Friedrich Neubarth

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Research Interests:

• Speech synthesis: generation of pronunciation lexica, modeling of dialectal language varieties, phonetic encoding, prosodic correlates of information structure, segment duration.
• Computational Linguistics: automatic detection of morphological structure, part-of-speech tagging, semantic annotation.
• Syntax/Semantics: interfaces between syntax and semantics/formal pragmatics, information structure, scalar implicatures, negative polarity items.
• Phonology: primitives of phonological representation, phonology of German and dialectal varieties.
• Phonetics: interface between phonological/symbolic encoding and phonetic interpretation, manifestation of structural properties in prosody.

Projects:

Current

• LEGO® Audio and Braille Building Instructions

Previous (selection)

• ATLANTIS -- ArTificial Language uNdersTanding In robotS
• MLT4MLV - Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties
• MAGNIFICENT - Multifaceted Analysis of News Articles for Intelligent User- and Context-Sensitive Presentation
• VSDS - Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis - see also the VSDS project homepage
• Creative Histories: The Josefsplatz Experience

Publications:

Links:

• Our Talking Clock Demo from the VSDS project
• Our Speech Synthesis Demo from the VSDS project
• Our Machine Translation Demo: Standard German > Viennese Dialect from the MLT4MLV project
• Materialien zur Übung: Einführung in die Grammatiktheorie [SS 2008]

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