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This research paper describes the application of linguistic analysis through scaled co-occurrence networks to create visual representations of systematic literature reviews. This approach uses currently available and free tools in this new application. Co-occurrence networks are a method for visualizing relationships between concepts within written material. The results of a co-occurrence analysis...
A central promise of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is to provide all members of a development team with the right tools to manage all information about their product throughout its life-cycle. The key to deliver this promise is a pragmatic methodology without introducing new overheads, steep learning curves or the need to buy expensive software. The Model-Driven Development Approach (MDDP)...
Concept maps are resources for the representation and construction of knowledge. They allow the showing, through concepts and relationships, how knowledge about a subject is organized. Technological advances have boosted the development of technological approaches that help the automatic construction of a map, in order to facilitate and provide the benefits of that resource more broadly. Because of...
In this contribution we illustrate the methodology and the results of an experiment we conducted by applying Distributional Semantics Models to the analysis of the Holy Quran. Our aim was to gather information on the potential differences in meanings that the same words might take on when used in Modern Standard Arabic w.r.t. their usage in the Quran. To do so we used the Penn Arabic Treebank as a...
Speech discourse comprehension is crucial for developing intelligent speech processing technologies. The present research aims to establish a multi-layered annotation scheme for Chinese discourse that contains inter-related information of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This research provides a theoretical foundation and analytical support for discourse comprehension by examining...
Based on phonetic experiment and statistical analysis, we investigate the effect of information structure on the distribution of stress degree in Chinese reading texts. Different types of information status and stress degree are examined on lexical and referential levels. The lexical information status consists of given, accessible and new information, while the referential information status consists...
This paper presents a deep neural network (DNN)-based unit selection method for waveform concatenation speech synthesis using frame-sized speech segments. In this method, three DNNs are adopted to calculate target costs and concatenation costs respectively for selecting frame-sized candidate units. The first DNN is built in the same way as the DNN-based statistical parametric speech synthesis, which...
This paper conducted an interface research on rhetorical and prosodic aspects of Chinese reading discourses within the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) framework. Ten discourses in 3 genres (Commentary, Narrative, and Descriptive) from the Annotated Speech Corpus of Chinese Discourse (ASCCD) were diagrammed in RST. The recordings from 5 males and 5 females were annotated and further analyzed acoustically...
A research study was conducted at the Abui tribe in Takpala, a village off Alor, Indonesia in 2015. Working together with linguists from NTU, observations were made on how the Abui people created textiles using traditional weaving techniques and tools. Oral interviews held with them have provided insights on how textiles are connected to their everyday life and language. Deeper conversational exchanges...
Exponential growth of the number of rules of a multi-dimensional Fuzzy Inference System with growing number of input parameters makes it impractical for humans to populate the description of such a system via the Fuzzy Control Language by hand. In this paper we present a methodology for automatically generating rules. The generation process is influenced by a given weighting of the input parameters...
A historically important tradition in exegesis, rooted in a number of scriptural passages, considers the Qur'an to be a self-similar text. This claim, while being sharply debated in literature, has never been independently tested. This paper proposes a strategy to measure self-similarity in classical Arabic texts, based on Leven-shtein distance, within the Self-Similar Qur'an (SSQ) project. The significance...
This paper presents a novel version of ExATO, a term extractor originally designed to extract relevant terms from corpora in Portuguese. In this new version not only corpora in Portuguese can be handled, but also texts in English are accepted. This extension is likely to offer the same quality pattern already achieved for Portuguese. In this paper, we draw the analysis of results in parallel corpora...
The present paper identifies differences in the expression features of compassion, sympathy and empathy in British English and Polish that need to be tuned accordingly in socially interactive robots to enable them to operate successfully in these cultures. The results showed that English compassion is characterised by more positive valence and more of a desire to act than Polish współczucie. Polish...
In the context of games for learning, it is argued that taking individual differences among players into consideration during game design can be beneficial for the game and/or learning experience. Researchers have studied a variety of factors that can be used for taking individual differences among players into consideration. Although research work indicates that the intelligence levels according...
In recognition of an existing Cartesian perspective in practice and research of product and service as two distinct entities in product-centric MNEs, an integral perspective of the product-service innovation processes is introduced in the form of the Götheborg IV (G4) model. Based on the assumption that the core activity of any enterprise is exchange, where the value of production is realized in its...
In our current information society, the development of information competency is one of the basic objectives to be developed in primary [1], secondary [2] and even higher education, as pointed out by both the Horizon Report [3], [4], [5] and UNESCO [6], [7]. At the tertiary stage of education, it has been observed that in both Chile and Spain students in many cases have not developed the basic skills...
We propose several new concepts for providing enhanced explanations of classifier decisions in linguistic (human readable) form. These are intended to help operators to better understand the decision process and support them during sample annotation to improve their certainty and consistency in successive labeling cycles. This is expected to lead to better, more consistent data sets (streams) for...
This paper presents an early model of two-layer object perception for the process of artificial semiosis. Following from essential research on cognitive science, semiotics and process of semiosis an approach to capture the process of developing lexicon in a distributed multi-agent system is presented. It should be stressed that the presented research is still in its preliminary state and the presented...
The great part of fuzzy-linguistic research assumes the fuzzy complement as a good candidate for representing the meaning of negation. However, linguistic studies show that both acquisition and use of negation are way more complex than that. After reconsidering a way in which the negation is used in the natural language discourse, this paper focuses on reflecting a use of negation in domains in which...
The goal of the study is to predict acoustic features of expressive speech from semantic vector space representations. Though a lot of successful work was invested in expressiveness analysis and prediction, the results often involve manual labeling, or indirect prediction evaluation such as speech synthesis. The proposed analysis aims at direct acoustic feature prediction and comparison to original...
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