Computer Speech & Language, Volume 68

Volume 68, July 2021

Special Issue on Natural Language Generation

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  Deyu Zhou, Meng Zhang, Yang Yang, Yulan He:
  Hierarchical state recurrent neural network for social emotion ranking. 101177

Regular Papers

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  Petr Cerva, Lukás Mateju, Jindrich Zdánský, Radek Safarík, Jan Nouza:
  Identification of related languages from spoken data: Moving from off-line to on-line scenario. 101180

Special Issue on Speech & Dementia – Automatic Screening for Dementia from Spoken Communication

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  Weirui Kong, Hyeju Jang, Giuseppe Carenini, Thalia Shoshana Field:
  Exploring neural models for predicting dementia from language. 101181

Regular Papers

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  Jianfeng Deng, Lianglun Cheng, Zhuowei Wang:
  Attention-based BiLSTM fused CNN with gating mechanism model for Chinese long text classification. 101182

Special Issue on Natural Language Generation

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  Nikolaos Panagiaris, Emma Hart, Dimitra Gkatzia:
  Generating unambiguous and diverse referring expressions. 101184

Regular Papers

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  Jiandun Li, Pengpeng Zhang, Liu Yang:
  An unsupervised approach to detect review spam using duplicates of images, videos and Chinese texts. 101186
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  Bushra Alhijawi, Arafat Awajan:
  Novel textual entailment technique for the Arabic language using genetic algorithm. 101194

Special Issue on Speech & Dementia – Automatic Screening for Dementia from Spoken Communication

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  Claudia Frankenberg, Jochen Weiner, Maren Knebel, Ayimunishagu Abulimiti, Pablo Toro, Christina J. Herold, Tanja Schultz, Johannes Schröder:
  Verbal fluency in normal aging and cognitive decline: Results of a longitudinal study. 101195

Regular Papers

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  Jingxiang Hu, Junjie Peng, Wenqiang Zhang, Lizhe Qi, Miao Hu, Huanxiang Zhang:
  An intention multiple-representation model with expanded information. 101196
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  Ning Gong, Nianmin Yao, Ziying Lv, Shibin Wang:
  GEPC: Global embeddings with PID control. 101197

Special Issue on State-of-the-art Handcrafted Feature Extraction for Speech and Voice Analysis

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  Edward L. Campbell, Raúl Yañez Mesía, Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo:
  Paralinguistic and linguistic fluency features for Alzheimer's disease detection. 101198

Regular Papers

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  Arindam Jati, Chin-Cheng Hsu, Monisankha Pal, Raghuveer Peri, Wael AbdAlmageed, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  Adversarial attack and defense strategies for deep speaker recognition systems. 101199

Special Issue on State-of-the-art Handcrafted Feature Extraction for Speech and Voice Analysis

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  Kamini Sabu, Preeti Rao:
  Prosodic event detection in children's read speech. 101200
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  Xiao-Lei Zhang:
  Deep ad-hoc beamforming. 101201

Regular Papers

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  Hoang-Vu Dang, Phuong Le-Hong:
  A combined syntactic-semantic embedding model based on lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. 101202
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  Jia Fu, Fei He, Heng Yin, Ling He:
  Automatic detection of pharyngeal fricatives in cleft palate speech using acoustic features based on the vocal tract area spectrum. 101203
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  Benjamin Sertolli, Zhao Ren, Björn W. Schuller, Nicholas Cummins:
  Representation transfer learning from deep end-to-end speech recognition networks for the classification of health states from speech. 101204