An automatic algorithm has been used to annotate the entire corpus using Part-of-Speech POS tags and to lemmatize the corresponding lexicon entries through a semi-automatic stochastic clustering method. Off-line corpus processing tools assist lexicographers to define the headwords of the Dictionary, while the compilation process is performed with the aid of on-line corpus processing tools.
We briefly describe the initial conditions and resources of this development based on the wide experience of main European universities and institutes working in this significant problem area and then we bring out some concluding remarks to the program implementation of a successfully developed generic dialog manager of the multilingual information retrieval dialog system. The conversational approach based on speech synthesis and recognition inspires new ideas and viewpoints for the programming language that is based on the natural tree structure of the program rather than on the usual linear structure.
The language also substantially suppresses syntactical errors and fully integrates facilities for editing and debugging of the program. Speech Synthesis Based on the Composed Syllable Segments Ivan Kopecek Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Abstract: The idea of the composed syllable segments for syllable based concatenative speech synthesis is described in the paper. The use of the composed syllable segments essentially reduces the number of elementary segments that have to be extracted from samples to create the speech segment database.
The experiments show that the quality of the synthesized speech that is obtained by using composed syllable segments is very good even in comparison to the speech synthesis that uses the full syllable segment database. Prosodic segments structure of the implementation is also briefly mentioned in the paper. The advantages of this architecture are discussed, also in the connection with the tree structure of the hypertext document.
In this paper the first results of this enterprise are presented. Though the evaluation of the obtained data is still preliminary it is not difficult to see that they can be very useful in several directions, especially in the area of the lexicographical explorations of Czech.
