were derived from a C/D model algorithm. The...

the present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in grass’s the tin drum. although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, oskar matzerath, in the light of the bakhtinian ...

We propose an unsupervised prominence prediction method for expressive speech synthesis. Prominence patterns are learned by statistical analysis of prosodic features extracted from speech data. The advantages of our unsupervised datadriven prominence prediction include: easy adaptation to new speakers, speech styles, and even languages without requiring expert knowledge or complicated linguisti...