The development of a captioning system that supports the real-time understanding of monologue speech such as lectures and commentaries is required. In monologues, since a sentence tends to be long, each sentence is often displayed in multi lines on the screen and becomes unreadable. In the case, it is necessary to insert linefeeds into a text so that the text becomes easy to read. This paper pr...

We describe the construction of the CODA corpus, a parallel corpus of monologues and expository dialogues. The dialogue part of the corpus consists of expository, i.e., information-delivering rather than dramatic, dialogues written by several acclaimed authors. The monologue part of the corpus is a paraphrase in monologue form of these dialogues by a human annotator. The corpus was constructed ...

The various approaches prevalent in argumentation theory take as their fundamental unit of analysis the concept of ‘an argument’. It is generally assumed that any unit of argument is inherently dialectical: Eemeren and Grootendorst (1992), for example, use the notion of an “implicit discussion”. It has recently been recognised, however, that there may be important differences between arguments ...

UNLABELLED The present study investigated the immediate effects of eight altered auditory feedback (AAF) parameters on stuttering frequency during monologue speech production on two occasions. One of the modern commercially available portable anti-stuttering devices, "The Pocket Speech Lab" (Casa Futura Technologies) was used in the study to produce the auditory feedback alterations. Six types ...

The life-sustaining technology of maintenance hemodialysis attempts to accomplish in a dozen or so hours a week what the kidneys labor to do 24 hours per day: maintain the optimal composition and volume of body fluids. Claude Bernard’s insight in the 1800s about the milieu intérieur (“all of the vital mechanisms, however varied they may be, have always one goal, to maintain the uniformity of th...

We present preliminary research on the relation between written manuals and instructional dialogue, and outline how a manual can be converted into a format which can be used as domain knowledge by a dialogue system, capable of generating both instructional dialogue and monologue. Starting from a short sample text from a manual, we use the TRINDI information state approach (Traum et al., 1999) t...