Sökning: "prominence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 83 avhandlingar innehållade ordet prominence.
1. Probabilistic and Prominence-driven Incremental Argument Interpretation in Swedish
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates how grammatical functions in transitive sentences (i.e., `subject' and `direct object') are distributed in written Swedish discourse with respect to morphosyntactic as well as semantic and referential (i.e. LÄS MER
2. Towards a discourse-based model of English sentence intonation
Sammanfattning : English non-expressive, declarative sentence intonation is examined in a discourse context. A rule system, geared to a text-to-speech context is developed which assigns sentence prominences related to information focus. LÄS MER
3. Geometric Models of Similarity
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines and discusses some phenomena related to the geometric representation of similarity. It takes its inspiration from the existing body of empirical research within the fields of perceptual and cognitive psychology, but also connects to certain areas of machine learning. LÄS MER
4. Bringing the avatar to life : Studies and developments in facial communication for virtual agents and robots
Sammanfattning : The work presented in this thesis comes in pursuit of the ultimate goal of building spoken and embodied human-like interfaces that are able to interact with humans under human terms. Such interfaces need to employ the subtle, rich and multidimensional signals of communicative and social value that complement the stream of words – signals humans typically use when interacting with each other. LÄS MER
5. Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish
Sammanfattning : One of the most important functions of prosody is to divide the flow of speech into chunks. The chunking, or prosodic phrasing, of speech plays an important role in both the production and perception of speech. LÄS MER