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Computation of infix probabilities for probabilistic context-free grammars [PDF]
The notion of infix probability has been introduced in the literature as a generalization of the notion of prefix (or initial substring) probability, motivated by applications in speech recognition and word error correction.
Satta, Giorgio, Nederhof, Mark Jan
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Endurant vs perdurant : ontological motivation for language variations [PDF]
30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Oct.
Huang, CR
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Predicting Variation of Folk Songs: A Corpus Analysis Study on the Memorability of Melodies
We present a hypothesis-driven study on the variation of melody phrases in a collection of Dutch folk songs. We investigate the variation of phrases within the folk songs through a pattern matching method which detects occurrences of these phrases within
Berit Janssen +3 more
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Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because
We show that a single operation can account for three seemingly distinct properties of the semantics of cause and because. The properties are, firstly, their comparative nature: interpreting cause and because involves comparing what would happen in the ...
Dean Michael McHugh
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Language change in Chinese political discourse based on the relationship between sentence and clause [PDF]
The 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 5–7 November, 2021, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China202307 bcwwVersion of RecordSelf-fundedPublishedCopyright retained by ...
Ahrens, K, Du, X, Huang, CR, Hou, R
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Does telling white lies signal pro-social preferences?
The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling the truth always and the other pushing towards helping others.
Laura Biziou-van-Pol +4 more
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We present a memory-based model for context- dependent semantic parsing. Previous approaches focus on enabling the decoder to copy or modify the parse from the previous utterance, assuming there is a dependency between the current and previous parses. In
Parag Jain, Mirella Lapata
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Data-to-text Generation with Macro Planning
Recent approaches to data-to-text generation have adopted the very successful encoder-decoder architecture or variants thereof. These models generate text that is fluent (but often imprecise) and perform quite poorly at selecting appropriate content and ...
Ratish Puduppully, Mirella Lapata
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A study on the Korean and Chinese pronunciation of Chinese Characters and learning Korean as a second language [PDF]
The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32), Dec 1-3, 2018, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR202208 bcchVersion of RecordSelf-fundedPublishedCopyright retained by ...
Luo, X, Yang, Y, Sun, J
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A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension
When we comprehend language from speech, the phase of the neural response aligns with particular features of the speech input, resulting in a phenomenon referred to as neural tracking.
Filiz Tezcan +2 more
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