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Test TubesComputational linguistics research is the fourth branch of FieldCo's activities.  Since the company was founded by a former PhD candidate in natural language processing, it's normal that we'd have a growing list of research projects.  Specifically, our work focuses on speech synthesis, intonation, bare nouns, and mass/count distinction in both Spanish and English. 

If your business requires computational linguistics expertise, FieldCo can help.  Send us an email or better yet, give us a call - we would be happy to learn more about your requirements.

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Below is a list of articles and presentations we've been working on.  To download a complete article, send us an email and we'd be happy to forward it to you.

Refereed Publications

  • Field, Mike. 2011. A Computational Method for Predicting Bare Nouns in Peninsular Spanish. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Forthcoming.
  • Field, Mike. 2009. Speech Synthesis and Spanish Intonation: The Effects of Peak Alignment on the Perception of Sentence Type. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. 3(10), 117-124.

Conference Presentations

  • “Fiction and Rhetoric in the Introspective Writing of Vaslav Nijinsky, Italo Svevo and Giuseppe Berto" at the Sixth International Conference on the Arts in Society, at the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany, May 9, 2011.
  • “A Decision Tree Model of Bare Nouns in Peninsular Spanish" at the Fifth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, August 2, 2010.
  • “Speech Synthesis and Spanish Intonation: The Effects of Peak Alignment on the Perception of Sentence Type" at the Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, at the Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, July 22, 2008. (Virtual presentation)
  • "Null Determiners in Spanish: A Statistical Analysis" at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Symposium at the University of Toronto, March 14, 2008.

Research Grants

  • Travel Research Grant, 2005, University of Toronto