Adapting a speech into sign language translation system to a new domain

This paper presents a methodology for adapting an advanced communication system for deaf people in a new domain. This methodology is a user-centered design approach consisting of four main steps: requirement analysis, parallel corpus generation, technology adaptation to the new domain, and finally, system evaluation. In this paper, the new considered domain has been the dialogues in a hotel reception. With this methodology, it was possible to develop the system in a few months, obtaining very good performance: good speech recognition and translation rates (around 90%) with small processing times.

Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder

Investigation of the three-generation KE family, half of whose members are affected by a pronounced verbal dyspraxia, has led to identification of their core deficit as one involving sequential articulation and orofacial praxis. A positron emission tomography activation study revealed functional abnormalities in both cortical and subcortical motor-related areas of the frontal lobe, while quantitative analyses of magnetic resonance imaging scans revealed structural abnormalities in several of these same areas, particularly the caudate nucleus, which was found to be abnormally small bilaterally. A recent linkage study [Fisher, S., Vargha-Khadem, F., Watkins, K. E., Monaco, A. P. & Pembry, M. E. (1998) Nat. Genet. 18, 168–170] localized the abnormal gene (SPCH1) to a 5.6-centiMorgan interval in the chromosomal band 7q31. The genetic mutation or deletion in this region has resulted in the abnormal development of several brain areas that appear to be critical for both orofacial movements and sequential articulation, leading to marked disruption of speech and expressive language.

Integration of speech with natural language understanding.

The integration of speech recognition with natural language understanding raises issues of how to adapt natural language processing to the characteristics of spoken language; how to cope with errorful recognition output, including the use of natural language information to reduce recognition errors; and how to use information from the speech signal, beyond just the sequence of words, as an aid to understanding. This paper reviews current research addressing these questions in the Spoken Language Program sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). I begin by reviewing some of the ways that spontaneous spoken language differs from standard written language and discuss methods of coping with the difficulties of spontaneous speech. I then look at how systems cope with errors in speech recognition and at attempts to use natural language information to reduce recognition errors. Finally, I discuss how prosodic information in the speech signal might be used to improve understanding.

Report on Workshop on High Performance Computing and Communications for Grand Challenge Applications : computer vision, speech and natural language processing, and artificial intelligence /

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Parts of speech of the English language, in rhythmic illustrations, with copious models & exercises in analysis & composition; designed for beginners.

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Faulty diction as corrected by the Funk & Wagnalls new Standard dictionary of the English language; a brief statement of the general principles determining correctness in English speech and writing, with their application to some of the more common instances of violation and to some of the mooted questions regarding usage.

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A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech, especially in relation to the English language and the art of public speaking /

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The royal universal British grammar and vocabulary. Being a digestion of the entire English language into its proper parts of speech ... In a method entirely new. ...

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Speech and language development program, Milwaukee.

"One of a series of successful compensatory education programs."

Medicare certified rehabilitation programs : outpatient physical therapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility /

A directory of Medicare certified rehabilitation service providers in Illinois.

A dictionary of the Welsh language, explained in English; with numerous illustrations, from the literary remains and from the living speech of the Cymmry. To which is prefixed, the Welsh grammar.

The grammar has also special t.p.: A grammar of the Welsh language. The 2d ed. ... Denbigh, 1832.

The original rhythmical grammar of the English language : or, the art of reading and speaking, on the principles of the music of speech.

"The system on which this grammar is founded is that of Mr. Joshua steel... in his Proeodia rationalis."--Pref., p. xiii.

On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer ; containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England from the Anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types, including a rearrangement of F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521 /

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