Preplanning or look ahead is one of the basic principles of the current model of Danish intonation. The frequency range spanned by a prosodic phrase is constant regardless of phrase length, ceteris paribus, and the frequency step size between one stressed syllable and the next varies inversely with the number of stressed syllables in the phrase. This empirically well-founded fact is based on re...

In the ongoing CODA project, we are developing a system for automatically converting monologue into dialogue. The dialogue is generated in a two-step approach. Firstly, snippets of input monologue are mapped to dialogue act sequences. Secondly, these sequences are verbalized. The conversion relies partly on analysing input monologue in terms of its discourse relations. This short paper briefly ...

In the ongoing CODA project, we are developing a system for automatically converting monologue into dialogue. The dialogue is generated in a two-step approach. Firstly, snippets of input monologue are mapped to dialogue act sequences. Secondly, these sequences are verbalized. The conversion relies partly on analysing input monologue in terms of its discourse relations. This short paper briefly ...

This study investigates idiosyncrasy manifested in language use in spoken Japanese. For this purpose, we use speaker classification techniques as analytical tools. More precisely, focusing on Japanese case particles and fillers, of which the linguistic functions differ significantly, we aim to investigate 1) the extent of speaker idiosyncrasy in the selection of certain case particles/fillers o...

We have developed a highly accurate automatic language identification system based on large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). Each test utterance is recognized in a number of languages, and the language ID decision is based on the probability of the output word sequence reported by each recognizer. Recognizers were implemented for this test in English, Japanese, and Spanish, usi...

One of the first steps towards understanding natural multimodal language is aligning gesture and speech, so that the appropriate gestures ground referential pronouns in the speech. This paper presents a novel technique for gesture-speech alignment, inspired by saliencebased approaches to anaphoric pronoun resolution. We use a hybrid between data-driven and knowledge-based mtehods: the basic str...

The paper investigates the relationships between personality traits and expert manual annotation of unscripted speech. The analysis is based on the results of a psycholinguistic experiment in which the participants were asked to annotate sentence boundaries in transcriptions of Russian spoken monologues. Personality traits were measured using the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Five Facto...

Generating expository dialogue from monologue is a task that poses an interesting and rewarding challenge for Natural Language Processing. This short paper has three aims: firstly, to motivate the importance of this task, both in terms of the benefits of expository dialogue as a way to present information and in terms of potential applications; secondly, to introduce a parallel corpus of monolo...

The aim of this paper is two folds. First, the paper attempts to investigate prosody and discourse structure in Japanese spontaneous monologues by using the prosodic labels of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). The analyses of F0 peak trends and prosodic breaks confirmed previous findings in [1]. Secondly, the paper attempts to evaluate the validity of prosodic labels of the X-JToBI syst...

In this paper, I will discuss the functional aspects of parenthetical clauses and sentences in spontaneous Japanese monologues. Parentheticals can be defined as syntactic elements that are instantly inserted in the middle of an ongoing utterance to add supplemental information and thus interrupts the fluent flow of speech production. Examples of parenthetical clauses/sentences that appeared in ...