We present an approach to searching large video corpora for clips which depict a natural-language query in the form of a sentence. Compositional semantics is used to encode subtle meaning differences lost in other approaches, such as the difference between two sentences which have identical words but entirely different meaning: The person rode the horse versus The horse rode the person. Given a...

Although carrier phrases are extensively used in clinical testing of speech recognition, their influence on target identification by hearing-impaired (HI) listeners is poorly understood. The present study examined the effect of sentential context on the identification of the stressed syllable within the target VCV by listeners with mild to severe hearing loss. The study focused on the influence...

We consider di erent ways in which understanding a single word can a ect the overall construal of the discourse event. One such process is frame-shifting, semantic reanalysis in which elements of the existing message-level representation are mapped into a new frame. This view predicts that scenarios which occasion frame-shifting present a challenge to the processor di erent from that presented ...

In this paper, we describe how the LIDAS System (Linguistic Discourse Analysis System), a discourse parser built as an implementation of the Unified Linguistic Discourse Model (U-LDM) uses information from sentential syntax and semantics along with lexical semantic information to build the Open Right Discourse Parse Tree (DPT) that serves as a representation of the structure of the discourse (P...

There is general agreement that sentential syllable vowel stres!! (called prominence by some authors) in American English is marked by pitch risefalls, energy, and duration. None of these cues by themselves is sufficient, instead combinations of these cues are used by talkers to signal stress in continuous speech. After studying the stress marking strategies of 15 talkers of American English, a...