We present Quantized Contour Modeling (QCM), a Bayesian approach to the classification of acoustic contours. We evaluate the performance of this technique in the classification of...
As human beings, our mental processes for recognising linguistic symbols generate perceptual neighbourhoods around such symbols where confusion errors occur. Such neighbourhoods a...
Automatic processing of metaphor can be clearly divided into two subtasks: metaphor recognition (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in a text) and metaphor i...
We show that unsupervised part of speech tagging performance can be significantly improved using likely substitutes for target words given by a statistical language model. We choo...
A characterization of the expressive power of synchronous tree-adjoining grammars (STAGs) in terms of tree transducers (or equivalently, synchronous tree substitution grammars) is...