Syntactic and discourse boundaries are signalled by prosodic cues as well as linguistic cues in speech. We investigated whether there is a correspondence between prosodic or linguistic cues and the boundary strengths. We measured the rates of filled pauses (FPs) and conjunctions, and the durations of silent and filled pauses and conjunctions at four types of boundaries in casual presentations i...

Users often have very specific visual content in mind that they are searching for. The most natural way to communicate this content to an image search engine is to use keywords that specify various properties or attributes of the content. A naive way of dealing with such multi-attribute queries is the following: train a classifier for each attribute independently, and then combine their scores ...

objective: discourse disorders of elderly people with alzheimer’s disease affect their ability to communicate and participate in social interaction. this research compares descriptive discourse among elderlies with alzheimer’s disease and healthy elderlies.methods: the method applied in the present study is ex post facto. patients with alzheimer’s disease and the healthy elderlies of tehran mad...

We argue that finite clauses should be regarded as the basic unit in syntactic analysis of spoken language, and describe a method that automatically detects clause boundaries by classifying coordinating conjunctions in spoken language discourse as belonging to either the syntactic level or the discourse level of analysis. The method exploits the special role that coordinating conjunctions play ...

While formal theories of language consider function words to have little semantic content, more recent theoretical work has argued that even function words have meaning. Yet, there is little experimental work on the representations underlying the meaning of function words such as conjunctions. In two offline experiments, we examined whether conjunctions (and, or, but, either...or) are associate...

Abstract This study analyses the role of conjunctions in clause linkage Australian languages. Conjunctions are seemingly straightforward clause-linking devices, but they remain under-studied, both for languages and from a broader typological perspective. In this study, we propose functional definition conjunctions, as set against other resources linkage. We show that captures not just prototypi...