This paper proposes a method to improve the quality delivered by statistical parametric speech synthesizers. For this, we use a codebook of pitch-synchronous residual frames, so a...
Thomas Drugman, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Dutoit, Geo...
We describe a mechanism for the generation of lexical paraphrases of queries posed to an Internet resource. These paraphrases are generated using WordNet and part-of-speech inform...
This paper investigates unsupervised vocabulary and language model self-adaptation (VLA) from just one speech file using the web as a knowledge source and without prior knowledge...
The tagging problem in natural language processing is to find a way to label every word in a text as a particular part of speech, e.g., proper noun. An effective way of solving th...
— Information extraction systems are traditionally implemented as a pipeline of special-purpose processing modules. A major drawback of such an approach is that whenever a new ex...