Vers une théorie cognitive de la langue basée sur les contraintes

International audienceCet article fournit des éléments d'explication pour la description des relations entre les différents domaines de l'analyse linguistique. Il propose une architecture générale en vue d'une théorie formée de plusieurs niveaux : d'un côté les grammaires de chacun des domaines et de l'autre des relations spécifiant les interactions entre ces domaines. Dans cette approche, chacun des domaines est porteur d'une partie de l'information, celle-ci résultant également de l'interaction entre les domaines

Vers une théorie cognitive de la langue basée sur les contraintes

International audienceCet article fournit des éléments d'explication pour la description des relations entre les différents domaines de l'analyse linguistique. Il propose une architecture générale en vue d'une théorie formée de plusieurs niveaux : d'un côté les grammaires de chacun des domaines et de l'autre des relations spécifiant les interactions entre ces domaines. Dans cette approche, chacun des domaines est porteur d'une partie de l'information, celle-ci résultant également de l'interaction entre les domaines

Recognising realistic emotions and affect in speech: State of the art and lessons learnt from the first challenge

More than a decade has passed since research on automatic recognition of emotion from speech has become a new field of research in line with its 'big brothers' speech and speaker recognition. This article attempts to provide a short overview on where we are today, how we got there and what this can reveal us on where to go next and how we could arrive there. In a first part, we address the basic phenomenon reflecting the last fifteen years, commenting on databases, modelling and annotation, the unit of analysis and prototypicality. We then shift to automatic processing including discussions on features, classification, robustness, evaluation, and implementation and system integration. From there we go to the first comparative challenge on emotion recognition from speech-the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge, organised by (part of) the authors, including the description of the Challenge's database, Sub-Challenges, participants and their approaches, the winners, and the fusion of results to the actual learnt lessons before we finally address the ever-lasting problems and future promising attempts. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Schuller B., Batliner A., Steidl S., Seppi D., ''Recognising realistic emotions and affect in speech: state of the art and lessons learnt from the first challenge'', Speech communication, vol. 53, no. 9-10, pp. 1062-1087, November 2011.status: publishe

Speech Recognition

Chapters in the first part of the book cover all the essential speech processing techniques for building robust, automatic speech recognition systems: the representation for speech signals and the methods for speech-features extraction, acoustic and language modeling, efficient algorithms for searching the hypothesis space, and multimodal approaches to speech recognition. The last part of the book is devoted to other speech processing applications that can use the information from automatic speech recognition for speaker identification and tracking, for prosody modeling in emotion-detection systems and in other speech processing applications that are able to operate in real-world environments, like mobile communication services and smart homes