Search for dissertations about: "art of speech"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words art of speech.

  2. 11. Inductive Dependency Parsing of Natural Language Text

    Author : Joakim Nivre; Walter Daelemans; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; natural language parsing; dependency parsing; memory-based learning; treebank parsing; Systems engineering; Systemteknik; Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science; Data- och informationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates new methods for syntactic parsing of unrestricted natural language text under requirements of robustness and disambiguation. A parsing system is required to assign to every sentence in a text at least one analysis (robustness) and at most one analysis (disambiguation). READ MORE

  4. 12. Bringing the avatar to life : Studies and developments in facial communication for virtual agents and robots

    Author : Samer Al Moubayed; Jonas Beskow; Stefan Kopp; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Avatar; Speech Communication; Facial animation; Nonverbal; Social; Robot; Human-like; Face-to-face; Prosody; Pitch; Prominence; Furhat; Gaze; Head-pose; Dialogue; Interaction; Multimodal; Multiparty; SRA - ICT; SRA - Informations- och kommunikationsteknik;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  5. 13. On the Metric-based Approach to Supervised Concept Learning

    Author : Niklas Lavesson; Sweden Karlskrona Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Engineering Department of Systems and Software Engineering; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; classifier evaluation; supervised learning; metric; criteria;

    Abstract : A classifier is a piece of software that is able to categorize objects for which the class is unknown. The task of automatically generating classifiers by generalizing from examples is an important problem in many practical applications. This problem is often referred to as supervised concept learning, and has been shown to be relevant in e.g. READ MORE

  6. 14. Participant Reference in Three Balochi Dialects : Male and Female Narrations of Folktales and Biographical Tales

    Author : Maryam Nourzaei; Carina Jahani; Stephen H. Levinsohn; Henrik Liljegren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; Coastal Balochi; Koroshi Balochi; Sistani Balochi; folktales; biographical tales; participant reference; default and marked encoding; orality; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study is to investigate how men and women in three Iranian Balochi dialects, Coastal Balochi, Koroshi Balochi and Sistani Balochi, refer to 3rd person participants in oral narratives of two genres: folktales and biographical tales. The stories that are analysed were recorded during several field trips to Iran and the approach used is that of Levinsohn (1994, 2015). READ MORE

  7. 15. Moral Philosophy and Novel Writing as Aspects of a Single Struggle : Iris Murdoch’s Hybrid Novels

    Author : Anna Victoria Hallberg; Lars-Åke Skalin; Beata Agrell; Anniken Greve; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iris Murdoch; hybrid novel; philosophical novel; morality; viva-voce; epiphany; plot; ;

    Abstract : This investigation pursues a thesis, namely that moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch was a writer of hybrid novels. Murdoch’s novels are hybrid constructions where she tries to make reflections on moral intuitions discernible and experienced within the novels’ own “system”. READ MORE