This paper reports on two experiments with a probabilistic part-of-speech tagger, trained on a tagged corpus of written Swedish, being used to tag a corpus of (transcribed) spoken Swedish. The results indicate that with very little adaptations an accuracy rate of 85% can be achieved, with an accuracy rate for known words of 90%. In addition, two different t reatments of pauses were explored but...

This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on cross-language image retrieval via spoken query. Two approaches are proposed to recognize and translate spoken queries. We also propose a similarity-based approach to identify and backward transliterate named entities i...

In a human-machine interaction (dialog) the statistical language variations are large among different stages of the dialog and across different speakers. Moreover, spoken dialog systems require extensive training data for training adaptive language models. In this paper we address the problem of open-vocabulary language models allowing the user for any possible response at each stage of the dia...

In this paper we describe a preliminary, work-in-progress Spoken Language Understanding Software (SLUS) with tailored feedback options, which uses interactive spoken language interface to teach Iraqi Arabic and culture to second language learners. The SLUS analyzes input speech by the second language learner and grades for correct pronunciation in terms of supra-segmental and rudimentary segmen...

Dutch is a language spoken by about 20 million people in the Netherlands and Belgium. This region is not only characterised by a complex dialect situation, but also by the use of two institutionalised varieties of the Standard language: Netherlandic Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands and is documented in Collins & Mees (1982), Mees & Collins (1983) and Gussenhoven (1999), while Belgian Dutch is...

UNLABELLED Plasticity in the visual cortex of blind individuals provides a rare window into the mechanisms of cortical specialization. In the absence of visual input, occipital ("visual") brain regions respond to sound and spoken language. Here, we examined the time course and developmental mechanism of this plasticity in blind children. Nineteen blind and 40 sighted children and adolescents (4...

Automatic spoken language identification (LID) plays an important part in routing foreign callers to operators who speak the caller's language, or as a front-end to a multi-lingual translation system to route the call to the appropriate translation system. A common approach to spoken language ID is adopted from current speaker independent recognition techniques. These generally involve the deve...

This demonstration shows a flexible tutoring system for studying the effects of different tutoring strategies enhanced by a spoken language interface. The hypothesis is that spoken language increases the effectiveness of automated tutoring. The domain is Navy damage control.

Multilingual spoken language corpora are indispensable for research on areas of spoken language communication, such as speech-to-speech translation. The speech and natural language processing essential to multilingual spoken language research requires unified structure and annotation, such as tagging. In this study, we describe an experience with multilingual spoken language corpus development ...

The present study investigated the developmental interrelationships between play, gesture use and spoken language development in children aged 18–31 months. The children completed two tasks: (i) a structured measure of pretend (or ‘symbolic’) play and (ii) a measure of vocabulary knowledge in which children have been shown to gesture. Additionally, their productive spoken language knowledge was...