Phrase

About: Phrase is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12580 publications have been published within this topic receiving 317823 citations. The topic is also known as: syntagma & phrases.

Method and system for correcting misrecognized spoken words or phrases

Abstract: A method and system for editing words that have been misrecognized. The system allows a speaker to specify a number of alternative words to be displayed in a correction window by resizing the correction window. The system also displays the words in the correction window in alphabetical order. A preferred system eliminates the possibility, when a misrecognized word is respoken, that the respoken utterance will be again recognized as the same misrecognized word. This elimination occurs based on the probabilities of alternative words associated with both the misrecognized utterance and the respoken utterance. The system, when operating with a word processor, allows the speaker to specify the amount of speech that is buffered before transferring to the word processor. The system also uses a word correction metaphor or a phrase correction metaphor.

Lexically independent priming in online sentence comprehension.

Abstract: Two eye-tracking experiments investigated what happens when people read pairs of sentences that have the same syntactic structure. Previous experiments have shown priming in online sentence processing only when critical lexical material overlaps between the prime and the target sentence. In the current study, participants were asked to read sentences containing modifier-goal ambiguities. Half of the target sentences were preceded by sentences with the same structure, and half were preceded by sentences with a different structure. In Experiment 1, the prime-target pairs had the same main verb. In Experiment 2, the prime-target pairs had different main verbs. Facilitated target sentence processing was observed in both Experiments 1 and 2 when the target sentences were preceded by a prime sentence with the same syntactic structure. These results provide the first evidence of lexically independent, between-sentence structural priming in online sentence comprehension.

Narrative and Procedural Discourse in Aphasia

Abstract: Current interest in discourse performance has been motivated by the explanatory power provided by recent developments in discourse grammar. Discourse, unlike sentences, does not have a strict set of rules that specify grammaticality. Nor does discourse have a specified length. Although discourse is often described as a series of connected sentences, it may be a single word, a phrase, a sentence, or an infinite combination of all these forms. The length is specified in terms of communicative function (i.e., discourse is a unit of language that conveys a message). Discourse grammar provides a linguistic description of the properties that contribute to acceptability or well-formedness of discourse. There are several discourse types (e.g., narrative, procedural, expository, and conversational) that differ in structure and information content.

Search engine for phrase recognition based on prefix/body/suffix architecture

Abstract: A method of constructing a language model for a phrase-based search in a speech recognition system and an apparatus for constructing and/or searching through the language model. The method includes the step of separating a plurality of phrases into a plurality of words in a prefix word, body word, and suffix word structure. Each of the phrases has a body word and optionally a prefix word and a suffix word. The words are grouped into a plurality of prefix word classes, a plurality of body word classes, and a plurality of suffix word classes in accordance with a set of predetermined linguistic rules. Each of the respective prefix, body, and suffix word classes includes a number of prefix words of same category, a number of body words of same category, and a number of suffix words of same category, respectively. The prefix, body, and suffix word classes are then interconnected together according to the predetermined linguistic rules. A method of organizing a phrase search based on the above-described prefix/body/suffix language model is also described. The words in each of the prefix, body, and suffix classes are organized into a lexical tree structure. A phrase start lexical tree structure is then created for the words of all the prefix classes and the body classes having a word which can start one of the plurality of phrases while still maintaining connections of these prefix and body classes within the language model.