In this demonstration paper we showcase an extensible and reusable pipeline for automatic paraphrase generation , i.e., reformulating sentences using different words. Capturing the nuances of human language is fundamental to effectiveness Conversational AI systems, as it allows them deal with ways users can utter their requests in natural language. Traditional approaches utterance paraphrasing ...


 This work presents the prosodic analysis of Parenthetical Units in spoken Italian and German within theoretical framework Language into Act Theory (L-AcT), which defines such textual units as Parentheses (PARs), i.e. devices used by speaker to add information utterance on a secondary level text. Data were extracted from Minicorpus DB-IPIC resource FOLK corpus. Linguistic content distribu...

this study is an attempt to answer three questions: first, whether there is a difference between the grammatical competence de- velopment of a group of children aged 2;6 vs. a group of children aged 3;6. second, whether there is a relationship between the children’s age and their mlu on the one hand and their speech and the caretakers’ speech on the other. third, whether or not the normal limit...

A dialogue system is a software program that enables a user to interact with a computer using a natural language (Kang et al. 2014). Since an essential task of the dialogue system is to understand what the user says, it must be able to determine the user’s intention indicated in the user’s utterance. A speech-act is a linguistic action and implies the user’s intention. Therefore, the dialogue s...

The current paper presents a system that generates tones automatically from utterances and sentences. Users were asked to speak a sentence displayed on the screen with any arbitrary tone sequence (level and falling tones is preferred). The system records the utterance, determines the correct tone sequence from the sentence, determiners syllable boundaries by force-aligning the utterance, genera...