L2 learners often produce “ungrammatical” word combinations such as, e.g., *give a suggestion or *make a walk. This is because of the “collocationality” of one of their items (the base) that limits the acceptance of ...

Mainstream research on hate speech focused so far predominantly on the task of classifying mainly social media posts with respect to predefined typologies of rather coarse-grained hate speech categories. This may be ...

This dissertation presents an empirical study on the information structure– prosody interface based on: (i) a formal description of hierarchical thematicity within a systematic language model for natural language generation ...

The speech of native speakers is full of idiosyncrasies. Especially prominent are lexically restricted binary word co-occurrences of the type high esteem, strong tea, run [an] experiment, war break(s) out, etc. In lexicography, ...

Structuring speech into informative units is certainly a desirable feature in efficient human-machine communication. This paper introduces ThemePro 2.0, a toolkit that pre-processes long monologues into smaller cohesive ...

We present work in progress on an intelligent embodied conversation agent in the basic care and healthcare domain. In contrast to most of the existing agents, the presented agent is aimed to have linguistic cultural, social ...

This thesis addresses the potential that the relation between terms and images in multilingual specialized documentation has for glossary compilation, terminology alignment, and image indexing. It takes advantage of the ...

This paper deals with the adaptation of AuToBI annotation for speech synthesis purposes. AuToBI is a tool that automatically determines and classifies the standard ToBI labels for American English. AuToBI annotation is ...

Conversational technologies that assist elderly people need to adapt to common disabilities in old age. Visual, hearing and even more so cognitive impairments pose serious difficulties for our seniors to handle a standard ...

We present work in progress on (verbal, facial, and gestural) modality selection in an embodied multilingual and multicultural conversation agent. In contrast to most of the recent proposals, which consider non-verbal ...