Large-scale parsing is still a complex and timeconsuming process, often so much that it is infeasible in real-world applications. The parsing system described here addresses this ...
Recent work in Ontology learning and Text mining has mainly focused on engineering methods to solve practical problem. In this thesis, we investigate methods that can substantially...
In this paper we introduce a system that automatically adds different types of non-verbal behavior to a given dialogue script between two virtual embodied agents. It allows us to ...
Werner Breitfuss, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Spoken language generation for dialogue systems requires a dictionary of mappings between semantic representations of concepts the system wants to express and realizations of thos...
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Rashmi Prasad, Marilyn A. W...
This paper proposes a method of generating F0 contours from natural F0 segmental shapes for speech synthesis. The extracted shapes of F0 units are basically kept unchanged, by eli...