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Non-verbal Communication between Humans and Robots: Imitation, Mutual Understanding and Inferring Object Properties

Humans can express their actions and intentions, resorting to verbal and/or non-verbal communication. In verbal communication, humans use language to express, in structured linguistic terms, the desired action they wish to perform. Non-verbal communication ...

EPFL2023

United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous t ...

Nature Portfolio2023

High gamma response tracks different syntactic structures in homophonous phrases

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

Syntax is a species-specific component of human language combining a finite set of words in a potentially infinite number of sentences. Since words are by definition expressed by sound, factoring out syntactic information is normally impossible. Here, we c ...

Nature Research2020

ODIANLP's Participation in WAT2020

Petr Motlicek

This paper describes the team (“ODI-ANLP”)’s submission to WAT 2020. We have participated in the English→HindiMultimodal task and Indic task. We have used the state-of-the-art Transformer model for the translation task and Incep-tionResNetV2 for the Hindi ...

ACL2020

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019

Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

We address the problem of automatically predicting group performance on a task, using multimodal features derived from the group conversation. These include acoustic features extracted from the speech signal, and linguistic features derived from the conver ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

Frédéric Kaplan, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Vincent Christian Buntinx

This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the ot ...

2017

Analyse multi-échelle de n-grammes sur 200 années d'archives de presse

Vincent Christian Buntinx

The recent availability of large corpora of digitized texts over several centuries opens the way to new forms of studies on the evolution of languages. In this thesis, we study a corpus of 4 million press articles covering a period of 200 years. The thesis ...

EPFL2017

On Modeling the Synergy Between Acoustic and Lexical Information for Pronunciation Lexicon Development

Marzieh Razavi

State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech systems require a pronunciation lexicon that maps each word to a sequence of phones. Manual development of lexicons is costly as it needs linguistic knowledge and human expertise. To fa ...

EPFL2017

On Structured Sparsity of Phonological Posteriors for Linguistic Parsing

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Milos Cernak

The speech signal conveys information on different time scales from short (20--40 ms) time scale or segmental, associated to phonological and phonetic information to long (150--250 ms) time scale or supra segmental, associated to syllabic and prosodic info ...

2016

Excluded Linguistic Communities and the Production of an Inclusive Multilingual Digital Language Infrastructure

Martin Benjamin

The consequence of linguistic digital exclusion is the inability of billions of people to access vital knowledge and economic resources that contribute to prosperity in an era of globalization. However, rectifying linguistic inequity is mostly absent from ...

2015

Grapheme-based Automatic Speech Recognition using Probabilistic Lexical Modeling

Ramya Rasipuram

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems incorporate expert knowledge of language or the linguistic expertise through the use of phone pronunciation lexicon (or dictionary) where each word is associated with a sequence of phones. The creation of phone pr ...

EPFL2014

Stochastic fragments: A framework for the exact reduction of the stochastic semantics of rule-based models

Tatjana Petrov

In this paper, we propose an abstract interpretation-based framework for reducing the state space of stochastic semantics for protein protein interaction networks. Our approach consists in quotienting the state space of networks. Yet interestingly, we do n ...

2013

Current trends in multilingual speech processing

Hervé Bourlard, Mathew Magimai Doss, Petr Motlicek, John David Scott Dines, Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Hui Liang, Fabio Valente, Lakshmi Babu Saheer

In this paper, we describe recent work at Idiap Research Institute in the domain of multilingual speech processing and provide some insights into emerging challenges for the research community. Multilingual speech processing has been a topic of ongoing int ...

2011

Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings

Marita Ailomaa

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken conversations has been recognized as more difficult than text-based document r ...

EPFL2009

Traduction des opérations de l'analyse historique dans le langage conceptuel des systèmes d'information géographique pour une exploration des processus morphologiques de la ville et du territoire

Eduardo Camacho-Hübner

Present work intends to conceive an interface between Urban Morphology and Geographic Information Science (GISc). This interface is considered as a space of exchange for knowledge exploration between several disciplines. The links pointed out from this the ...

EPFL2009

Language Evolution as a Darwinian Process: Computational Studies

Frédéric Kaplan

This paper presents computational experiments that illustrate how one can precisely conceptualize language evolution as a Darwinian process. We show that there is potentially a wide diversity of replicating units and replication mechanisms involved in lang ...

2007