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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.
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26 Jul 2004TL;DR: In this article, a method of personalizing a search of a document collection to a user comprises monitoring documents accessed by a user, identifying first phrases present in one or more of the accessed documents, identifying corresponding first related phrases related to the corresponding identified first phrase, selecting search results comprising documents responsive to the query, identifying by operation of a processor configured to manipulate data within a computer system, one OR more second phrases related with the query and that are present in a user model.
Abstract: A method of personalizing a search of a document collection to a user comprises monitoring documents accessed by a user, identifying first phrases present in one or more of the accessed documents, identifying one or more corresponding first related phrases related to the corresponding identified first phrase, receiving a query including one or more second phrases from the user, selecting search results comprising documents responsive to the query, identifying by operation of a processor configured to manipulate data within a computer system, one or more second phrases related to one or more second phrases of the query and that are present in a user model, weighting scores of corresponding search results according to the identified one or more second related phrases, ranking the search results according to their weighted scores to provide personalized search results and presenting them to the user.
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TL;DR: An eye-tracking study explored Korean-speaking adults' and 4- and 5-year-olds' ability to recover from misinterpretations of temporarily ambiguous phrases during spoken language comprehension, finding that children, but not adults, had difficulty in recovering from these misinterpretations despite strong disambiguating evidence at the end of the sentence.
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TL;DR: A statistical model of an embedded hierarchy of prosodic phrase structure of factors such as syntactic branching and prosodic constituent length using a binary tree classification is described, allowing automatic training of different speaking styles.
Abstract: Prosodic phrase structure provides important information for the understanding and naturalness of synthetic speech, and a good model of prosodic phrases has applications in both speech synthesis and speech understanding. This work describes a statistical model of an embedded hierarchy of prosodic phrase structure, motivated by results in linguistic theory. Each level of the hierarchy is modeled as a sequence of subunits at the next level, with the lowest level of the hierarchy representing factors such as syntactic branching and prosodic constituent length using a binary tree classification. A maximum likelihood solution for parameter estimation is presented, allowing automatic training of different speaking styles. For predicting prosodic phrase breaks from text, a dynamic programming algorithm is given for finding the maximum probability prosodic parse. Experimental results on a corpus of radio news demonstrate a high rate of success for predicting major and minor phrase boundaries from text without syntactic information (81% correct prediction with 4% false prediction).
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12 Aug 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a speech-to-speech translation system was proposed, which allows one or more users to input a spoken utterance in one language, translate the utterance into one or multiple second languages, and output the translation in speech form.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a speech-to-speech translation device which allows one or more users to input a spoken utterance in one language, translates the utterance into one or more second languages, and outputs the translation in speech form. Additionally, the device allows for translation both directions, recognizing inputs in the one or more second languages and translating them back into the first language. The device recognizes and translates utterances in a limited domain as in a phrase book translation system, so the translation accuracy is essentially 100%. By limiting the domain the system increases the accuracy of the speech recognition component and thus the accuracy of the overall system. However unlike other phrase book systems, the device also allows wide variations and paraphrasing in the input, so that the user is much more likely to find the desired phrase from the stored list of phrases. The device paraphrases the input to a basic canonical form and performs the translation on that canonical form, ignoring the non-essential variations in the surface form of the input. The device can provide visual and/or auditory feedback to confirm the recognized input and makes the system usable for non-bilingual users with absolute confidence.
123 citations
TL;DR: A quartile analysis showed that for both types of violations, larger average violation effects were associated with lower relative amplitudes of oscillatory activity, implying an inverse relation between ERP amplitude and event-related power magnitude change in sentence processing.
123 citations