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What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website comparing multiple headline variant ...

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Explainable Phonology-based Approach for Sign Language Recognition and Assessment

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Sign language technology, unlike spoken language technology, is an emerging area of research. Sign language technologies can help in bridging the gap between the Deaf community and the hearing community. One such computer-aided technology is sign language ...

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Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

We address the problem of automatically predicting group performance on a task, using multimodal features derived from the group conversation. These include acoustic features extracted from the speech signal, and linguistic features derived from the conver ...

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Intonation Modelling for Speech Synthesis and Emphasis Preservation

Pierre-Edouard Jean Charles Honnet

Speech-to-speech translation is a framework which recognises speech in an input language, translates it to a target language and synthesises speech in this target language. In such a system, variations in the speech signal which are inherent to natural hum ...

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The creativity trap : semantic and pragmatic study of creative capitalism

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The urban order has fashioned a new grammar. In literal terms, the theories of the creative class, creative economy and creative city function as a unit that is both descriptive and prescriptive; they have the advantage of taking into account the utility o ...

Revues Org2017

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

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This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the ot ...

2017

On Structured Sparsity of Phonological Posteriors for Linguistic Parsing

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei

The speech signal conveys information on different time scales from short (20--40 ms) time scale or segmental, associated to phonological and phonetic information to long (150--250 ms) time scale or supra segmental, associated to syllabic and prosodic info ...

2016

Sparse Modeling of Neural Network Posterior Probabilities for Exemplar-based Speech Recognition

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Pranay Dighe

In this paper, a compressive sensing (CS) perspective to exemplar-based speech processing is proposed. Relying on an analytical relationship between CS formulation and statistical speech recognition (Hidden Markov Models HMM), the automatic speech recognit ...

2016

Excluded Linguistic Communities and the Production of an Inclusive Multilingual Digital Language Infrastructure

Martin Benjamin

The consequence of linguistic digital exclusion is the inability of billions of people to access vital knowledge and economic resources that contribute to prosperity in an era of globalization. However, rectifying linguistic inequity is mostly absent from ...

2015

Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken conversations has been recognized as more difficult than text-based document r ...

EPFL2009

Fuzzy Trust Aggregation And Personalized Trust Inference In Virtual Social Networks

Virtual marketplaces on the Web provide people with great facilities to buy and sell goods similar to conventional markets. In traditional business, reputation is subjectively built for known persons and companies as the deals are made in the course of tim ...

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Automatic nonverbal analysis of social interaction in small groups: A review

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An increasing awareness of the scientific and technological value of the automatic understanding of faceto- face social interaction has motivated in the past few years a surge of interest in the devising of computational techniques for conversational analy ...

2009

Cognitive language engineering towards robust human-computer interaction

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Intelligent information processing seems to be one of the most challenging task among those involved in human-computer interaction. A central issue is how to model the various types of interaction among artificial and natural entities at different levels o ...

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