This paper provides a comprehensive Optimality Theoretic formalization of a Finnish language game... more This paper provides a comprehensive Optimality Theoretic formalization of a Finnish language game. In opposition to earlier rule-based studies, the present analysis motivates the sometimes arbitrary-looking patterns of the game and brings together various phenomena under a unified set of universal constraints. The paper also demonstrates the close relationship between language games and natural languages by showing how the patterns of the game are analysable with the help of constraints of ordinary languages, or constraints that deviate only minimally from the original ones. The analysis of the game offers valuable external evidence for the phonology of Finnish with respect to the internal structure of long segments, vowel harmony, syllable markedness and the integrity of diphthongs.
The paper describes developments and results of the work being carried out during the European re... more The paper describes developments and results of the work being carried out during the European research project CATCH-2004 (Converse in AThens Cologne and Helsinki)3. The objective of the project is multi-modal, multi-lingual conversational access to information systems. This paper concentrates on issues of the multilingual telephony-based speech and natural language understanding components.
... Marion Mast , Thomas Ross , Henrik Schulz , Heli Harrikari , Vasiliki Demesticha , LazarosPol... more ... Marion Mast , Thomas Ross , Henrik Schulz , Heli Harrikari , Vasiliki Demesticha , LazarosPolymenakos , Yannis Vamvakoulas , Jan Stadermann, Conversational natural language understanding interfacing city event information, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.42 n.3, p. ...
The article describes aspects of the development of a conversational natural language understandi... more The article describes aspects of the development of a conversational natural language understanding (NLU) system done during the first year of the European research project CATCH-2004 (Converse in AThens Cologne and Helsinki) [http://www.catch2004.org]. The project is co-funded by the European Union in the scope of the IST programme (IST 1999-11103).Its objectives focus on multi-modal, multi-lingual conversational natural language access to
This paper provides a comprehensive Optimality Theoretic formalization of a Finnish language game... more This paper provides a comprehensive Optimality Theoretic formalization of a Finnish language game. In opposition to earlier rule-based studies, the present analysis motivates the sometimes arbitrary-looking patterns of the game and brings together various phenomena under a unified set of universal constraints. The paper also demonstrates the close relationship between language games and natural languages by showing how the patterns of the game are analysable with the help of constraints of ordinary languages, or constraints that deviate only minimally from the original ones. The analysis of the game offers valuable external evidence for the phonology of Finnish with respect to the internal structure of long segments, vowel harmony, syllable markedness and the integrity of diphthongs.
The paper describes developments and results of the work being carried out during the European re... more The paper describes developments and results of the work being carried out during the European research project CATCH-2004 (Converse in AThens Cologne and Helsinki)3. The objective of the project is multi-modal, multi-lingual conversational access to information systems. This paper concentrates on issues of the multilingual telephony-based speech and natural language understanding components.
... Marion Mast , Thomas Ross , Henrik Schulz , Heli Harrikari , Vasiliki Demesticha , LazarosPol... more ... Marion Mast , Thomas Ross , Henrik Schulz , Heli Harrikari , Vasiliki Demesticha , LazarosPolymenakos , Yannis Vamvakoulas , Jan Stadermann, Conversational natural language understanding interfacing city event information, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.42 n.3, p. ...
The article describes aspects of the development of a conversational natural language understandi... more The article describes aspects of the development of a conversational natural language understanding (NLU) system done during the first year of the European research project CATCH-2004 (Converse in AThens Cologne and Helsinki) [http://www.catch2004.org]. The project is co-funded by the European Union in the scope of the IST programme (IST 1999-11103).Its objectives focus on multi-modal, multi-lingual conversational natural language access to
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