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The aim of the work to be reported here is the development of schemata which are able to predict the quality of spontaneity and help to create and collect databases for certain tasks on spontaneous speech. The term “spontaneous speech“ is used in a wide range and allows the existence of many spontaneous speech corpora with different levels of spontaneity. Our aim was to find appropriate categor...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the on-line discourse accompanying a year-long professional development experience. Participants in this study were 19 graduate students, 5 teacher-leaders, and 1 university faculty member involved in a Reading Institute taught at an urban university in the Southeast. Primary data sources for the study consisted of over 1300 bulletin board po...

This is a linguistic study on idiosyncrasy manifested through language use in Japanese monologues. For this purpose, we use speaker classification techniques as analytical tools. Focusing on Japanese particles, the subcategories of these particles, and interjections, we aim to find out to what extent Japanese speakers are idiosyncratic in selecting certain words above others in monologues. We a...

This paper discusses and proposes a translation unit for simultaneous translation using a machine translation (MT) system. Monologues, such as lectures or broadcast news, are used as the target of simultaneous speech translation. To date, a lot of research on speech translation has dealt with dialogues, especially travel conversations. Most of the speech translation systems in MT have treated a...

The goal of our research is the development of algorithms for automatic estimation of a person’s verbal intelligence based on the analysis of transcribed spoken utterances. In this paper we present the corpus of German native speakers’ monologues and dialogues about the same topics collected at the University of Ulm, Germany. The monologues were descriptions of two short films; the dialogues we...