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my thesis about intonation in spoken language generation

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a list of my publications

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some of the more general software I wrote

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Daeso
Detecting And Exploiting Semantic Overlap; my current projects

NeXTeNS
an open source text to speech system for Dutch; one of my projects

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Induction of Linguistic Knowledge

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A list of my publications.

Scientific publications

  • Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi and Paul van Pelt, Query-based sentence fusion is better defined and leads to more preferred results than generic sentence fusion. Accepted for The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15-20, 2008. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi and Emiel Krahmer, Annotating a parallel monolingual treebank with semantic similarity relations . In: The Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT'07), Bergen, Norway, December 7-8, 2007. [pdf]
  • Antal van den Bosch, Erwin Marsi and Abdelhadi Soudi. Tagging of Arabic. To appear in: Soudi, Abdelhadi; van den Bosch, Antal; Neumann, Günter (Eds.), Arabic Computational Morphology - Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods., Springer, 2007.
  • Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Edwin Commandeur, Reinier Cozijn, Emiel Krahmer and Erwin Marsi. The Online Evaluation of Speech Synthesis using Eye Movements. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007, pp. 1346-1349.[pdf]
  • Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Edwin Commandeur, Reinier Cozijn, Emiel Krahmer and Erwin Marsi. The Online Evaluation of Speech Synthesis using Eye Movements. In: Proceedings of the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, Germnay, 2007, pp. 385-390.[pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer and Wauter Bosma. Dependency-based paraphrasing for recognizing textual entailment. In: Proceedings of ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, Prague, June 2007, pp 83-88.[pdf]
  • Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, Atanas Chanev, Gülsen Eryigit, Sandra Kübler, Svetoslav Marinov and Erwin Marsi. MaltParser: A language-independent system for data-driven dependency parsing. Natural Language Engineering, 13(2), June 2007, pp 95-135.
  • M. Theune, B. van Schooten, R. op den Akker, W. Bosma, D. Hofs, A.Nijholt, E. Krahmer, C. van Hooijdonk and E. Marsi Questions, Pictures, Answers: Introducing Pictures in Question-Answering Systems. In: ACTAS-1 of X Symposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social, Centro de Linguistica Aplicade, L. Ruiz Miyarez, A. Munoz Alvarado & C. Alvarez Moreno (eds.), pages 450-463, 22-26 January 2007, Santiago de Cuba. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi and Ferdi van Rooden Expressing Uncertainty with a Talking Head in a Multimodal Question-Answering System. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG 2007), pages 105-116, 25-26 January 2007, Aberdeen, UK. [pdf]
  • Sabine Buchholz and Erwin Marsi CoNLL-X Shared Task on Multilingual Dependency Parsing. In: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-X), pages 149-164, June 2006, New York City. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer, Wauter Bosma, Mariet Theune Normalized alignment of dependency trees for detecting textual entailment. Second PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, April 10-12, 2006, Venice, Italy. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer Explorations in Sentence Fusion. In Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation , pages ?-?, Aberdeen, GB, 8-10 August 2005. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer Classification of semantic relations by humans and machines. In Proceedings of the ACL 2005 workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment, pages ?-?, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2005. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Antal van den Bosch, Abdelhadi Soudi. Memory-based morphological analysis generation and part-of-speech tagging of Arabic. In Proceedings of the ACL 2005 workshop on computational approaches to Semitic languages , pages ?-?, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2005. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi. Optionality in evaluating prosody prediction. In Proceedings of 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop, pages ?-?, Pittsburgh, USA, 2004. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch, Walter Daelemans, and Véronique Hoste. Learning to predict pitch accents and prosodic boundaries in Dutch. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 489-496, Sapporo, Japan, 2003. [pdf]
  • Olga van Herwijnen, Antal van den Bosch, Jacques Terken, and Erwin Marsi. Learning pp attachment for filtering prosodic phrasing. In Proceedings of EACL 2003, 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 139-146, Budapest, 2003. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi, Bertjan Busser, Walter Daelemans, Véronique Hoste, Martin Reynaert, and Antal van den Bosch. Combining information sources for memory-based pitch accent placement. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pages 1273-1276, Denver, Colorado, 2002. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi. Intonation in Spoken Language Generation. LOT, Utrecht, 2001. (Ph.D. thesis) [ps]
  • Erwin Marsi. A reusable syntactic generator for Dutch. In Peter-Arno Coppen, Hans van Halteren, and Lisanne Teunissen, editors, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997. Selected Papers from the Eight CLIN Meeting. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998.
  • Erwin Marsi. Automatic evaluation of intonational phrasing algorithms for Dutch. In Stefan Werner, editor, Nordic Prosody, Proceedings of the VIIth Conference, pages 171-194. Peter Lang, Berlin, 1998.
  • Erwin Marsi. Introducing maximal variation in text planning for small domains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages 68-77, Niagara-on-the-lake, Canada, 1998. [pdf ps ]
  • Esther Grabe, Carlos Gussenhoven, Judith Haan, Erwin Marsi, and Brechtje Post. Preaccentual pitch and speaker attitude in Dutch. Language and Speech, 41(1):63-85, 1998.
  • Erwin Marsi, Peter-Arno Coppen, Carlos Gussenhoven, and Toni Rietveld. Prosodic and intonational domains in speech synthesis . In J. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive, and J. Hirschberg, editors, Progress in Speech Synthesis, pages 477-493. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
  • Esther Grabe, Carlos Gussenhoven, Judith Haan, Erwin Marsi, and Brechtje Post. The meaning of intonation phrase onsets in Dutch. In Proceedings of the ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Intonation, Athens, Greece, 1997.
  • Erwin Marsi. Automatic evaluation of two intonational phrasing algorithms for Dutch. In Tim van der Avoird and Mischa Corsius, editors, Proceeding of the CLS opening Academic Year '96 '97, pages 57-81. Center for Language Studies, 1996.
  • Erwin Marsi. Intonation in a spoken language generator. In H. Strik, N. Oostdijk, C. Cucchiarini, and P.A. Coppen, editors, Proceedings 1995, pages 85-97. University of Nijmegen, Department of Language and Speech, 1995.
  • Erwin Marsi and Peter-Arno Coppen. Syntaxis en fonologie: de relatie tussen syntactische structuur en intonationale domeinen.Gramma-TTT, 4(2):153-167, 1995.
  • Erwin Marsi, Peter-Arno Coppen, Carlos Gussenhoven, and Toni Rietveld. Prosodic and intonational domains in speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 2nd ESCA/IEEE/AAAI Workshop on Text-To-Speech Synthesis, New Paltz, 1994.

Popular scientific publications

  • Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi en Lilian Beijer, Taaltechnologie voor mensen met communicatieve beperkingen: een optie? In: DIXIT, Tijdschrift over Toegepaste Taal- en Spraaktechnologie (Dutch magazine on applied language and speech technology), to appear.
  • Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi, Walter Daelemans, Maarten de Rijke, Jakub Zavrel. Hetzelfde, maar dan anders: Semantische overlap detecteren en gebruiken (DAESO). In: DIXIT, Tijdschrift over Toegepaste Taal- en Spraaktechnologie (Dutch magazine on applied language and speech technology), 4(2), December 2006, p. 18. [pdf]
  • Mariet Theune, Emiel Krahmer, Wauter Bosma, Erwin Marsi en Charlotte van Hooijdonk. Antwoordpresentatie in een QA-systeem: Mag het ietsje meer zijn? DIXIT, tijdschrift over toegepaste taal- en spraaktechnologie (Dutch magazine on applied language and speech technology), 4(1):12-15, June 2006.
  • Erwin Marsi. Prosodische Annotatie van het CGN. LINK (Tijdschrift voor de linguïstiek te Utrecht), 14(1), 2002. [pdf]
  • Erwin Marsi. Taalmythen[2]: `De ene taal wordt sneller gesproken dan de andere' . Onze Taal, 68:190-193, juli/augustus 1999.