Teachers can assess the pronunciations of students independently of extra-linguistic features such as age and gender observed in the students’ utterances. This capacity is, however, difficult to realize on machines because linguistic differences and extra-linguistic differences change acoustic features commonly. Therefore, the performance of automatic pronunciation assessment is inevitably affe...

This study focuses on reportative evidential that contains statements of a specific and commonly known individual with interlocutors regarding the quality evidence s/he claimed to have, his/her trustworthiness as person, linguistic markers, turn designs, emotional state, epistemic authority, factors which determine reliability information vouched through reported speech. We collected 28 convers...

Service adoption analysis is a useful instrument for reducing the risk of new service development and launch. The purpose of this study is to develop a 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach for assessing the intention level of service adoption. In doing so, a theoretical framework for service adoption analysis is proposed. Under this framework, a 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach is then proposed f...

In this paper we present a general purpose grammar for the deep linguistic processing of Portuguese that delivers high precision grammatical analysis and detailed meaning representations. We present the main design features and evaluation results concerning the grammar’s coverage as well as its ability to produce correct grammatical analyses.

This paper, the 5 in a series of biennial progress reports, reviews the activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium with particular emphasis on general trends in the language resource landscape and on changes that distinguish the two years since LDC’s last report at LREC from the preceding 8 years. After providing a perspective on the current landscape of language resources, the paper goes on ...