We present a new method for detecting and disambiguating named entities in open domain text. A disambiguation SVM kernel is trained to exploit the high coverage and rich structure...
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...
Language resources and tools to create and process these resources are necessary components in human language technology and natural language applications. In this paper, we descr...
Passage retrieval consists in identifying short but informative runs of a long text, given a specific user query. We discuss the sources of evidence that help choosing likely high-...
High-level spoken document analysis is required in many applications seeking access to the semantic content of audio data, such as information retrieval, machine translation or au...
Julien Fayolle, Fabienne Moreau, Christian Raymond...