Word segmentation is the first and obligatory task for every NLP. For inflectional languages like English, French, Dutch,.. their word boundaries are simply assumed to be whitespa...
In the 1980s, plot units were proposed as a conceptual knowledge structure for representing and summarizing narrative stories. Our research explores whether current NLP technology...
Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
We present a divide-and-conquer strategy based on finite state technology for shallow parsing of realworld German texts. In a first phase only the topological structure of a sente...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...