The ROMVOX Text-toaSpeech synthesis system developed by our team is the first one that allowed the synthesis of any unrestricted Romanian text with intonation facilities on 1BM-PC compatible computers. During the last years of research several version of text-to-speech systems were achieved, trying to enhance their facilities. Our paper describes the present stage of our experiments performed i...

We present a next-generation architecture that addresses problems of dependability, maintainability, and manageability of I/O devices and their software drivers on the PC platform. Our architecture resolves both hardware and software issues, exploiting emerging hardware features to improve device safety. Our high-performance implementation, based on the Xen virtual machine monitor, provides an ...

Ontologies are used in several application domains for representing knowledge. The defined approaches differ according to the type of addressed ontology (conceptual or linguistic) and to the used ontology model (e.g., OWL or PLIB). Several languages have been proposed to manipulate ontologies and their instances, especially in the Semantic Web domain. However these languages are often specific ...

Processing sentences describing actions performed by the hearer (e.g. You gave Andy a pizza) primes actually performing a motor action compatible with the one described (Glenberg & Kaschak 2002), This result has been interpreted as indicating that processing meaning involves the activation of motor control circuitry to prepare the language understander for situated action. A complementary view ...

Both the notion of Property Graphs (PG) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) are commonly used models for representing graph-shaped data. While there exist some systemspecific solutions to convert data from one model to the other, these solutions are not entirely compatible with one another and none of them appears to be based on a formal foundation. In fact, for the PG model, there doe...

AML/X is a modern general purpose high level programming language, aimed at applications in manufacturing and computer aided design. It includes features for both conventional and cPbject-oriented programming. The AML/X interpreter is implemented in C and has been ported to IBM 370, Motorola 68000, and IBM PC hardware, running under CMS, UNIX, XENIX, and DOS. This paper describes the rationale ...

We show that a constraint language with compatible Jónnson terms (i.e. associated with an algebra generating a congruence distributive variety) defines a Constraint Satisfaction Problem solvable by the local consistency checking algorithm.