: Competence development programmes are collections of units of learning and learning activities used to increase the overall effective performance of a learner within a certain ta...
We present the new notion of enforced generative pattern, a structure that declares positive or negative conditions that must be satisfied by a model. Patterns are applied to tran...
This paper describes a source modeling method for hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech synthesis for improved naturalness. A speech corpus is rst decomposed into the glottal sou...
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Hannu Pulakka, Martti Va...
It is well known that trivariate reduction — a method to generate two dependent random variables from three independent random variables — can be used to generate Poisson rand...
Abstract. In Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, a generalpurpose surface realisation module will usually require the underlying application to provide highly detailed input...
Eder Miranda de Novais, Thiago Dias Tadeu, Ivandr&...