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A Computational Memory and Processing Model for Processing for Prosody
Janet E. Cahn
This paper links prosody to the information in a text and how it is processed by the speaker. It describes the operation and output of LOQ, a text-to-speech implementation that inc…
Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agent Personality
Marilyn A. Walker, Janet E. Cahn, Stephen J. Whittaker
This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with applications to interactive s…
An investigation into the correlation of cue phrases, unfilled pauses and the structuring of spoken discourse
Janet Cahn
Expectations about the correlation of cue phrases, the duration of unfilled pauses and the structuring of spoken discourse are framed in light of Grosz and Sidner's theory of disco…
The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution
Janet Cahn
By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they occur felicitously in spoken…