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.

Methods for creating a phrase thesaurus

Abstract: The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). More specifically, the invention concerns a phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction and use of these models for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks.

System and method for synchronizing enhancing content with a video program using closed captioning

Abstract: A system and method uses the closed captioning script to synchronize supplemental data with specified junctures in a video program. A parser parses the closed captioning script to identify a set of unique phrases, with each phrase having the same number of words. A program producer decides what points in the video program to introduce enhancing content. The producer associates supplemental data used to activate the enhancing content with specific key phrases of the closed captioning script that correspond to the desired points in the program. The parser creates a key phrase data file which contains a listing of the key phrases and their association to the supplemental data. The key phrase data file is delivered to viewer computing units at user's homes. When the program is played, the viewer computing unit monitors the closed captioning script to detect the key phrases listed in the key phrase data file.

Method for document comparison and selection

Abstract: Extensions to latent semantic indexing (LSI), including: phrase processing, creation of generalized entities, elaboration of entities, replacement of idiomatic expressions, and use of data fusion methods to combine the aforementioned extensions in a synergistic fashion. Additionally, novel methods tailored to specific applications of LSI are disclosed.

The neural oscillations of speech processing and language comprehension: State of the art and emerging mechanisms

Abstract: Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains-somewhat-repetitive trains of air pressure bursts that occur at three dominant amplitude modulation frequencies, physically marking the linguistically meaningful progressions of phonemes, syllables and intonational phrase boundaries. To these acoustic events, neural oscillations of isomorphous operating frequencies are thought to synchronise, presumably resulting in an implicit temporal alignment of periods of neural excitability to linguistically meaningful spectral information on the three low-level linguistic description levels. On the other hand, speech is a carrier signal that codes for high-level linguistic meaning, such as syntactic structure and semantic information-which cannot be read from stimulus acoustics, but must be acquired during language acquisition and decoded for language comprehension. Neural oscillations subserve the processing of both syntactic structure and semantic information. Here, I synthesise a mapping from each linguistic processing domain to a unique set of subserving oscillatory mechanisms-the mapping is plausible given the role ascribed to different oscillatory mechanisms in different subfunctions of cortical information processing and faithful to the underlying electrophysiology. In sum, the present article provides an accessible and extensive review of the functional mechanisms that neural oscillations subserve in speech processing and language comprehension.

Word familiarity predicts temporal asynchrony of hand gestures and speech.

Abstract: Seventeen Ss were videotaped as they provided narrative descriptions of 13 photographs. Judgments from 129 naive untrained Ss were used to isolate 60 speech-related gestures and their lexical affiliates (i.e., the accompanying word or phrase judged as related in meaning) from these 221 narratives. A computer-video interface measured each gesture, and a 3rd group of Ss rated word familiarity of each lexical affiliate