Abstract. System architectures are described in abstract terms, often using Design Patterns. Actual reuse based on such descriptions requires that each development project derive a...
The Web is now a huge information repository with a rich semantic structure that, however, is primarily addressed to human understanding rather than automated processing by a compu...
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
The User Services unit of Information Technologies at the University of Delaware operates nine public computing facilities and employs about 150 students who work as assistants in...