This paper describes methods for annotating recorded speech with information hypothesised to be important for the pronunciation of words in discourse context. Annotation is structured into six hierarchically ordered tiers, each tier corresponding to a segmentally defined linguistic unit. Automatic methods are used to segment and annotate the respective annotation tiers. Decision tree models tra...

This paper proposes a statistical zero pronoun resolution method that utilizes features of verbs. In Japanese speech, the subject is often omitted, especially when it is the first person. To resolve such zero pronouns, features related to the verbs such as functional expressions play important roles. However, recent state-of-the-art zero-pronoun resolution systems lack these features because th...

Virginia Woolf, one of the prominent representatives of modernist novelist in England, has contributed significantly to the development of modern novel in both theory and practice. She abandoned traditional fictional devices and formulated her own distinctive techniques. The novels of Woolf tend to be less concerned with outward reality than with the inner life. Her masterpiece, To the Lighthou...